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The Linthead Murders

Author : Don Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692344835
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (448 download)

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Download or read book The Linthead Murders written by Don Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Henry Tate is a county constable in the virtually brand new cotton mill village of Boiling Springs, North Carolina. His job has been, he says, mostly to "just walk around and let people see they's some law in the lower part of the county." However, when the village's first ever murder occurs in 1908, things change. Jim Crow, always a village resident, struts through town cawing with feathers ruffled. For the murder victim is white and there is wide spread suspicion that the murderer is black. This means Jim Henry must not only solve a murder, he must deal with racial tension that threatens to boil over into a full-fledged race riot.

The Linthead

Author : Edmund Sauls
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615665927
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Linthead written by Edmund Sauls and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s and 1940s, most Southern towns and cities had cotton mills. Inside those mills, The lint from the cotton floated freely in the air and often stuck To The men and women who worked the mill. Thus, The nickname Linthead was born. In the Linthead, author Charles Edmund 'Hoot' Sauls recounts the story of the good times And The hard times of a boy living in the Great Depression-era South. He tells of how he survived the depression years in the small cotton mill town of Fullerville, Georgia; the cotton mill employees played an important part in his early boyhood to his young manhood years. Readers will gain an insight into the lives of those souls as they worked together and played together. Most of all, these people learned to share with each other; not only material things, but a genuine closeness, which came from mutual respect for one another through loving and caring.

Linthead Stomp

Author : Patrick Huber
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807886786
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Linthead Stomp written by Patrick Huber and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief, the roots of American country music do not lie solely on southern farms or in mountain hollows. Rather, much of this music recorded before World War II emerged from the bustling cities and towns of the Piedmont South. No group contributed more to the commercialization of early country music than southern factory workers. In Linthead Stomp, Patrick Huber explores the origins and development of this music in the Piedmont's mill villages. Huber offers vivid portraits of a colorful cast of Piedmont millhand musicians, including Fiddlin' John Carson, Charlie Poole, Dave McCarn, and the Dixon Brothers, and considers the impact that urban living, industrial work, and mass culture had on their lives and music. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including rare 78-rpm recordings and unpublished interviews, Huber reveals how the country music recorded between 1922 and 1942 was just as modern as the jazz music of the same era. Linthead Stomp celebrates the Piedmont millhand fiddlers, guitarists, and banjo pickers who combined the collective memories of the rural countryside with the upheavals of urban-industrial life to create a distinctive American music that spoke to the changing realities of the twentieth-century South.

The Murder of a Brother

Author : Richard Hanks
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1640828834
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Murder of a Brother written by Richard Hanks and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Delisted

Huntsville Textile Mills & Villages: Linthead Legacy

Author : Terri L. French
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467137081
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Huntsville Textile Mills & Villages: Linthead Legacy written by Terri L. French and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1900s, Huntsville, Alabama, had more spindles than any other city in the South. Cotton fields and mills made the city a major competitor in the textile industry. Entire mill villages sprang up around the factories to house workers and their families. Many of these village buildings are now iconic community landmarks, such as the revitalized Lowe Mill arts facility and the Merrimack Mill Village Historic District. The "lintheads," a demeaning moniker villagers wore as a badge of honor, were hard workers. Their lives were fraught with hardships, from slavery and child labor to factory fires and shutdowns. They endured job-related injuries and illnesses, strikes and the Great Depression. Author Terri L. French details the lives, history and legacy of the workers.

The Cat, the Mill and the Murder

Author : Leann Sweeney
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101609680
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Cat, the Mill and the Murder written by Leann Sweeney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When cat lover and quilter Jillian Hart volunteers to help a local animal shelter relocate a colony of feral cats living in an abandoned textile mill, she never expects to find a woman living there, too. Jeannie went missing from Mercy, South Carolina, a decade ago, after her own daughter’s disappearance. Jeannie refuses to leave the mill or abandon Boots, her cat who died years ago. After all, she and Boots feel the need to protect the premises from “creepers” who come in the night. After Jeannie is hurt in an accident and is taken away, those who've come to town to help repurpose the mill uncover a terrible discovery.. As the wheels start turning in Jillian’s mind, a mysterious new feline friend aids in her quest to unearth a long-kept and dark secret.

Murder in Caney Fork

Author : Wally Avett
Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
ISBN 13 : 1611944422
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Caney Fork written by Wally Avett and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the trial of the century in a 1940's North Carolina town. Murder and vigilante justice. War hero and law student Wes Ross has to save his uncle--but hide the truth. Taught to shoot in the rough logging camps of the North Carolina swamps, Wes Ross remembers his lessons well. Dodging hostile gunfire with dozens of other young Marines, he storms a remote Pacific island as one of Carlson's Raiders in the first commando-style attack of World War II. He blasts several Japanese snipers from their palm-tree hideouts with buckshot before an enemy bullet sends him home. The Carolina homefront includes a new girlfriend and a new occupation, learning to be a rural lawyer in his uncle's law office, including courtroom intrigue and what goes on behind the scenes. Wes, like his uncles, is a good man, the kind who takes up for the poor and downtrodden, looking out for those who are easy prey for bullies. Frog Cutshaw is the storekeeper in the Caney Fork backwoods, a swaggering ex-moonshiner who is deadly with his ever-present .45 auto pistol. Frog's daylight rape of a married woman and the brutal killing of her husband bring on Bible Belt vigilante justice, an eye for an eye, a life for a life. Wally Avett is a retired newspaperman. He lives in North Carolina.

A Fabric of Defeat

Author : Bryant Simon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807864494
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book A Fabric of Defeat written by Bryant Simon and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Bryant Simon brings to life the politics of white South Carolina millhands during the first half of the twentieth century. His revealing and moving account explores how this group of southern laborers thought about and participated in politics and public power. Taking a broad view of politics, Simon looks at laborers as they engaged in political activity in many venues--at the polling station, on front porches, and on the shop floor--and examines their political involvement at the local, state, and national levels. He describes the campaign styles and rhetoric of such politicians as Coleman Blease and Olin Johnston (himself a former millhand), who eagerly sought the workers' votes. He draws a detailed picture of mill workers casting ballots, carrying placards, marching on the state capital, writing to lawmakers, and picketing factories. These millhands' politics reflected their public and private thoughts about whiteness and blackness, war and the New Deal, democracy and justice, gender and sexuality, class relations and consumption. Ultimately, the people depicted here are neither romanticized nor dismissed as the stereotypically racist and uneducated "rednecks" found in many accounts of southern politics. Southern workers understood the political and social forces that shaped their lives, argues Simon, and they developed complex political strategies to deal with those forces.

Linthead

Author : Wilt Browning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Linthead written by Wilt Browning and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was never a term of endearment --linthead-- but some people whose lives were formed in the cotton mill villages of the South wore it as a badge of honor. One is Wilt Browning, part of the last generation to be born and raised on the mill hill. This book is a look at mill hill life from the 1940s through the early 50s, when the mills began selling off company houses and life on the mill hills began changing rapidly. Linthead is a revisiting of the life that thousands of Carolinians and other Southerners once lived, a life that exists now only in memories. Browning brings those memories to life.

The Country Music Reader

Author : Travis D. Stimeling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199314918
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Country Music Reader written by Travis D. Stimeling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an anthology of primary source readings encompassing the history of country music from circa 1900 to the present, offering firsthand insight into the changing role of country music within both the music industry and American culture.

You Wrote My Life

Author : Melton Alonza McLaurin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9782881245480
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book You Wrote My Life written by Melton Alonza McLaurin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Violation

Author : David Rose
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Violation written by David Rose and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping exposè of an appalling miscarriage of justice that unpicks a city's bloodstained history of racism.

The Silver Star

Author : Jeannette Walls
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145166155X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Silver Star written by Jeannette Walls and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls’s gripping novel "transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may be to not run away" (O, The Oprah Magazine). It is 1970 in a small town in California. “Bean” Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that’s been in Charlotte’s family for generations. An impetuous optimist, Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, and the sisters start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in town, who bullies his workers, his tenants, his children, and his wife. Liz is whip-smart—an inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, nonconformist. But when school starts in the fall, it’s Bean who easily adjusts, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz in the car with Maddox. Jeannette Walls has written a deeply moving novel about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other and the world, despite its flaws and injustices.

Dictionary of American Regional English: I-O

Author : Frederic G. Cassidy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of American Regional English: I-O written by Frederic G. Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of words, phrases, and local meanings has been culled from years of research, using thousands of interviews with representative American communities. Online index is at http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/18.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty

Author : Sandra L. Borden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000387216
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty written by Sandra L. Borden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this collection explores the complex, and often problematic, ways in which the news media shapes perceptions of poverty. Editor Sandra L. Borden and a diverse collection of scholars and journalists question exactly how the news media can reinforce (or undermine) poverty and privilege. This book is divided into five parts that examine philosophical principles for reporting on poverty, the history and nature of poverty coverage, problematic representations of people experiencing poverty, poverty coverage as part of reporting on public policy and positive possibilities for poverty coverage. Each section provides an introduction to the topic, as well as a broad selection of essays illuminating key issues and a Q&A with a relevant journalist. Topics covered include news coverage of corporate philanthropy, structural bias in reporting, representations of the working poor, the moral demands of vulnerability and agency, community empowerment and citizen media. The book’s broad focus considers media and poverty at both the local and global levels with contributors from 16 countries. This is an ideal reference for students and scholars of media, communication and journalism who are studying topics involving the media and social justice, as well as journalists, activists and policy makers working in these areas.

Like a Family

Author : Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807882941
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Like a Family written by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice

Unfinished Lives

Author : Stephen V. Sprinkle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725245795
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Unfinished Lives written by Stephen V. Sprinkle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 13,000 Americans have been murdered in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries because of their sexual orientation and gender presentation. In Unfinished Lives: Reviving the Memory of LGBTQ Hate Crimes Victims, Stephen Sprinkle puts a human face on the outrage and loss suffered when people die from anti-gay hatred. Beginning with new developments in the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in Laramie, Wyoming, Sprinkle tells the stories of fourteen representative LGBTQ victims whose lives were savagely cut short due to homophobia and transphobia. These are stories about people who could be your neighbor, classmate, co-worker, or friend-real, everyday people whose love was foreclosed, relationships brutally terminated, and future contributions stolen from us by outrageous, irrational hatred. Told lovingly yet unflinchingly, Unfinished Lives lifts the stories of these LGBTQ victims from undeserved obscurity, allowing their memory to live again. Relying on personal interviews and visits to the locations where these people lived, loved, and died, Sprinkle records the raw emotions, powerful movements for social change, and unexpectedly hopeful communities that arise from the ruins of those people whose only "offense" was to live as they were born to be. Part portraiture, part crime narrative, and part ethnography, Unfinished Lives is poised to change the conversation on hate crimes in the United States.