Author: Naz Meknat
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ISBN: 9781684338078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Tehran, late 1970s a capital city on the brink of a revolution. After the revolution, the physical and political landscape of Iran drastically changed. The streets were filled with crumbling buildings, sirens rang throughout the night, and smoke filled the skyline. Naz Meknat was a young girl amidst this chaos, and it wouldn't take long to realize her life was destined to be just as chaotic as her burning city. As Naz grew up, she reflected the rebellious nature of the city she called home. As an adolescent, Naz felt confined, wanting more out of life and out of the violent relationship she was in. Naz yearned for a chance at an extraordinary life but felt that it was far out of her reach. The struggles continued, and she had to find a way to keep her hope alive. A hope that turned into a goal, a goal to reach America.
Author: Cathy Moore
Publisher: First Avenue Editions
ISBN: 0876147872
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Tells of the daring escape of a slave couple in 1848, with the woman, Ellen Croft, posing as a white man, and her husband posing as the man's slave.
Author: New York (State). Department of Agriculture and Markets
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ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: Mumia Abu-Jamal
Publisher: South End Press
ISBN: 9780896087187
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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In his youth Mumia Abu-Jamal helped found the Philadelphia branch of the Black Panther Party, wrote for the national newspaper, and began his life-long work of exposing the violence of the state as it manifests in entrenched poverty, endemic racism, and unending police brutality and celebrating a people's unending quest for freedom. In We Want Freedom, Mumia combines personal experience with extensive research to provide a compelling history of the Black Panther Party--what it was, where it came from, and what rose from its ashes. Mumia also pays special attention to the U.S. government's disruption of the organization through COINTELPRO and similar operations. While Abu-Jamal is a prolific writer and probably the world's most famous political prisoner, this book is unlike any of Mumia's previous works. In We Want Freedom, Abu-Jamal applies his sharp critical faculties to an examination of one of the U.S.'s most revolutionary and most misrepresented groups. A subject previously explored by various historians and forever ripe for "insider" accounts, the Black Panther Party has not yet been addressed by a writer with the well-earned international acclaim of Abu-Jamal, nor with his unique combination of a powerful, even poetic, voice and an unsparing critical gaze. Abu-Jamal is able to make his own Black Panther Party days come alive as well as help situate the organization within its historical context, a context that included both great revolutionary fervor and hope, and great repression. In this era, when the US PATRIOT Act dismantles some of the same rights and freedoms violated by the FBI in their attack on the Black Panther Party, the story of how the Party grew and matured while combating such invasions is a welcome and essential lesson.
Author: New York (State). Dept. of Agriculture and Markets
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ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Category : Single tax
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
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Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
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Category : Paper industry
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Author: Herbert Wrigley Wilson
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Category : Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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