Author: Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Author: Rilla Askew
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101200219
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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“A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families – one white, one Black – whose lives are woven together and then shattered” (The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Oil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop for this riveting novel about one of the worst incidents of violence in American history. Althea Whiteside, an oil-wildcatter’s high-strung white wife, and her enigmatic Black maid, Graceful, share a complex connection during the tense days of the Oklahoma oil rush. Their juxtaposing stories – and those of others close to them – unfold as tensions mount to a violent climax in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, during which whites burned the city’s prosperous Black neighborhood to the ground. The massacre becomes the crucible that melds and tests each of the character in this masterful exploration of the American race story and the ties that bind us irrevocably to one another.

Author: André Jerome Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780893287238
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Renowned choral conductor and educator Andr J. Thomas has crafted a book that the conductor of any choral ensemble-be it church, high school, university, or professional-will want close at hand when preparing to program any concert spiritual. Understanding the Spiritual, the first of the book's two sections, includes an exploration of the beginnings of the spiritual, its role in society and its transition into art music. Issues of interpretation-text, diction, rhythm and tempo-are addressed in the second section, Performing the Spiritual. In addition to interviews with noted conductors Dr. Anton Armstrong and Prof. Judith Willoughby as to matters of performance and selection, the centerpiece of this section is Dr. Thomas's personal reflections on several spiritual arrangements, including his rehearsal techniques (with specific examples and measure-number references to the included scores), as well as an insightful look into his decisions of interpretation.

Author: Lonnie Coleman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Mary Lee Settle
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1643362321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet—Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom—is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnny Church's descendants as they leave England in search of freedom and land. One of those descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in the backcountry of Virginia, where he battles both Native Americans and white frontier bandits and builds the beginning of a flourishing estate named Beulah. The novel closes shortly before the commencement of the Revolutionary War, with Lacey elected to the House of Burgesses and his family line firmly established in what is to become the state of West Virginia.

Author: Frank Olalde
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532087519
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Beula Parker is a fictional character although working as a domestic servant she is highly educated and wealthy but how? Beulah Parker comes from a line of head strong women retelling her experiences, from the slave days, civil rights movement to living amongst Houston’s elite. views of life and the people she encounters. Based on true historical facts, events, places and true personalities. This is prose in narrative of the way life and human conduct could be, to do good to be generous and to be of honorable character. Warning of the pitfalls and consequences of human frailties, and temptations. The consequences of not considering failure, as well as the many ways to empower those in need of empowerment through generosity, guidance and example.

Author: Rita Dove
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University Press
ISBN: 9780887480218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 79

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Collects poems that tell a fictionalized version of the lives of the authors's maternal grandparents.

Author: Lonnie Coleman
Publisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780099187707
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Axel Nissen
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476681880
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Best known for her roles in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, and Make Way for Tomorrow, Beulah Bondi (1889-1981) had a 60-year long acting career and an interesting on-screen life. Despite starting her professional acting career at 30, she made her mark on the film industry as a character actress. Before making a name for herself on-screen, she worked at the Stuart Walker stock company and performed on Broadway. This biography is the first to unpack Bondi's life before and throughout her film career. This work also explores Bondi's early family life in Indiana with a Jewish underwear salesman and a Presbyterian poet for parents.

Author: Mary Lee Settle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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During the English Civil War a young man joins Cromwell's Parliamentary Army to escape his humorless father only to find betrayal and tragedy in Ireland. Based on a true incident.