Author: Greta De Jong
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807853795
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Using a wide range of sources, the author illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance in the early 20th century and the mass protests of the 50s and 60s.
Author: Greta de Jong
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860107
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Examining African Americans' struggles for freedom and justice in rural Louisiana during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras, Greta de Jong illuminates the connections between the informal strategies of resistance that black people pursued in the early twentieth century and the mass protests that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. Using evidence drawn from oral histories and a wide range of other sources, she demonstrates that rural African Americans were politically aware and active long before civil rights organizers arrived in the region in the 1960s to encourage voter registration and demonstrations against segregation. De Jong explores the numerous, often-subtle methods African Americans used to resist oppression within the confines of the Jim Crow system. Such everyday forms of resistance included developing strategies for educating black children, creating strong community institutions, and fighting back against white violence. In the wake of the economic changes that swept the South during and after World War II, these activities became more open and organized, culminating in voter registration drives and other protests conducted in cooperation with civil rights workers. Deeply researched and accessibly written, A Different Day spotlights the ordinary heroes of the freedom struggle and offers a new perspective on black activism throughout the twentieth century.
Author: Vannessa Beach
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483652963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Our President was in peace talks with Russia but Russia had no intention to be at peace with the Americans. Our government agreed to buy their new, very expensive Army engines specifically designed to work in our tanks, they planned to sweeten the deal by allowing us to test ten jet wings which they called The Bird. Truly they gave us the bird when all of the tanks blew up along with the ten jets with their bombs simultaneously dropping; killed 80% of American men. The women that were left dried their eyes and picked up their dead and buried them. Knoxville ignited the most giving that America has ever seen, they buried their dead for freeno fees whatsoever. Knoxville adopted everyone killed. Kaylou Snyder is thrust into a lucrative marketing business that her husband Tommy, and his two friends Terry and Bob had and she was unaware of. Since all three perished she suddenly was CEO of Millers Marketing and Licensing Company. With her having no knowledge of being CEO of the boring business she quickly sold it. Deciding that she liked being a CEO she decided to open up her own business. Since money now, no longer was a problem she rented men for ANY service. It started out being the labor that men normally do; men grew tired of being used as tools then revolted. Finding herself with no inventory seemingly ends the story, but Terry Millers 17 year old son was found to be working at Rent-A-Man. Sasha has a sheriff serve Kaylou a summons for court. Kaylou had no knowledge that the 17 year old is actually Terry Millers son.
Author: Angela Johnson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 068987376X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
Author: Juliet Van Heerden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942923060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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People affected by a loved one's addiction suffer silently in church pews. I was one of them. I'm Juliet. Sometimes I wish I could be someone else, with another name altogether, someone whose life is more comedy than tragedy. During the twelve years I was married to a cocaine-addicted Christian, I was overwhelmed with isolation and shame as I sat next to my ex-husband in church week after week. No one fathomed our family skeletons. How could I tell anyone? God stirred my spirit to seek personal healing and give voice to my reality. Through Him, I found freedom from silence and redemption for the life dreams I thought were forever lost. Same Dress, Different Day: A Spiritual Memoir of Addiction and Redemption chronicles my journey from victim to victor as I struggled to break free from codependency's suffocating cycle. I learned to see my Savior as the soul mate and provider my chemically dependent spouse could never be. God's healing grace is not only for the addicted, but also for the broken ones who love them.
Author: Yvette Grove
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945507021
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Lily wishes she could be like everyone else and she gets her wish, EVERYTHING is the same! Through the help of friends she discover the deliciousness of being different.
Author: Annette Laing
Publisher: Confusion Press
ISBN:
Category : Crystal Palace (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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When you wake up in the year 1851 on a Scottish hillside ... or down an English coal mine ... or in a field on a Southern plantation, you know you're in for a lousy day. No day has been normal for Hannah and Alex Dias since they moved from San Francisco to the little town of Snipesville, Georgia. Bad enough that they and their dorky new friend Brandon Clark became reluctant time-travelers to World War Two England. Now things are about to get worse. Much worse. From the cotton fields of the slave South, to the poorest slums of Victorian Scotland, to London's glittering Crystal Palace, the kids chase a twenty-first century gadget through the mid-nineteenth century. Finding it is only the beginning of what they must do to save two beloved places from destruction, and heal a wound in Time. --Publisher description.
Author: Chanelle Criqui-Anderson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387654454
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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This collection of poems deals with the topic of suicide. The poems range from relating the thoughts people, particularly tweens and teens, may have as they navigate through personal and social challenges of today, to inspiration and motivation for pushing through. The poems remind the reader that we are not alone in our various personal challenges or moments of despair. The tone of the book is hopeful, that life is beautiful and there are countless reasons to persevere and find our joy.
Author: Anna-Lisa Lundqvist
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3755463296
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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This day we follow grandma who is a babysitter, Santa who wants to celebrate Christmas in the summer, dad who wants to do everything the other way around, the manager of the grocery store who wants to do things differently, the teatcher who hants to be a student ant the two neighbors who wants ice skating. How will this end? A short book with a fun stories fore children.
Author: Danuta Hadusek
Publisher: Danuta Hadusek
ISBN: 0994167512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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This ‘Bowdlerised’ version of a country club kitchen managed by a husband and wife team while raising a family in a select New South Wales town does not expose too many dramas that occur in the catering trade, just the ‘Jaunty Jargon’ that made life bearable in the ‘Sweat Box’. Recounting living proof that one either immerses oneself into this trade both mentally and wholeheartedly or one, or two, will go mental and lose heart during this 7-day-a-week occupation over 26 years. The composition of menu themes, styles and costs that changed over this period of time are the integral part of this book while ‘Belief in the System’ keeps you focused on the changing social values until such a time that closure was reached. This is my fictional fable flashback of ideology with an occasional spoonerism insert to protect the sensitive ear. From these encounters of the memorable kind, I learned that ‘I was free to BE and the world to see - But the key for me, was ‘busy BEE!’
