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Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Children of the levee written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Children of the Levee. Edited by O.W. Frost. Introd. by John Ball written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
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ISBN 13 : 9780598272621
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Children of the Levee, with Introduction by John Ball written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Children of the Levee. (Stories and Sketches ... [of] the Levee Life of Negro Steamboat Hands) written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813163056
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Children of the Levee written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati in the 1870's was the largest inland city in the nation. Much of its prosperity and growth it owed to the commerce which floated along its Ohio River boundary on the way between Pittsburgh and New Orleans. This traffic also sustained a unique African American culture -- saloonkeepers, boardinghouse operators, entertainers, and women who served the steamboat hands between trips. Into this great western metropolis came young Lafcadio Hearn, who after several tentative starts became a newspaper reporter first for the Enquirer and then for the Commercial. Drawn to the Ohio River by his interest in the unusual, Hearn found beneath the rough surface of levee life a kind of cosmopolitan tolerance which emphasized the essential humanity of the community. Hearn's twelve sketches -- here reprinted as a unit for the first time -- are perceptive and sympathetic, yet not highly subjective and romanticized. Collectively they form an important comprehensive picture of African American life in a border city just after the Civil War. Among the earliest of his writings, they also foreshadow the course Hearn's life was to take in New Orleans, the West Indies, and finally Japan.
Author : Johnette Downing
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781455625918
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Bonfires on the Levee written by Johnette Downing and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana author and illustrator Johnette Downing captures charming holiday traditions in this counting book for emerging readers. From one to ten the images of holiday bonfires and Christmas practices along the levees fill the pages. The vibrant illustrations created in cut paper and foam collage enhance the text, offering little ones further engagement in this soon to be classic Christmas tale of waiting for Papa Noel along the levee.
Author : Nikki Marie Taylor
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821415794
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Frontiers of Freedom written by Nikki Marie Taylor and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Cincinnati was northern in its geography, southern in its economy and politics, and western in its commercial aspirations. While those identities presented a crossroad of opportunity for native whites and immigrants, African Americans endured economic repression and a denial of civil rights, compounded by extreme and frequent mob violence. No other northern city rivaled Cincinnati's vicious mob spirit. Frontiers of Freedom follows the black community as it moved from alienation and vulnerability in the 1820s toward collective consciousness and, eventually, political self-respect and self-determination. As author Nikki M. Taylor points out, this was a community that at times supported all-black communities, armed self-defense, and separate, but independent, black schools. Black Cincinnati's strategies to gain equality and citizenship were as dynamic as they were effective. When the black community united in armed defense of its homes and property during an 1841 mob attack, it demonstrated that it was no longer willing to be exiled from the city as it had been in 1829. Frontiers of Freedom chronicles alternating moments of triumph and tribulation, of pride and pain; but more than anything, it chronicles the resilience of the black community in a particularly difficult urban context at a defining moment in American history.
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Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Children Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Cabot Lowell
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Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Posies for Children written by Anna Cabot Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Macon Fry
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496833090
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book They Called Us River Rats written by Macon Fry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.
Author : Florence Mars
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 0451495020
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Say Bonjour to the Lady written by Florence Mars and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous, illustrated look at French and American parenting styles that is also equal parts love letter to two of the greatest cities in the world: Paris and New York. Where French parents rely heavily on the word “No” and dictate what their children wear, American moms and dads talk everything out with their kids and let them choose their own clothes. French children are well-behaved and stylish; American children are self-confident and creative. Which approach is better? Both—and neither—proclaim authors Florence Mars and Pauline Lévêque, two Parisian moms raising children in New York. Beautifully and playfully illustrated by Lévêque, Say Bonjour to the Lady pokes fun at the extremes of both styles, making for an amusing look at parenting today.
Author : Elizabeth Tuckett
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Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Children's Journey and Other Stories written by Elizabeth Tuckett and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Alexander Percy
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307820270
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Lanterns On The Levee written by William Alexander Percy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in Greenville, Mississippi, within the shelter of old traditions, aristocratic in the best sense, William Alexander Percy in his lifetime (1885–1942) was brought face to face with the convulsions of a changing world. Lanterns on the Levee is his memorial to the South of his youth and young manhood. In describing life in the Mississippi Delta, Percy bridges the interval between the semifeudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. The rare qualities of this classic memoir lie not in what Will Percy did in his life—although his life was exciting and varied—but rather in the intimate, honest, and soul-probing record of how he brought himself to contemplate unflinchingly a new and unstable era. The 1973 introduction by Walker Percy—Will's nephew and adopted son—recalls the strong character and easy grace of "the most extraordinary man I have ever known."
Author : Ruth McEnery Stuart
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The River's Children written by Ruth McEnery Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John George Knight
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Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Narrative of the Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Colony of Victoria, Australia written by John George Knight and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Pfeifer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094654
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Lynching Beyond Dixie written by Michael J. Pfeifer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-03-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, scholars have explored much of the history of mob violence in the American South, especially in the years after Reconstruction. However, the lynching violence that occurred in American regions outside the South, where hundreds of persons, including Hispanics, whites, African Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans died at the hands of lynch mobs, has received less attention. This collection of essays by prominent and rising scholars fills this gap by illuminating the factors that distinguished lynching in the West, the Midwest, and the Mid-Atlantic. The volume adds to a more comprehensive history of American lynching and will be of interest to all readers interested in the history of violence across the varied regions of the United States. Contributors are Jack S. Blocker Jr., Brent M. S. Campney, William D. Carrigan, Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Dennis B. Downey, Larry R. Gerlach, Kimberley Mangun, Helen McLure, Michael J. Pfeifer, Christopher Waldrep, Clive Webb, and Dena Lynn Winslow.
Author : Jared Fishman
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369722671
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Fire on the Levee written by Jared Fishman and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting tale told with care and expertise.” —David Simon, creator of The Wire The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina–era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk. That folder contained two items: a story from The Nation magazine examining a mysterious death in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, and an autopsy report for a man named Henry Glover, whose charred remains were found in a burned-out car two weeks after the storm. The autopsy report, bafflingly, listed no cause of death. But according to The Nation story, a gravely wounded Glover had last been seen in a car driven by a New Orleans police officer. Intrigued despite the lack of evidence, Fishman set out to learn what happened to Glover. He flew to New Orleans and teamed up with a rookie FBI agent, and together they started to track down anyone with information about what had happened to Glover on that day. Fire on the Levee tells the story of a young idealistic prosecutor determined to bring the truth to light. The case would lead to major reforms in the New Orleans Police Department and ultimately change our understanding of race, policing and justice in post-Katrina New Orleans and beyond.
