Summary Of Wherever There's A Fight By Elaine Yogi

Wherever There’s a Fight by Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, is a book that narrows down the struggles of man and woman of all colors to protect and extend their civil rights liberties. It provides stories of events in history that marked the lives of many people.The stories described in the book show how many people were being discriminated for the way they looked, the disability they had, their sexualaty for being black, latino, or Japanese. It gives the reader an image of all the injustices and struggles many of these people had to go through to fight for their civil rights. The author of the book begins from the start of early California to where it becomes a state it mentions the Bear Flag Revolt, and how after the Mexican American war …show more content…
On how many of the affected people by the discrimination they were leaving in were fighting for their rights. The writer provides stories such like Charlotte Brown in chapter four Brown is an African American who was forced to get off a Railroad car by the driver when she refused to do it herself. Brown sued the Railroad car and the excuse that was used in court by the Omnibus Railroad for doing that, was that racial segregation was necessary to protect the white woman passengers and their children who were probably fearful of being seated next to an African American. This was not the only case that happened there was a second event that happened where Mary Ellen Pleasant another African America in 1866 experience the same issue as Brown did. Where she was force to get off the Railroad car like Brown did, Pleasant sued and won the case. But even though the case was won and the high court ruled streetcar exclusion was unlawful, African Americans would still end up walking to their jobs and home because the Railroad cars would not wait for them. These example from the book gives an idea of the kind of struggles African Americans were facing. I also want to share an example from Ch. 11 where the reader could see more events that affected African Americans, like the one that occurred in San Diego Ca, where an …show more content…
The people with disabilities didn’t have much rights in the 1950s, the story of Ed Roberts shows his struggles on trying to pursue his education. Ed was being discriminated for the disability he had. Before he became disable Ed was an athletic, who lost mobility of the left side of his body as a result of poliovirus. Ed did not have the same equal rights as the students without a disability, he face discrimination for his incapacity but didn’t give up on his education. He applied to several Universities and was accepted into UC Berkeley which did not know of the condition Ed had when he was accepted. The university was not prepared to have someone like Ed there, so they did not know where to placed him until Dr. Henry, a physician at the university’s medical facility said Ed was able to live there. This marked a change for people with disabilities. After a few years of fighting for their equal rights the university finally created a program that would helped them find attendants, personal counseling, campus orientations, transportation, financial advising, pre-registration and accessible places to live in. this another great example of struggle, hope, defeat and victory for the people with disabilities that want to pursue their education to higher