Author: Sherwood Eddy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Carla Shalaby
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620972379
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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A radical educator's paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young "problem children" In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers," challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small. Through delicately crafted portraits of these memorable children—Zora, Lucas, Sean, and Marcus—Troublemakers allows us to see school through the eyes of those who know firsthand what it means to be labeled a problem. From Zora's proud individuality to Marcus's open willfulness, from Sean's struggle with authority to Lucas's tenacious imagination, comes profound insight—for educators and parents alike—into how schools engender, exclude, and then try to erase trouble, right along with the young people accused of making it. And although the harsh disciplining of adolescent behavior has been called out as part of a school-to-prison pipeline, the children we meet in these pages demonstrate how a child's path to excessive punishment and exclusion in fact begins at a much younger age. Shalaby's empathetic, discerning, and elegant prose gives us a deeply textured look at what noncompliance signals about the environments we require students to adapt to in our schools. Both urgent and timely, this paradigm-shifting book challenges our typical expectations for young children and with principled affection reveals how these demands—despite good intentions—work to undermine the pursuit of a free and just society.

Author: Lillie Patterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American civil rights workers
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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A biography of the Baptist minister, focusing on his leadership role in the civil rights movement.

Author: W. H. Withrow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Douglas T. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816016174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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Traces the life of the black abolitionist, from his early years in slavery to his later success as a persuasive editor, orator, and writer.

Author: Rory M. Smith
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456831739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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People on the lookout for great stories are in for a treat as author Rory M. Smith introduces them to a new breed of superheroes. Readers will find themselves engrossed as they immerse in this gripping tale about King Clayshon The Freedom Maker. The first story of a seven-book series, King Clayshon The Freedom Maker follows the birth of a great warrior on the planet Natobea, who is destined to become the freedom maker. He is a new kind of superhero who was created by the God Jehovah. Prophets have foretold of his birth, of how he will free his people from the other God called Demornour. Demornour, at one time, had shared the heavens with Jehovah. But a holy war has broken out in the heavens between the two Gods which lasted for over one hundred thousand years. When Demornour and his angels lost the war, they were cast out of the heavens forever. He would not rest until he had revenge on all men in all galaxies that lived by the laws of Jehovah. He vows to return to reclaim the heavens and destroy the God called Jehovah. Demornour causes destruction and evil throughout all of Jehovah galaxies and enslaves the people in the most powerful planet ever created by Jehovah, Natobea. The planet is now ruled by two sons of the mighty God Demornour, where slavery has been going on for four hundred thousand years. Jehovah will send his warrior King Clayshon the Freedom Maker to free his people in the year 2010. But first, he must call planet earth his home for twenty years before he can return to free his people. When the time comes, can King Clayshon The Freedom Maker embrace the destiny has been since his birth and become the true hero of all planets in all galaxies? Readers can find out as they immerse in this intriguing mix of sci-fi, drama, mystery, religion, humor, some horror, and suspense thriller. For more information on this book, interested parties may log on to www.Xlibris.com.

Author: Mike Konczal
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620975386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom “Mike Konczal [is] one of our most powerful advocates of financial reform‚ [a] heroic critic of austerity‚ and a huge resource for progressives.”—Paul Krugman Health insurance, student loan debt, retirement security, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership—these are the issues driving America’s current political debates. And they are all linked, as this brilliant and timely book reveals, by a single question: should we allow the free market to determine our lives? In the tradition of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine, noted economic commentator Mike Konczal answers this question with a resounding no. Freedom from the Market blends passionate political argument and a bold new take on American history to reveal that, from the earliest days of the republic, Americans have defined freedom as what we keep free from the control of the market. With chapters on the history of the Homestead Act and land ownership, the eight-hour work day and free time, social insurance and Social Security, World War II day cares, Medicare and desegregation, free public colleges, intellectual property, and the public corporation, Konczal shows how citizens have fought to ensure that everyone has access to the conditions that make us free. At a time when millions of Americans—and more and more politicians—are questioning the unregulated free market, Freedom from the Market offers a new narrative, and new intellectual ammunition, for the fight that lies ahead.

Author: Matthias Schmelz
Publisher: The Millionaire Maker
ISBN: 9729948917
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 37

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Author: A.W. Elson & Co
Publisher:
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Category : History in art
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Betty Reid Soskin
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401954227
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for black folk that followed. In her lifetime, Betty has watched the nation begin to confront its race and gender biases when forced to come together in the World War II era; seen our differences nearly break us apart again in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras; and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right. The child of proud Louisiana Creole parents who refused to bow down to Southern discrimination, Betty was raised in the Bay Area black community before the great westward migration of World War II. After working in the civilian home front effort in the war years, she and her husband, Mel Reid, helped break down racial boundaries by moving into a previously all-white community east of the Oakland hills, where they raised four children while resisting the prejudices against the family that many of her neighbors held. With Mel, she opened up one of the first Bay Area record stores in Berkeley both owned by African-Americans and dedicated to the distribution of African-American music. Her volunteer work in rehabilitating the community where the record shop began eventually led her to a paid position as a state legislative aide, helping to plan the innovative Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, then to a “second” career as the oldest park ranger in the history of the National Park Service. In between, she used her talents as a singer and songwriter to interpret and chronicle the great American social upheavals that marked the 1960s. In 2003, Betty displayed a new talent when she created the popular blog CBreaux Speaks, sharing the sometimes fierce, sometimes gently persuasive, but always brightly honest story of her long journey through an American and African-American life. Blending together selections from many of Betty’s hundreds of blog entries with interviews, letters, and speeches, Sign My Name to Freedom invites you along on that journey, through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes.