LibGuides: Duchess Harris Collection at Capital City PCS: Protest Movements

About Freedom's Promise:

From saving the environment to protecting human rights, protest movements have led the way for change throughout US history. Each movement features landmark events and is driven by influential people and ideas. Protest Movements looks at important US movements from the past and today. Learn about how these movements started and how they continue to shape the country.

Recommended for Middle Grades.

Women's Suffrage by Duchess Harris
Call Number: 324.623
ISBN: 1532113994
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
Women in many parts of the United States were not allowed to vote until 1920. Women's Suffrage discusses the history of women's voting rights, how women campaigned for full voting rights across the country, and how their efforts led to gains in equality for women in other areas as well.
Political Resistance in the Current Age by Myra Faye Turner; Duchess Harris
Call Number: 909.83 HAR
ISBN: 1532113986
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
Modern presidents face resistance from a split nation. Political Resistance in the Current Age covers movements that resisted recent presidential administrations from George W. Bush to Donald Trump, what inspired the movements, and the change they brought about.
Environmental Protests by Duchess Harris
Call Number: 333.72 HAR
ISBN: 1532113978
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
As people began to see how pollution and industry could damage the environment, they began to seek change. Environmental Protests explores the research that revealed how common practices harmed the environment, the events people held to raise awareness, and the tactics protesters use to protect nature and change laws.
Civil Rights Sit-Ins by Duchess Harris
Call Number: 323.119 HAR
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
The civil rights sit-ins sparked the larger civil rights movement, inspiring many people to protest racial inequality. Civil Rights Sit-Ins discusses how the United States' history of slavery and segregation led people to make a change, how the sit-ins began to make businesses available to all, and how the protests changed the laws of a nation.
Boston Tea Party by Duchess Harris
Call Number: 973.311 HAR
ISBN: 1532113951
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
The Boston Tea Party marked the beginning of the American colonies' break from British rule and would go on to inspire future protest movements. Boston Tea Party reveals why British laws prompted the event, how it led to the American Revolutionary War, and what later movements borrowed from the colonist's protest.
Black Lives Matter by Duchess Harris
Call Number: 305.896 HAR
Publication Date: 2017-12-15
Recommended for Middle Grades.
What started as a hashtag in 2013 quickly grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter examines the police shootings that fueled the movement, the events that led up to racial tensions in the United States, and the goals the movement has set for the future.