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Author : Andrew I. Heidelberg
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0805973052
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Norfolk 17 written by Andrew I. Heidelberg and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clay Shampoe
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738515007
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Baseball in Norfolk, Virginia written by Clay Shampoe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictured is the legendary Myers Field c. 1950, where Norfolk ballplayers, visiting major league stars, and Piedmont League opponents once dueled upon its dirt and grass. The story of baseball in Norfolk, Virginia is as fascinating and enduring as the game itself. Christy Mathewson, Phil Rizzuto, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, and a myriad of other charismatic players from the game spent time developing their raw and untested skills on the diamonds of Norfolk. Military stars of the powerful World War II Navy teams and legends of the Negro Leagues performed to the delight and fascination of local fans. Over the years, the mighty New York Yankees with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio showcased their mythical talents during scheduled exhibitions, as did dozens of other big league teams and their stars. The images depicted within this pictorial feature only a fragment of the vast chronology of the game of baseball as it was played in Norfolk over the years. They allow the reader to revisit the past, examine the present, and ponder the future of baseball in the city of Norfolk. All photographs were painstakingly selected by the authors for their dynamic visual appeal and historical impact to accurately reflect the story of baseball in Norfolk.
Author : Jeffrey L. Littlejohn
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932882
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Elusive Equality written by Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elusive Equality, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford place Norfolk, Virginia, at the center of the South's school desegregation debates, tracing the crucial role that Norfolk's African Americans played in efforts to equalize and integrate the city's schools. The authors relate how local activists participated in the historic teacher-pay-parity cases of the 1930s and 1940s, how they fought against the school closures and "Massive Resistance" of the 1950s, and how they challenged continuing patterns of discrimination by insisting on crosstown busing in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the advances made by local activists, however, Littlejohn and Ford argue that the vaunted "urban advantage" supposedly now enjoyed by Norfolk's public schools is not easy to reconcile with the city's continuing gaps and disparities in relation to race and class. In analyzing the history of struggles over school integration in Norfolk, the authors scrutinize the stories told by participants, including premature declarations of victory that laud particular achievements while ignoring the larger context in which they take place. Their research confirms that Norfolk was a harbinger of national trends in educational policy and civil rights. Drawing on recently released archival materials, oral interviews, and the rich newspaper coverage in the Journal and Guide, Virginian-Pilot, and Ledger-Dispatch, Littlejohn and Ford present a comprehensive, multidimensional, and unsentimental analysis of the century-long effort to gain educational equality. A historical study with contemporary implications, their book offers a balanced view based on a thorough, sober look at where Norfolk's school district has been and where it is going.
Author : Tommy Bogger
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813916903
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (169 download)
Download or read book Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860 written by Tommy Bogger and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very few studies of free blacks have attempted to interpret the actions and events affecting them from their own perspectives. At the same time. the search for understanding the antebellum black experience in the South usually has centered on slaves. In Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860, Tommy L. Bogger portrays lives somewhere between slavery and freedom. A free black community of skilled artisans and semi-skilled laborers emerged in Norfolk around 1800. Some free blacks earned the respect of leading white businessmen, and many enjoyed easy access to credit and steady employment. They showed no hesitation in suing recalcitrant debtors -- black or white -- and until 1805 they could count on the cooperation of court officials in helping them to collect. But from then on. free blacks experienced a steady decline in status that continued throughout the antebellum period. Legal restraints were placed on them at the same time that Norfolk's economy stagnated. and white immigrants arriving in the 1830s entered fields once monopolized by blacks. By the 1850s the free black community was sunk in hopelessness and despair. Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860 discusses the active roles that blacks played in creating their community, contradicting prevalent images of free blacks at the mercy of whites. While previous studies of Virginia's free blacks have focused on Richmond or Petersburg, developments in Norfolk's free black community also merit analysis. Norfolk also offers the advantage of a population large enough to provide a reliable data base yet small enough to preserve the stories of individual lives. Those interested in African-American history, Virginia history, orthe South in general will find this book a valuable new resource.
Author : Thomas C. Parramore
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813919881
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Norfolk written by Thomas C. Parramore and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000-01-29 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of Norfolk from the time of the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a native American Chiskiack in 1561, to the city's late 20th-century concerns, including pollution of Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions.
Author : Ruth A. Rose
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439627630
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Norfolk, Virginia written by Ruth A. Rose and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norfolk has been a center of African-American life since this country's humble beginnings, when indentured African servants arrived in 1619 to the Tidewater region. Since that time, the African-American population has endured the atrocities of slavery, poverty, and inequality, and has emerged, through a remarkable combination of hard work, perseverance, and faith, as a vibrant community and an integral component to the identity and success of Norfolk and surrounding areas.
Author : Harrison W. Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of Norfolk, Virginia written by Harrison W. Burton and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irwin M. Berent
Publisher : Norfolk History Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1940615011
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Norfolk, Virginia written by Irwin M. Berent and published by Norfolk History Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showing in stunning detail the phenomenal evolution of one of America's most historic cities from its beginnings as a town to its current expanse, this "Every Square Inch of Norfolk" book presents an astonishing array of historic Norfolk-area maps spanning 200 years. Arranged side by side and scaled to identical sizes, the maps make it possible to pinpoint every major change in the city, almost decade by decade. The book utilizes the most important detailed maps ever drawn of the entire city, beginning with the little-known War of 1812 map, the first great map to cover all the areas that make up today's Norfolk. (And if you are reading other books in the Every Square Inch of Norfolk series, then this book is especially indispensible, as the maps in the book serve as the basemaps to which all the other books in the series refer.) Along with its extensive indexes and penetrating and meticulously researched textual background information, Evolution of A City In Maps is an ideal resource for the study of every facet of Norfolk history and geography, making it not only an invaluable reference but also a significant contribution to American geography.
Author : Norfolk (Va.). Industrial Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Norfolk, Virginia ... written by Norfolk (Va.). Industrial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Norfolk-Virginia Beach Light Rail Transit System East/West Corridor Project, City of Norfolk, City of Virginia Beach, Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harrison W. Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The History of Norfolk, Virginia written by Harrison W. Burton and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Downing
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626197032
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (261 download)
Download or read book On This Day in Norfolk, Virginia History written by Sarah Downing and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1680 near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Norfolk is a maritime jewel of the East Coast. During the American Revolution, British ships shelled the city on New Year's Day 1776. The first battle of the ironclads--Monitor versus Merrimack--took place off Norfolk's shore in 1862. Walter P. Chrysler moved his art collection to the city in 1971 and catapulted the former Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences into the renowned Chrysler Museum. Author, historian and Norfolk native Sarah Downing offers a daily look at the fascinating and sometimes offbeat history of the city's storied past. Navigate the waters of history one day or month at a time with this celebration of Norfolk's heritage.
Author : Steve Norder
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1611214580
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Lincoln Takes Command written by Steve Norder and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of one week during the Civil War in which the American president assumed control of the nation’s military. One rainy evening in May, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln boarded the revenue cutter Miami and sailed to Fort Monroe in Hampton Roads, Virginia. There, for the first and only time in our country’s history, a sitting president assumed direct control of armed forces to launch a military campaign. In Lincoln Takes Command, author Steve Norderdetails this exciting, little-known week in Civil War history. Lincoln recognized the strategic possibilities offered by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s ongoing Peninsula Campaign and the importance of seizing Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the Gosport Navy Yard. For five days, the president spent time on sea and land, studied maps, spoke with military leaders, suggested actions, and issued direct orders to subordinate commanders. He helped set in motion many events, including the naval bombardment of a Confederate fort, the sailing of Union ships up the James River toward the enemy capital, an amphibious landing of Union soldiers followed by an overland march that expedited the capture of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the navy yard, and the destruction of the Rebel ironclad CSS Virginia. The president returned to Washington in triumph, with some urging him to assume direct command of the nation’s field armies. The week discussed in Lincoln Takes Command has never been as heavily researched or told in such fine detail. The successes that crowned Lincoln’s short time in Hampton Roads offered him a better understanding of, and more confidence in, his ability to see what needed to be accomplished. This insight helped sustain him through the rest of the war.
Author : Alice Granbery Walter
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806345608
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Court Records written by Alice Granbery Walter and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a faithful transcription of the oldest surviving court records for Lower Norfolk County. Virtually all of the entries have the virtue of placing one or more settlers in Lower Norfolk County early in the 17th century.
Author : John Kettlewell
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071545808
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (715 download)
Download or read book The Intracoastal Waterway Chartbook, Norfolk, Virginia, to Miami, Florida written by John Kettlewell and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find your way down the Intracoastal Waterway between the Chesapeake Bay and Florida The Intracoastal Waterway Chartbook provides a complete set of navigational charts (a $350 value) for the 1,090-mile ICW from Norfolk to Miami, as well as major Atlantic inlets, in a single, easy-to-use $70 package. Proven over 16 years and four prior editions, the Chartbook includes a complete listing of waterway bridge and lock characteristics, anchorages and waterway facilities; also pilotage notes, mileage charts, and charts for a picturesque alternate route.
Author : Virginia. Dept. of Military Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Report of the Adjutant General of the Commonwealth of Virginia for the Period... written by Virginia. Dept. of Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains organizational activities, rosters of men serving in the guard, financial data, and other information relating to civil defense.
Author : Norfolk (Va.). Industrial Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Norfolk, Virginia written by Norfolk (Va.). Industrial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
