Author: R. T. Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643508467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This story will open your eyes to a moral outrage that has never been disclosed in print before. Well researched and thoroughly documented, this narrative is must reading for those who want a deeper understanding of how different rules applied for black farmers in Freestone county, Texas. ************************* The Civil War should have been the end of racial injustice for blacks in America. However, many black farmers in Freestone and Anderson County, Texas tragically experienced sustained injustice as their land along the Trinity River was ripped from them in the name of blatant greed. Theft of land is what happened, and the coverup has endured for over 100 years. Their descendants are still dealing with the aftermath of that legalized theft. Colored River reveals a timeline of events of collusion, deception, and fraud that victimized and destroyed many black families. While using Jim Crow laws and the legal justice system as cover, a corrupt cabal of lawyers, con men, and judges, systematically violated the civil and property rights of hundreds of black farmers. Follow the timeline from the beginning of Texas as a Republic to post Civil War times, and witness first hand, the impact of racism, hatred and greed that eventually robbed these families of not only their land, but also their liberty, their future, and their prosperity.
Colored River
Author: R. T. Kennedy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643508467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This story will open your eyes to a moral outrage that has never been disclosed in print before. Well researched and thoroughly documented, this narrative is must reading for those who want a deeper understanding of how different rules applied for black farmers in Freestone county, Texas. ************************* The Civil War should have been the end of racial injustice for blacks in America. However, many black farmers in Freestone and Anderson County, Texas tragically experienced sustained injustice as their land along the Trinity River was ripped from them in the name of blatant greed. Theft of land is what happened, and the coverup has endured for over 100 years. Their descendants are still dealing with the aftermath of that legalized theft. Colored River reveals a timeline of events of collusion, deception, and fraud that victimized and destroyed many black families. While using Jim Crow laws and the legal justice system as cover, a corrupt cabal of lawyers, con men, and judges, systematically violated the civil and property rights of hundreds of black farmers. Follow the timeline from the beginning of Texas as a Republic to post Civil War times, and witness first hand, the impact of racism, hatred and greed that eventually robbed these families of not only their land, but also their liberty, their future, and their prosperity.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781643508467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
This story will open your eyes to a moral outrage that has never been disclosed in print before. Well researched and thoroughly documented, this narrative is must reading for those who want a deeper understanding of how different rules applied for black farmers in Freestone county, Texas. ************************* The Civil War should have been the end of racial injustice for blacks in America. However, many black farmers in Freestone and Anderson County, Texas tragically experienced sustained injustice as their land along the Trinity River was ripped from them in the name of blatant greed. Theft of land is what happened, and the coverup has endured for over 100 years. Their descendants are still dealing with the aftermath of that legalized theft. Colored River reveals a timeline of events of collusion, deception, and fraud that victimized and destroyed many black families. While using Jim Crow laws and the legal justice system as cover, a corrupt cabal of lawyers, con men, and judges, systematically violated the civil and property rights of hundreds of black farmers. Follow the timeline from the beginning of Texas as a Republic to post Civil War times, and witness first hand, the impact of racism, hatred and greed that eventually robbed these families of not only their land, but also their liberty, their future, and their prosperity.
A Way Into India
Author: Raghubir Singh
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The last project of one of the 20th-century's finest documentary photographers.
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The last project of one of the 20th-century's finest documentary photographers.
Dirty River
Author: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551526018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home." Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Publisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551526018
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home." Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
All Along the River
Author: Magnus Weightman
Publisher: Clavis
ISBN: 9781605375199
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Join this delightful river journey through forests, farms, waterfalls, and harbors.
Publisher: Clavis
ISBN: 9781605375199
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Join this delightful river journey through forests, farms, waterfalls, and harbors.
The Bears of Blue River
Author: Charles Major
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Freedom River
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630831301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
ISBN: 1630831301
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
The River Troll: A Story about Love in Color - Special Color Edition
Author: Rich Théroux
Publisher: Every River Lit
ISBN: 9781988824949
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The River Troll is strange and darkly comic illustrated Y/A novel that features a nameless protagonist we call "friend." Late at night he wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on long walks along a river. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a school teacher.
Publisher: Every River Lit
ISBN: 9781988824949
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The River Troll is strange and darkly comic illustrated Y/A novel that features a nameless protagonist we call "friend." Late at night he wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on long walks along a river. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a school teacher.
The Rock and the River
Author: Kekla Magoon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439153353
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award winner In this “taut, eloquent first novel” (Booklist, starred review), a young Black boy wrestles with conflicting notions of revolution and family loyalty as he becomes involved with the Black Panthers in 1968 Chicago. The Time: 1968 The Place: Chicago For thirteen-year-old Sam, it’s not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older (and best friend), Stick, begins to drift away from him for no apparent reason. And then it happens: Sam finds something that changes everything forever. Sam has always had faith in his father, but when he finds literature about the Black Panthers under Stick’s bed, he’s not sure who to believe: his father or his best friend. Suddenly, nothing feels certain anymore. Sam wants to believe that his father is right: You can effect change without using violence. But as time goes on, Sam grows weary of standing by and watching as his friends and family suffer at the hands of racism in their own community. Sam beings to explore the Panthers with Stick, but soon he’s involved in something far more serious—and more dangerous—than he could have ever predicted. Sam is faced with a difficult decision. Will he follow his father or his brother? His mind or his heart? The rock or the river?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439153353
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award winner In this “taut, eloquent first novel” (Booklist, starred review), a young Black boy wrestles with conflicting notions of revolution and family loyalty as he becomes involved with the Black Panthers in 1968 Chicago. The Time: 1968 The Place: Chicago For thirteen-year-old Sam, it’s not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older (and best friend), Stick, begins to drift away from him for no apparent reason. And then it happens: Sam finds something that changes everything forever. Sam has always had faith in his father, but when he finds literature about the Black Panthers under Stick’s bed, he’s not sure who to believe: his father or his best friend. Suddenly, nothing feels certain anymore. Sam wants to believe that his father is right: You can effect change without using violence. But as time goes on, Sam grows weary of standing by and watching as his friends and family suffer at the hands of racism in their own community. Sam beings to explore the Panthers with Stick, but soon he’s involved in something far more serious—and more dangerous—than he could have ever predicted. Sam is faced with a difficult decision. Will he follow his father or his brother? His mind or his heart? The rock or the river?
What Is a River?
Author: Monika Vaicenavičiene
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN: 9781592702794
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A river is a thread, embroidering our world. This non-fiction picture book brings attention to the rivers that stitch and thread our world together.
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
ISBN: 9781592702794
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A river is a thread, embroidering our world. This non-fiction picture book brings attention to the rivers that stitch and thread our world together.
The Forgotten People
Author: Gary B. Mills
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807155330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced their homes, and private tutors educated their children. Cultured, deeply religious, and highly capable, Cane River's Creoles of color enjoyed economic privileges but led politically constricted lives. Like their white neighbors, they publicly supported the Confederacy and suffered the same depredations of war and political and social uncertainties of Reconstruction. Unlike white Creoles, however, they did not recover amid cycles of Redeemer and Jim Crow politics. First published in 1977, The Forgotten People offers a socioeconomic history of this widely publicized but also highly romanticized community -- a minority group that fit no stereotypes, refused all outside labels, and still struggles to explain its identity in a world mystified by Creolism. Now revised and significantly expanded, this time-honored work revisits Cane River's "forgotten people" and incorporates new findings and insight gleaned across thirty-five years of further research. This new edition provides a nuanced portrayal of the lives of Creole slaves and the roles allowed to freed people of color, tackling issues of race, gender, and slave holding by former slaves. The Forgotten People corrects misassumptions about the origin of key properties in the Cane River National Heritage Area and demonstrates how historians reconstruct the lives of the enslaved, the impoverished, and the disenfranchised.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807155330
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Out of colonial Natchitoches, in northwestern Louisiana, emerged a sophisticated and affluent community founded by a family of freed slaves. Their plantations eventually encompassed 18,000 fertile acres, which they tilled alongside hundreds of their own bondsmen. Furnishings of quality and taste graced their homes, and private tutors educated their children. Cultured, deeply religious, and highly capable, Cane River's Creoles of color enjoyed economic privileges but led politically constricted lives. Like their white neighbors, they publicly supported the Confederacy and suffered the same depredations of war and political and social uncertainties of Reconstruction. Unlike white Creoles, however, they did not recover amid cycles of Redeemer and Jim Crow politics. First published in 1977, The Forgotten People offers a socioeconomic history of this widely publicized but also highly romanticized community -- a minority group that fit no stereotypes, refused all outside labels, and still struggles to explain its identity in a world mystified by Creolism. Now revised and significantly expanded, this time-honored work revisits Cane River's "forgotten people" and incorporates new findings and insight gleaned across thirty-five years of further research. This new edition provides a nuanced portrayal of the lives of Creole slaves and the roles allowed to freed people of color, tackling issues of race, gender, and slave holding by former slaves. The Forgotten People corrects misassumptions about the origin of key properties in the Cane River National Heritage Area and demonstrates how historians reconstruct the lives of the enslaved, the impoverished, and the disenfranchised.