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x, 616 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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1 of 1	Gunnison Non Fiction	323.092 Bid
1 of 1	Pitkin County Library	323.092 B584

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2010

Temple University Press

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Chronicles the life of African-American educator, intellectual, and civil rights leader Octavius Valentine Catto, who was shot and killed in election-day violence in Philadelphia in 1871.

2) The framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal

Author:

O'Connor, J. Patrick

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2008

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English

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2008	Hoopla	Chicago Review Press	1 online resource (256 pages)	Available Online Online Hoopla Collection	More Info Check Out Hoopla

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3) Peaceable kingdom lost: the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment

Mumia Abu-Jamalthe most famous death-row inmate in the United Stateswas sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing police officer Daniel Faulkner. Using the preponderance of evidence to establish that Faulkner shot Abu-Jamal as he approached him and that a passenger in Abu-Jamal's brother's car, Kenneth Freeman, then killed Faulkner, this study convincingly shows how the Philadelphia Police Department and District Attorney's Office framed...

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Kenny, Kevin, 1960-

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2009

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English

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viii, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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1 of 1	ASU Main (3rd floor)	F152 .K29 2009

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2009

Oxford University Press

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4) The school I deserve: six young refugees and their fight for equality in America

William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of Ulster extraction, began to encroach on Indian land...

Author:

Napolitano, Jo, 1976-

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[2021]

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English

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1 of 1	MCPLD Central Non-Fiction	371.826 N216s

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[2021]

Beacon Press

xi, 206 pages ; 24 cm

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5) Columbia rising: civil life on the upper Hudson from the Revolution to the age of Jackson

"Uncovers the key civil rights battle that immigrant children fought alongside the ACLU to ensure equal access to education within a xenophobic nation"--

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Brooke, John L.

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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Williamsburg Virginia

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[2010]

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English

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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press

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1 of 1	CMU Main Books 3rd Floor	F127.C8 B76 2010

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xiii, 629 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 25 cm

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