Author: Reginald Petty
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533512772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book is as regal as it is revealing and compelling. Artisans, athletes, educators, entertainers, scientists, veterans of wars and the Race Riot of 1917 join political leaders and poets in this dream- and performance-storied portraiture of African American East St. Louis. Authors-compilers Reginald Petty (himself a storied vault) and Tiffany Lee place local heroes and sheroes in a quilt of regional, national and global import. These individual and familistic achievements are worth being read, taught, and shared around dinner tables-and with congregations. -Eugene B. Redmond, Poet Laureate of East St. Louis, Illinois and Emeritus Professor English, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Legendary East St. Louisans
Author: Reginald Petty
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533512772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book is as regal as it is revealing and compelling. Artisans, athletes, educators, entertainers, scientists, veterans of wars and the Race Riot of 1917 join political leaders and poets in this dream- and performance-storied portraiture of African American East St. Louis. Authors-compilers Reginald Petty (himself a storied vault) and Tiffany Lee place local heroes and sheroes in a quilt of regional, national and global import. These individual and familistic achievements are worth being read, taught, and shared around dinner tables-and with congregations. -Eugene B. Redmond, Poet Laureate of East St. Louis, Illinois and Emeritus Professor English, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533512772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book is as regal as it is revealing and compelling. Artisans, athletes, educators, entertainers, scientists, veterans of wars and the Race Riot of 1917 join political leaders and poets in this dream- and performance-storied portraiture of African American East St. Louis. Authors-compilers Reginald Petty (himself a storied vault) and Tiffany Lee place local heroes and sheroes in a quilt of regional, national and global import. These individual and familistic achievements are worth being read, taught, and shared around dinner tables-and with congregations. -Eugene B. Redmond, Poet Laureate of East St. Louis, Illinois and Emeritus Professor English, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Bits and Pieces
Author: Reginald Petty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
A collection of information from various directories, newspapers and other publications, on the history of East St. Louis, focusing on the African-American experience.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
A collection of information from various directories, newspapers and other publications, on the history of East St. Louis, focusing on the African-American experience.
An East St. Louis Anthology
Author: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Institute for Urban Research
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891442797
Category : East Saint Louis (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Comprised of facsimile reproductions of excerpts from: History of East St. Louis, by Robert A. Tyson (1875); Saint Louis : the future great city of the world, by Logan Reavis (1876); History of St. Clair County, Illinois (1881); Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, and, History of St. Clair County (1907); Standard atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois (1901); Directory of the city of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois (1893); East St. Louis directory (1887); Ordinances of the city of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois (1884).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781891442797
Category : East Saint Louis (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Comprised of facsimile reproductions of excerpts from: History of East St. Louis, by Robert A. Tyson (1875); Saint Louis : the future great city of the world, by Logan Reavis (1876); History of St. Clair County, Illinois (1881); Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, and, History of St. Clair County (1907); Standard atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois (1901); Directory of the city of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois (1893); East St. Louis directory (1887); Ordinances of the city of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois (1884).
Bits & Pieces of East St. Louis History, 1890 - Present
Author: Reginald Petty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of information from various directories, newspapers and other publications, on the history of East St. Louis, focusing on the African-American experience.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of information from various directories, newspapers and other publications, on the history of East St. Louis, focusing on the African-American experience.
Bits and Pieces of East Saint Louis History, 1890 - Present
Author: Reginald E. Petty
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of information from various city directories, Lincoln High School yearbooks, newspapers and other publications, on the history of East St. Louis, focusing on the African-American experience.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of information from various city directories, Lincoln High School yearbooks, newspapers and other publications, on the history of East St. Louis, focusing on the African-American experience.
East St. Louis Remembered
Author: Bill Nunes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964693487
Category : East Saint Louis (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964693487
Category : East Saint Louis (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
My East St. Louis , a Collection of Authentic Personal Stories from My Life Growing Up in East St. Louis
Author: tymon shipp
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781791550950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
A Collection of Authentic Personal Stories from my Life growing up in East St. Louis
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781791550950
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
A Collection of Authentic Personal Stories from my Life growing up in East St. Louis
East St. Louis
Author: Bill Nunes
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738582801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Depicts the early history of East St. Louis, which was officially established in 1861.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738582801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Depicts the early history of East St. Louis, which was officially established in 1861.
Illustrated History of East Saint Louis
Author: Bill Nunes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964693449
Category : East Saint Louis (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780964693449
Category : East Saint Louis (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters
Author: Julie Klam
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735216444
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A Washington Post best nonfiction book pick of 2021 “It is biography as an expression of love.” – The New York Times New York Times–bestselling author Julie Klam’s funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts. Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the twentieth century the sisters’ parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage and promised to send for them when he settled in California—a promise he never kept. One of the Morris sisters later became a successful Wall Street trader and advised Franklin Roosevelt. The sisters lived together in New York City, none of them married or had children, and one even had an affair with J. P. Morgan. The stories of these independent women intrigued Klam, but as she delved into them to learn more, she realized that the tales were almost completely untrue. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the revealing account of what Klam discovered about her family—and herself—as she dug into the past. The deeper she went into the lives of the Morris sisters, the slipperier their stories became. And the more questions she had about what actually happened to them, the more her opinion of them evolved. Part memoir and part confessional, and told with the wit and honesty that are hallmarks of Klam’s books, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the fascinating and funny true story of one writer’s journey into her family’s past, the truths she brings to light, and what she learns about herself along the way.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735216444
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A Washington Post best nonfiction book pick of 2021 “It is biography as an expression of love.” – The New York Times New York Times–bestselling author Julie Klam’s funny and moving story of the Morris sisters, distant relations with mysterious pasts. Ever since she was young, Julie Klam has been fascinated by the Morris sisters, cousins of her grandmother. According to family lore, early in the twentieth century the sisters’ parents decided to move the family from Eastern Europe to Los Angeles so their father could become a movie director. On the way, their pregnant mother went into labor in St. Louis, where the baby was born and where their mother died. The father left the children in an orphanage and promised to send for them when he settled in California—a promise he never kept. One of the Morris sisters later became a successful Wall Street trader and advised Franklin Roosevelt. The sisters lived together in New York City, none of them married or had children, and one even had an affair with J. P. Morgan. The stories of these independent women intrigued Klam, but as she delved into them to learn more, she realized that the tales were almost completely untrue. The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the revealing account of what Klam discovered about her family—and herself—as she dug into the past. The deeper she went into the lives of the Morris sisters, the slipperier their stories became. And the more questions she had about what actually happened to them, the more her opinion of them evolved. Part memoir and part confessional, and told with the wit and honesty that are hallmarks of Klam’s books, The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters is the fascinating and funny true story of one writer’s journey into her family’s past, the truths she brings to light, and what she learns about herself along the way.