The Scientific Monthly, Volume LVI, Number 3, Whole Number 330, March 1943
Washington, DC: Am. Assoc. for Adv. of Sci. 1943. 97, wraps, illus., figures, tables, covers somewhat soiled, small tears to cover edges, small tear at front hinge. More
Washington, DC: Am. Assoc. for Adv. of Sci. 1943. 97, wraps, illus., figures, tables, covers somewhat soiled, small tears to cover edges, small tear at front hinge. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xix, 245 pages. illus., maps. 21 cm. Index. Signed by the author. Ben W. Gilbert (born February 10, 1918, died February 28, 2007) was a journalist, editor, activist, and author. Gilbert completed a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1939. Gilbert was a city hall reporter in St. Louis, Missouri, before finding work as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1941. where he rose through the ranks to city editor in 1945 and deputy managing editor in 1964. Gilbert was deeply concerned about issues such as racism, corruption, and poverty, focusing his editorial work on exposing these problems. His work on investigating corruption in the Washington, DC, police department led to a U.S. Senate investigation in the early 1950s, and in 1968 he urged greater coverage of the civil rights movement and race riots. Regarding the latter, Gilbert edited and helped to write Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968 (1968). He left the Washington Post as associate editor in 1970. For the next year, he was editor of the television news program Newsroom, the forerunner of Newshour with Jim Lehrer. He then worked in the Washington, DC, mayor's office as director of planning and management. This was a key role as control of the nation's capital transitioned from federal to local government for the first time. More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. Presumed first paperback edition/first printing. Trade paperback. xix, [1], 245, [5] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix I and II. Index. Ben W. Gilbert (born February 10, 1918, died February 28, 2007) was a journalist, editor, activist, and author. Gilbert completed a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1939. Gilbert was a city hall reporter in St. Louis, Missouri, before finding work as a reporter with the Washington Post in 1941. where he rose through the ranks to city editor in 1945 and deputy managing editor in 1964. Gilbert was deeply concerned about issues such as racism, corruption, and poverty, focusing his editorial work on exposing these problems. His work on investigating corruption in the Washington, DC, police department led to a U.S. Senate investigation in the early 1950s, and in 1968 he urged greater coverage of the civil rights movement and race riots. Regarding the latter, Gilbert edited and helped to write Ten Blocks from the White House: Anatomy of the Washington Riots of 1968 (1968). He left the Washington Post as associate editor in 1970. For the next year, he was editor of the television news program Newsroom, the forerunner of Newshour with Jim Lehrer. He then worked in the Washington, DC, mayor's office as director of planning and management. This was a key role as control of the nation's capital transitioned from federal to local government for the first time. More
New York: Publishers Company, Inc., 1969. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. xiii, [1], 306 pages. Introduction by Jackie Robinson. Preface by Charles H. Wesley. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is one of the International Library of Negro Life and History. Edwin Bancroft Henderson (November 24, 1883 – February 3, 1977), was an African-American educator and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) pioneer. The "Father of Black Basketball," introduced basketball to African Americans in Washington, D.C. in 1904, and was Washington's first male African American physical education teacher. From 1926 until his retirement in 1954, Henderson served as director of health and physical education for Washington's black schools. Henderson taught physical education to African Americans and organized athletic activities in Washington, D.C. Henderson helped organize the Fairfax County branch of the NAACP and served as President of the Virginia NAACP in the 1950s. More
London: SAGE Publications, Ltd., 1996. 96, wraps, map, footnotes, index, some wear and soiling to covers, pencil erasure on title page. More
San Francisco, CA: Synthesis Publications, 1981. 28 cm, 151, wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers. More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. 255, notes, index, some edge soiling, black line on bottom edge Why do American parents feel they no longer control the raising of their children? To what degree does parental influence compete with television, day-care centers, schools, and peer groups? And what is the effect of radical changes in family pattern--both parents working, fewer children, a rising divorce rate, single parents trying to support a family? The Carnegie Council on Children responds to these questions in this hard- hitting report on the social and economic crises that American families are now living through. Their provocative findings and their recommendations for a national family policy have become the subject of wide debate. All Our Children is a book that must be read by everyone who wants to restore the traditional primacy of the family in American life. More
Santa Barbara. CA: The Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution, 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 16 pages including covers. Rare surviving copy. Some wear and soiling noted. Among those associated with this Ad Hoc Committee are: Tom Hayden, Robert Heilbroner, Irving Howe, Gunnar Myrdal, Linus Pauling, Gerard Piel, Bayard Rustin, and Norman Thomas. "The Triple Revolution" was an open memorandum sent to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and other government figures on March 22, 1964. Drafted under the auspices of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, it was signed by an array of noted social activists, professors, and technologists who identified themselves as the Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution. The chief initiator of the proposal was W. H. "Ping" Ferry, at that time a vice-president of CSDI, basing it in large part on the ideas of the futurist Robert Theobald. The statement identified three revolutions underway in the world: the cybernation revolution of increasing automation; the weaponry revolution of mutually assured destruction; and the human rights revolution. It discussed primarily the cybernation revolution. The committee claimed that machines would usher in "a system of almost unlimited productive capacity" while continually reducing the number of manual laborers needed, and increasing the skill needed to work, thereby producing increasing levels of unemployment. It proposed that the government should ease this transformation through large-scale public works, low-cost housing, public transit, electrical power development, income redistribution, union representation for the unemployed, and government restraint on technology deployment. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1978. 24 cm, 210, wraps, maps, label on front page. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1982. 24 cm, 1048, wraps, illus., figures, tables, footnotes, references, appendices, small chips to top and bottom edges of spine. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1998. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 408, wraps, illus. Also transmits the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. iv, 1580 pages. Illustrations. Occasional footnotes. Serial No. 109-70. Format is approximately 5.75 inches by 9.25 inches. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is the first of a series of hearings that the Subcommittee planned to hold examining the Voting Rights Act, also known as the VRA. It had been 25 years since Congress last extended the number of the temporary provisions of the VRA. Six provisions were scheduled to expire in 2007, including sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 203. These hearings will examine the impact of the Voting Rights Act over the last several decades and its continued role in protecting minority voting rights. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Serial No. 109-103. 4 volume set. Volume I, v, [1], 1453, [5] pages. Volume II, v, [1]. 1455-2388, [2]. Volume III, v, [1], 2389-4296. Volume IV, v, [1], 4297-5711, [3] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. The Subcommittee will be holding its tenth hearing examining the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the temporary provisions that are to expire. They're set to expire in 2007 unless we reauthorize by Congress, which I think most of us anticipate will occur. The Subcommittee examined each of the expiring provisions in great detail. This afternoon, we examine the evidence of continued discrimination against racial and language minority citizens since 1982 that have been compiled by a number of non-governmental organizations who will be testifying. I'd thank these organizations for the time and effort that they have put into completing these reports and in making sure that this Committee and Congress has before it a complete and accurate record of discrimination over the last 25 years. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Serial No. 109-103. Volume IV ONLY. Volume IV, v, [1], 4297-5711, [3] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. This volume contains the Appendix to Hearings: Table of Contents and Appendix Materials (Continued) from the National Commission on the Voting Rights Act. The Subcommittee will be holding its tenth hearing examining the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the temporary provisions that are to expire. They're set to expire in 2007 unless we reauthorize by Congress, which I think most of us anticipate will occur. The Subcommittee examined each of the expiring provisions in great detail. This afternoon, we examine the evidence of continued discrimination against racial and language minority citizens since 1982 that have been compiled by a number of non-governmental organizations who will be testifying. I'd thank these organizations for completing these reports and in making sure that this Committee has before it a complete and accurate record of discrimination over the last 25 years. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Serial No. 109-103. 3 of 4 volume set. Volume I, v, [1], 1453, [5] pages. Volume II, v, [1]. 1455-2388, [2]. Volume III, v, [1], 2389-4296. Volume IV NOT PRESENT. Footnotes. Illustrations. The Subcommittee will be holding its tenth hearing examining the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the temporary provisions that are to expire. They're set to expire in 2007 unless we reauthorize by Congress, which I think most of us anticipate will occur. The Subcommittee examined each of the expiring provisions in great detail. This afternoon, we examine the evidence of continued discrimination against racial and language minority citizens since 1982 that have been compiled by a number of non-governmental organizations who will be testifying. I'd thank these organizations for the time and effort that they have put into completing these reports and in making sure that this Committee and Congress has before it a complete and accurate record of discrimination over the last 25 years. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Serial No. 109-83. Part I ONLY. Volume I, iv, 1446, [22] pages. This Committee will focus on section 203, the provision authorizing bilingual language assistance to American citizens who are members of covered language minority groups and who have limited English proficiency. Section 203 has not been revisited by Congress since 1992 and, like the sections that we have discussed in previous hearings, is set to expire in 2007, unless reauthorized. The Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965 in response to a history of racial discrimination against some of our Nation's citizens. In 1975, Congress expanded the Voting Rights Act to include section 203 and its companion, section 4(f). Section 203 requires certain jurisdictions to provide bilingual election assistance—including notices, instructions, information, and ballots—to citizens who are members of a designated language minority group and who have limited English proficiency. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Serial No. 109-79. Two volumes. Volume I, v, [1], 1684, [6] pages, Volume II, v, [1], 1685-3375 pages. During this hearing, Representative John Lewis, of Georgia, stated "The Voting Rights Act helped expand our democracy and open up our democracy to elect hundreds of thousands and millions of our citizens who had been kept out, let them in. The Voting Rights Act was needed then, and it is needed now. The purpose of section 5 is very unique and very important. It prevents discriminatory plans from being enacted in the first place. It put the burden on the judiciary to show that the plan does not discriminate against minority voters. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Serial No. 109-79. Volume I ONLY. Volume I, v, [1], 1684, [6] pages. During this hearing, Representative John Lewis, of Georgia, stated "The Voting Rights Act helped expand our democracy and open up our democracy to elect hundreds of thousands and millions of our citizens who had been kept out, let them in. The Voting Rights Act was needed then, and it is needed now. The purpose of section 5 is very unique and very important. It prevents discriminatory plans from being enacted in the first place. It put the burden on the judiciary to show that the plan does not discriminate against minority voters. More
Albany, NY: SUNY, 1970. 28 cm, 247, wraps, illus., facsims., music, lower corner of front cover creased with portion missing. More