Community action against racism in West Las Vegas : the F Street wall and the women who brought it down /

This book chronicles Robert J. McKee's active participation in a successful protest action, led primarily by black females in the historically African American community of West Las Vegas, Nevada, from 2008-2013. The residents protested the closure of a main street (F Street) in their community...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McKee, Robert J., 1951-
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham : Lexington Books, [2014]
Subjects:	Women > Political activity > Nevada > West Las Vegas. Women civil rights workers > Nevada > West Las Vegas. Racism > Nevada > West Las Vegas. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference. Racism > Nevada > West Las Vegas. West Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nev.) > Social conditions. Women > Political activity > Nevada > West Las Vegas. Women civil rights workers > Nevada > West Las Vegas. West Las Vegas (Las Vegas, Nev.) > Social conditions. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Be careful, it's the westside
Welcome to historic West Las Vegas
Women shouldn't be doing that sort of thing
They want to wall you off
Mayor Goodman, tear down this wall!
A horrible waste of money
Symbolic meanings of physical boundaries
And the wall came tumbling down.