CURATED MICRO-COLLECTIONS: KICKING A AND TAKING NAMES!

Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known.

The essays contained in this two-volume set explore misogyny within various areas of American culture to demonstrate its pervasiveness and identify common foundations of its many presentations. Beyond a basic definition of misogyny, which includes hatred of women and girls and the ways in which this hatred and distrust influences action, speech, discrimination, policy, and culture in the United States, this project also aims to expand and complicate definitions of misogyny in order to provide readers with a robust introduction to and understanding of the larger topic.

The story tells the story of her life growing up in the south in the early 1900s when racism and segregation was law. Segregation laws kept African Americans from living in certain areas, having certain jobs, and going to certain schools. Life was difficult for Rosa and her family, but through hard work and determination, Rosa, with the help of her husband, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and many many other activists, was able to make great change in the lives of African Americans everywhere.

The turbulent relationship of Ike and Tina Turner eventually forces Tina to leave and find the courage to believe in herself.