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Memphis Black

Author : M. J. Fields
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781517198756
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Memphis Black written by M. J. Fields and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** From USA Today Bestselling author MJ Fields*** From bedroom performances to center stage, Memphis Black's dreams have come true. Together with his band mates-Finn, River, and Billy B-he takes some time for fun in the sun in Miami while gathering inspiration to finish their first full-length album. Some down time before hitting the road to tour the country, spreading their kind of rock like an STD. Tallia Priest, a preacher's daughter grew up next door to Madison Black, her polar opposite and very best friend. Tallia has harbored a crush on Madison's older brother Memphis for a lifetime. A boy like him would never notice a girl like her, yet he did ... once. After a tough freshman year of college, Madison invites Tallia to join her in Miami for a much needed break. Madison fails to mention they will be staying with 'Steel Total Destruction.' When Tallia arrives, there is no way for a stunned Memphis to miss the transformation of the once awkward, innocent girl next door. Forbidden desires must be hidden, lines cannot be blurred, and no one can ever know. Will the heat in Miami tempt them even further? Will buried secrets destroy lives? Can a broken heart ever be mended? It's all fun and games until someone gets rocked.

Memphis

Author : Beverly G. Bond
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738524412
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Memphis written by Beverly G. Bond and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a reputation as wide open as the waters of the Mississippi flowing past its bustling downtown district, Memphis is a city of contrasts and contradictions. From the darkness of epidemics and racial tension to its beacons of music and entreprenurial success, Memphis is a reflection of the true American experience. For many years it was a community functioning almost as two separate societies, yet the ties between the two create one resolute and dynamic city as it begins this new century.

Memphis

Author : Tara M. Stringfellow
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 0593230507
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Memphis written by Tara M. Stringfellow and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy. “A rhapsodic hymn to Black women.”—The New York Times Book Review “I fell in love with this family, from Joan’s fierce heart to her grandmother Hazel’s determined resilience. Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, NPR, BuzzFeed, Glamour, PopSugar Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected. As she grows up, Joan finds relief in her artwork, painting portraits of the community in Memphis. One of her subjects is their enigmatic neighbor Miss Dawn, who claims to know something about curses, and whose stories about the past help Joan see how her passion, imagination, and relentless hope are, in fact, the continuation of a long matrilineal tradition. Joan begins to understand that her mother, her mother’s mother, and the mothers before them persevered, made impossible choices, and put their dreams on hold so that her life would not have to be defined by loss and anger—that the sole instrument she needs for healing is her paintbrush. Unfolding over seventy years through a chorus of unforgettable voices that move back and forth in time, Memphis paints an indelible portrait of inheritance, celebrating the full complexity of what we pass down, in a family and as a country: brutality and justice, faith and forgiveness, sacrifice and love.

A Massacre in Memphis

Author : Stephen V. Ash
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0809067986
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Massacre in Memphis written by Stephen V. Ash and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American history In May 1866, just a year after the Civil War ended, Memphis erupted in a three-day spasm of racial violence that saw whites rampage through the city's black neighborhoods. By the time the fires consuming black churches and schools were put out, forty-six freed slaves had been murdered. Congress, furious at this and other evidence of white resistance in the conquered South, launched what is now called Radical Reconstruction, policies to ensure the freedom of the region's four million blacks-and one of the most remarkable experiments in American history. Stephen V. Ash's A Massacre in Memphis is a portrait of a Southern city that opens an entirely new view onto the Civil War, slavery, and its aftermath. A momentous national event, the riot is also remarkable for being "one of the best-documented episodes of the American nineteenth century." Yet Ash is the first to mine the sources available to full effect. Bringing postwar Memphis, Tennessee to vivid life, he takes us among newly arrived Yankees, former Rebels, boisterous Irish immigrants, and striving freed people, and shows how Americans of the period worked, prayed, expressed their politics, and imagined the future. And how they died: Ash's harrowing and profoundly moving present-tense narration of the riot has the immediacy of the best journalism. Told with nuance, grace, and a quiet moral passion, A Massacre in Memphis is Civil War-era history like no other.

Battling the Plantation Mentality

Author : Laurie B. Green
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888877
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Battling the Plantation Mentality written by Laurie B. Green and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Exploring the notion of "freedom" in postwar Memphis, Green demonstrates that the civil rights movement was battling an ongoing "plantation mentality" based on race, gender, and power that permeated southern culture long before--and even after--the groundbreaking legislation of the mid-1960s. With its slogan "I AM a Man!" the Memphis strike provides a clarion example of how the movement fought for a black freedom that consisted of not only constitutional rights but also social and human rights. As the sharecropping system crumbled and migrants streamed to the cities during and after World War II, the struggle for black freedom touched all aspects of daily life. Green traces the movement to new locations, from protests against police brutality and racist movie censorship policies to innovations in mass culture, such as black-oriented radio stations. Incorporating scores of oral histories, Green demonstrates that the interplay of politics, culture, and consciousness is critical to truly understanding freedom and the black struggle for it.

Black Fire

Author : Robert J. Crawford
Publisher : History Press (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9781596293281
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Black Fire written by Robert J. Crawford and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2007 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert J Crawford was one of the first 12 black firefighter hired by the City of Memphis. He came through the ranks as the first black battalion chief, deputy chief and deputy director. This book details his experiences as a boy growing up in Memphis and as a black firefighter. This is a first hand personal experience of what black firefighters faced from a systemic manipulation to deny them opportunity and examples of tactics used to "get rid of them."

It Came From Memphis

Author : Robert Gordon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743410459
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book It Came From Memphis written by Robert Gordon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon's critically acclaimed and richly entertaining exploration of the birthplace of rock and roll is peopled with Delta bluesmen, manic deejays, matinee cowboys and Elvis.

Memphis Tennessee Garrison

Author : Memphis Tennessee Garrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780821413746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Memphis Tennessee Garrison written by Memphis Tennessee Garrison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history, based on interview transcripts, is the untold story of African American life in West Virginia, as seen through the eyes of a remarkable woman: Memphis Tennessee Garrison, an innovative teacher, administrative worker at US Steel, and vice president of the National Board of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights struggle.

African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound

Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739175866
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound written by Charles Williams and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of a segregated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919. It is also a study of contemporary approaches to community building during a time period of racial segregation and polarization. The town of Orange Mound, built by Elzey E. Meacham as an all-black subdivision for “negroes,” represents a unique chapter in American history. There is no other case, neither in the deep South nor in the far West, of such a tremendous effort on the part of African Americans to come together to occupy a carved out space—eventually making it into a black community on the outskirts of Memphis on a former slave plantation. The significance of “community” continues to be relevant to our ever-evolving understanding of racial and ethnic formations in the South. This ethnography of community, family, and institution in the latter nineteenth and early twentieth-century Shelby County Tennessee reveals the richness and complexity of community building through an investigation of cultural and historic community development, settlement patterns, kinship networks, and sociopolitical, economic, and religious value systems in the historic black community of Orange Mound. This research is the product of a thorough ethnographic study conducted over a three-year period which involves participation observation, in-depth interviews, textual analysis of family histories, newspapers, census data, and local government and church records. Even though textual analysis was used throughout the text, its intent was to utilize the concepts and categories that were relevant and meaningful to the people of Orange Mound.

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights

Author : Michael K. Honey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054326
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights written by Michael K. Honey and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2023-02-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in April 1968. Michael K. Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of workers and organizers that helped to set the stage for segregation's demise. Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, given by the Southern Historical Association, 1994. Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award for an outstanding book in American social history.

African Americans in Memphis

Author : Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738567501
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book African Americans in Memphis written by Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memphis has been an important city for African Americans in the South since the Civil War. They migrated from within Tennessee and from surrounding states to the urban crossroads in large numbers after emancipation, seeking freedom from the oppressive race relations of the rural South. Images of America: African Americans in Memphis chronicles this regional experience from the 19th century to the 1950s. Historic black Memphians were railroad men, bricklayers, chauffeurs, dressmakers, headwaiters, and beauticians, as well as businessmen, teachers, principals, barbers, preachers, musicians, nurses, doctors, Republican leaders, and Pullman car porters. During the Jim Crow era, they established social, political, economic, and educational institutions that sustained their communities in one of the most rigidly segregated cities in America. The dynamic growth and change of the post-World War II South set the stage for a new, authentic, black urban culture defined by Memphis gospel, blues, and rhythm and blues music; black radio; black newspapers; and religious pageants.

Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964

Author : Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780915525102
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949-1964 written by Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable pictorial overview of African American vitality in a southern metropolis

Notable Black Memphians

Author :
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968634
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Notable Black Memphians written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chocolate Cities

Author : Marcus Anthony Hunter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292820
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Chocolate Cities written by Marcus Anthony Hunter and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you think of a map of the United States, what do you see? Now think of the Seattle that begot Jimi Hendrix. The Dallas that shaped Erykah Badu. The Holly Springs, Mississippi, that compelled Ida B. Wells to activism against lynching. The Birmingham where Martin Luther King, Jr., penned his most famous missive. Now how do you see the United States? Chocolate Cities offers a new cartography of the United States—a “Black Map” that more accurately reflects the lived experiences and the future of Black life in America. Drawing on cultural sources such as film, music, fiction, and plays, and on traditional resources like Census data, oral histories, ethnographies, and health and wealth data, the book offers a new perspective for analyzing, mapping, and understanding the ebbs and flows of the Black American experience—all in the cities, towns, neighborhoods, and communities that Black Americans have created and defended. Black maps are consequentially different from our current geographical understanding of race and place in America. And as the United States moves toward a majority minority society, Chocolate Cities provides a broad and necessary assessment of how racial and ethnic minorities make and change America’s social, economic, and political landscape.

Memphis, Nam, Sweden

Author : Terry Whitmore
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878059843
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Memphis, Nam, Sweden written by Terry Whitmore and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest memoirs of the Vietnam experience

Black Power in the Bluff City

Author : Shirletta J. Kinchen
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781621901877
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Black Power in the Bluff City written by Shirletta J. Kinchen and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Black Power activism on the coasts and in the Midwest has attracted considerable scholarly attention, much less has been written about the movement's impact outside these hot beds. Shirletta J. Kinchen helps redress that imbalance by examining how young Memphis activists embraced Black Power ideology to confront gross disparities in housing, education, and employment as well as police brutality and harassment.

Wheelin' on Beale

Author : Louis Cantor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wheelin' on Beale written by Louis Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of how a Memphis radio station broke down racial barriers by changing its programming to target the largely ignored black audience. This change became a part of the social and cultural revolution that rocked the South and the nation--an important missing chapter in American cultural history. 16 pages of photographs.