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Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
by
Elaine Elinson (Goodreads Author),
Stan Yogi
Paperback, 498 pages
Published
October 1st 2009
by Heyday Books
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At a literary faire in San Francisco, Elaine Elinson read an excerpt that described how a San Franciscan "Rosa Parks" beat the segregation that characterized the early 1900s transportation system. Because of it, I bought the book.
Things I liked: I really enjoy how this book takes the reader through the civil rights battles that defined and continue to affect the state of California. Each chapter covers a certain topic, like race, gender, sexuality, free speech. And each chapter is filled with bi...more
Things I liked: I really enjoy how this book takes the reader through the civil rights battles that defined and continue to affect the state of California. Each chapter covers a certain topic, like race, gender, sexuality, free speech. And each chapter is filled with bi...more
I am simultaneously reading this book and Kevin Starr's "Americans and the California Dream: 1850 - 1915. Both are great California history books, but I think are better appreciated with a grounding in the basic timeline and rendition of historical events. "Wherever there's a fight" focuses on civil liberties (as per its title and the author's background w/ the ACLU). This is the "People's History of Calif." I was already knowledgeable about most of the events from my decades long submersion in...more
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Stan and Elaine did an amazing job synthesizing historical and contemporary sources for a fascinating topic. Civil liberties have always been a hot topic in California from the Spanish missions to today! Very proud of both authors!!
I'm halfway through this. I'm reading it to get to know more about the area that I have chosen to move to and make a home in. Learning history was always a challenge for me, I get easily bored, but the stories in here are interesting enough and the way that I can make connections between what's in the text to what's in front of my face as I move about San Francisco is impressive to me. For example, I was in Sonoma last weekend and there was a mission with displays referring to the Bear Flag Revo...more
Well-written, easy to read style, but subject matter is hard to read --- the story of early racism in CA is hard to stomach. Ir ead about 40 pages.
Amazing photos inside...
An excellent untold history of California. Great information to fill in the many gaps from my formal education in this state.
Incredible detail in this book - a must for anybody who wants to understand California history or the complexity of the battle for civil rights. Well-written.
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Elaine Elinson was the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News for more than two decades. Wherever There's a Fight is the winner of a Gold Medal from the California Book Awards and a Bronze Medal from the Foreword Book of the Year Awards. She is a coauthor of Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines, which was banned by the Marcos regime...more
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