A comprehensive, historical, easily accessible reference on all minority groups. Ever since the Dominican missionary Bartolm- de Las Casas (1476-1566) first raised civil and minority rights in an American context, these questions have figured prominently among some of the most profound and trying moments in American history. With 725 engagingly written alphabetically arranged entries, each thoroughly cross-referenced, Minority Rights in America explores the American civil rights experience since 1492. Entries include: [yen] Biographical sketches of important historical figures [yen] Important topics, organizations, and events [yen] Supreme Court cases, federal laws, and governmental agencies. Sample of encyclopedic entries: Jane Addams, Affirmative action, AIDS and rights, Antisemitism, Ross Barnett, Bonus Army, Chicano studies, Shirley Chisholm, Clayton Act, Congress of Racial, Equality (CORE), Conscientious objectors, Crazy Horse, Defense of Marriage Act, Employment at will, Medgar Evers, Farm labor rights, Orval Faubus, Gerrymandering, Gray Panthers, Angelina Grimke, Haymarket Riot, J. Edgar Hoover, Langston Hughes, Indian Citizenship Act, Japanese internment, Jim Crow laws, Bartolom- de Las Casas, Loving v. Virginia, Megan’s Law, Million Man March, Ralph Nader, National Immigration, Project Nativism, William Penn, Puritan Separatist, Rap music, Right to die, Margaret Sanger, Smokers’ rights, Southern Governors, Association Trail of Tears, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Harold Washington, Youth Law Center, John Peter Zenger