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Download or read book John Lewis written by Raymond Arsenault and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into “good trouble.” In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis’s upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the “conscience of Congress.” Both in the streets and in Congress, Lewis promoted a philosophy of nonviolence to bring about change. He helped the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders plan the 1963 March on Washington, where he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial. Lewis’s activism led to repeated arrests and beatings, most notably when he suffered a skull fracture in Selma, Alabama, during the 1965 police attack later known as Bloody Sunday. He was instrumental in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and in Congress he advocated for racial and economic justice, immigration reform, LGBTQ rights, and national health care. Arsenault recounts Lewis’s lifetime of work toward one overarching goal: realizing the “beloved community,” an ideal society based in equity and inclusion. Lewis never wavered in this pursuit, and even in death his influence endures, inspiring mobilization and resistance in the fight for social justice.
Download or read book At Canaan's Edge written by Taylor Branch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-04 with total page 1915 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War, recognized universally as the definitive account and ultimate recognition of Martin Luther King's heroic place in the nation's history. The final volume of Taylor Branch's monumental, much honored, and definitive history of the Civil Rights Movement (America in the King Years), At Canaan's Edge covers the final years of King's struggle to hold his non-violent movement together in the face of factionalism within the Movement, hostility and harassment of the Johnson Administration, the country torn apart by Vietnam, and his own attempt (and failure) to take the Freedom Movement north. At Canaan's Edge traces a seminal era in our defining national story, freedom. The narrative resumes in Selma, crucible of the voting rights struggle for black people across the South. The time is early 1965, when the modern Civil Rights Movement enters its second decade since the Supreme Court's Brown decision declared segregation by race a violation of the Constitution. From Selma, King's non-violent Movement is under threat from competing forces inside and outside. Branch chronicles the dramatic voting rights drives in Mississippi and Alabama, Meredith's murder, the challenge to King from the Johnson Administration and the FBI and other enemies. When King tries to bring his Movement north (to Chicago), he falters. Finally we reach Memphis, the garbage strike, King's assassination. Branch's magnificent trilogy makes clear why the Civil Rights Movement, and indeed King's leadership, are among the nation's enduring achievements.
Book Synopsis Forensic Evidence by : Terrence F. Kiely
Download or read book Forensic Evidence written by Terrence F. Kiely and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on issues raised at Interpol‘s 14th Forensic Science Symposium, this volume offers a complete overview and analysis of the scientific and legal aspects of each of the forensic disciplines. It updates cases and discusses recent applications of Frye/Daubert, the admissibility of eyewitness identification, the explosion of cases and statutes addressing post-conviction DNA, the rise in attention to cold cases, and other challenges. This is the book that those in the forensic sciences need to have on hand to successfully prepare for what may await them in the courtroom.
Download or read book The Movement written by Thomas C. Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it. Holt conveys a sense of these developments as a social movement, one that shaped its participants even as they shaped it. He emphasizes the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders. This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of "movement" back into our image and understanding of the civil rights movement.
Book Synopsis A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures by : Johann Peter Lange
Download or read book A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures written by Johann Peter Lange and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical by : Johann Peter Lange
Download or read book A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical written by Johann Peter Lange and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Religion of the People of Israel by : Rudolf Kittel
Download or read book The Religion of the People of Israel written by Rudolf Kittel and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) by :
Download or read book Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) written by and published by CCEL. This book was released on with total page 1653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On Canaan's Side by : Sebastian Barry
Download or read book On Canaan's Side written by Sebastian Barry and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of Old God's Time A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where—far from her family—she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal. Spanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry’s extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose.
Download or read book Peach Blossom Paradise written by Ge Fei and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling story of revolution, idealism, and a savage struggle for utopia by one of China's greatest living novelists. In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it was time to transform his sclerotic empire into a prosperous modern state. The Hundred Days’ Reform that followed was a moment of unprecedented change and extraordinary hope—brought to an abrupt end by a bloody military coup. Dashed expectations would contribute to the revolutionary turn that Chinese history would soon take, leading in time to the deaths of millions. Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at his estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative. This mysterious man has a great vision of reforging China as an egalitarian utopia, and he will stop at nothing to make it real. It is his own plans, however, which come to nothing, and his “little sister” Xiumi is left to take up arms against a Confucian world in which women are chattel. Her campaign for change and her struggle to seize control over her own body are continually threatened by the violent whims of men who claim to be building paradise.
Book Synopsis Guardian's Grace by : Jacqueline Rhoades
Download or read book Guardian's Grace written by Jacqueline Rhoades and published by Jacqueline Rhoades. This book was released on 2012 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guardian's Grace - A Paranormal Romance filled with action, laughter and love ... Grace Masters always wanted a family she could call her own. Of course, in her imagination it didn't include a pair of rambunctious and affectionate twins who could turn into killers within the blink of an eye or an aging vampire who has trouble controlling his thirst. She never expected to find a friend and mentor in a three hundred year old witch who looks like Sophia Loren. And she certainly never dreamed okay, she dreamed but never thought it would come true of a tall, handsome, hero who would sweep her off her feet. Yet here she is, in an old Victorian home, living and loving under the cover of night. Who knew that the source of her lifelong torment was really her gift as a Daughter of Man or that this gift could be controlled and used for something good? Who knew there was another race called the Paenitentia who live side by side with humans? Who knew that demons are real?Grace certainly didn't until one fateful night when her world falls apart and comes together again in a place where she finally belongs. Sometimes a person just knows when something is right and destined to be. Sometimes convincing someone else of that fact is a little more difficult. Canaan ad Simeon is that someone else. Canaan is Liege Lord to a House of Guardians whose job is to protect the Race from a demon threat many no longer believe in. Already breaking away from the outdated traditions that are depleting their numbers and threatened by a hierarchy resistant to change, the last thing Canaan needs is to fall for this innocently sexy Daughter of Man. But fall he does, with a mixture of comedy, drama and a tantalizing love story that will touch your heart.
Download or read book The American Missionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Society's Executive committee, 1883/84-1907/1908.
Book Synopsis The Sunday Magazine by : Thomas Guthrie
Download or read book The Sunday Magazine written by Thomas Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Teachers' Guide to International Sunday School Lessons for [Jan.-Dec.] 1913 by : Martha Tarbell
Download or read book Teachers' Guide to International Sunday School Lessons for [Jan.-Dec.] 1913 written by Martha Tarbell and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East by : Alfred Jeremias
Download or read book The Old Testament in the Light of the Ancient East written by Alfred Jeremias and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canaan's Land written by John Evans and published by John Evans. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you searching for a good adventure story the whole family can enjoy? Do you like tales of the Old West with plenty of action? Joshua Lee's life is turned upside down when his father forces the family to move to West Texas in 1868. The Civil War is over, but hardships and perils remain. Joshua and his parents will have to face rattlesnakes, wild bulls, floods, fistfights . . . and their own growing fears. With the aid of Specks, his bluetick hound, Joshua struggles to help the family survive. But will it be enough? Will Mama, Papa, and he ever reach Canaan's Land? In the tradition of Old Yeller and Where the Red Fern Grows, award-winning short story writer and outdoor journalist John Evans spins a compelling tale of love and forbearance. As a bonus, the end notes include recipes for "Sourdough Trail Biscuits" and "Frontier Mock Apple Pie."
Book Synopsis A Classical Dictionary by : John Lemprière
Download or read book A Classical Dictionary written by John Lemprière and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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