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Piney Woods School: An Oral History

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034541
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Piney Woods School: An Oral History written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of an extraordinary school in the piney woods of Mississippi and of the enduring people of Piney Woods Community who forged on against incredible odds to make a better world for themselves and their children. To these poor backwoods turn-of-the-century African Americans of Rankin County, Mississippi, Laurence C. Jones (1882-1975) brought the Booker T. Washington model of training African Americans to be good workers. Because the school followed Jim Crow social codes and mirrored what were then expedient race relations in the South, Piney Woods School thrived without controversy and with encouragement from Mississippi whites. It served a noble purpose by opening its doors for the educational training of underprivileged rural African American students as well as for the visually and physically impaired of the state at a time when there was absolutely no other institution for them. Piney Woods School: An Oral History is based upon a series of interviews with e

The Madman of Piney Woods

Author : Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545633761
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Madman of Piney Woods written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant companion to Elijah of Buxton, two boys united by tragedy find friendship and adventure in the Canadian woods. Benji and Red couldn’t be more different. They aren’t friends. They don’t even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest, watching them, tracking them. Could the Madman of Piney Woods be real? In a tale brimming with intrigue and adventure, Christopher Paul Curtis returns to the vibrant world he brought to life in Elijah of Buxton. Here is another novel that will break your heart—and expand it, too. This critically acclaimed story by National Book Award finalist Christopher Paul Curtis joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes extra bonus content! Praise for The Madman of Piney Woods “Humor and tragedy are often intertwined, and readers will find themselves sobbing and chuckling, sometimes in the same scene.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “A delight, featuring the author’s obvious love for his characters, his skillful use of sentiment, and his often hyperbolic humor.” —Booklist, Starred Review “Heady stuff. Funny stuff. Smart stuff. Good stuff. Better get your hands on this stuff.” —School Library Journal “So suspenseful . . . Curtis deftly makes what might have been simply heart-rending hopeful and redeeming instead . . . A thrill ride of a plot.” —TheNew York Times

Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods

Author : Mitchel Whitington
Publisher : 23 House Pubishing
ISBN 13 : 9780970672988
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods written by Mitchel Whitington and published by 23 House Pubishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ghostly guide to the haunts of East Texas, you’ll find many strange tales... • The spirit of a young bride who etched her name in her bedroom window glass on her wedding day many years ago, and continues to visit that room to this day... • An old, creaking staircase where phantoms from a time long ago wander up and down during the wee hours of the night... • An Indian brave in full battle regalia who is said to appear at the site of a terrible East Texas massacre... You'll read about these spirits and many, many more – all from the Pineywoods region of the Lone Star State.

Piney Woods and Its Story

Author : Laurence Clifton Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Piney Woods and Its Story written by Laurence Clifton Jones and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deep in Piney Woods

Author : J. W. Church
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Deep in Piney Woods written by J. W. Church and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Piney Wood Atlas: the Northwest

Author : Carolina Porras &
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781366038203
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Piney Wood Atlas: the Northwest written by Carolina Porras & and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piney Wood Atlas is a project by Carolina Porras & Alicia Toldi that catalogues small, emerging, and unconventional artist residencies around the United States. This book focuses on the Northwest region.

Piney Woods Memories

Author : Carolyn C Dew
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426954530
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Piney Woods Memories written by Carolyn C Dew and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was a little girl, my parents discussed Moving to the future home. Now that I am an adult, this phrase Comes back to me in my mind. The concept of future home implied to me That we would be moving to another place. How appropriate this future home memory Depicts my every-changing life.

Whistle in the Piney Woods

Author : Robert S. Maxwell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410617
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Whistle in the Piney Woods written by Robert S. Maxwell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the founding of the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad, its symbiotic relationship with forests and the lumber industry and its role in the development of East Texas.

Aunt Puss & Others

Author : Emma Wilson Emery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Aunt Puss & Others written by Emma Wilson Emery and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emma Wilson Emery (1885-1970) spent her childhood in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. She later lived in Nacogdoches, Tex., and worked as typesetter for the Daily Plaindealer. She graduated from nursing school at Shreveport, La., in 1911 and later became the first poet laureate of Louisiana between 1942 and 1970."--Louisiana State University.

The Little Professor of Piney Woods

Author : Beth Day Romulo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Little Professor of Piney Woods written by Beth Day Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Professor, a northern Negro, established a school in the south to help Negro children achieve a new way of life.

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Author : Antoinette D. Handy
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461623596
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The International Sweethearts of Rhythm written by Antoinette D. Handy and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a popular women's jazz band of the 1940s, has earned a reputation as the 'best all-women's swing band ever to perform.' This revised and updated edition provides fascinating reading for jazz enthusiasts and students of American history, music, and women's history. It is the most comprehensive and objective history of the band to date. Handy documents all sides of the band's controversial story and interviews members of the band. She updates the careers of band members who remained in the music business. Accompanied by an extensive bibliography and many photographs.

Who's who in Colored America

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Colored America written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pine Torch

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Pine Torch written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811577
Total Pages : 2548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Mississippi Encyclopedia written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 2548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.

Sam Myers

Author : Sam Myers
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604731451
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Sam Myers written by Sam Myers and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Myers: The Blues Is My Story recounts the life of bluesman Sam Myers (1936-2006), as told in his own words to author Jeff Horton. Myers grew up visually handicapped in the Jim Crow South and left home to attend the state school for the blind at Piney Woods. Myers's intense desire to become a musician and a scholarship from the American Conservatory School of Music called him to Chicago. There in 1952 he joined Elmore James's band as a drummer and was featured on some of James's best-known recordings. Following the elder bluesman's death in 1963, Myers fronted bands of his own and recorded many well-received singles and albums. In 1986, Myers became the W. C. Handy Award-winning front man, vocalist, and harmonica player for Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets. Throughout the book, Myers provides a historical context to a bygone era of the blues and reveals his own thoughts and feelings about the musicians with whom he played. And they are a list of who's who in the blues-Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor, and Robert Lockwood Junior in addition to Elmore James. In one chapter, Myers describes a personalized deeper meaning to the blues. And in another he relates a series of anecdotes about the lighter side of life on the road. Contributions from Myers's father and stories from a boyhood friend round out the narrative. Dallas musician Brian “Hash Brown” Calway dissects the more technical aspects of Myers's harmonica style. Long-time friend and bandmate, Anson Funderburgh, weighs in with a chapter about their songwriting methods and offers some of his own recollections on their twenty years together.

Sweet Tea

Author : E. Patrick Johnson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882739
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Tea written by E. Patrick Johnson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive" and offers a window into the ways black gay men negotiate their identities, build community, maintain friendship networks, and find sexual and life partners--often in spaces and activities that appear to be antigay. Ultimately, Sweet Tea validates the lives of these black gay men and reinforces the role of storytelling in both African American and southern cultures.

Work Requirements

Author : Todd Carmody
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147802268X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Work Requirements written by Todd Carmody and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of industrial print technologies, the expansion of literacy, and the rise of professionalization. In Work Requirements Todd Carmody asks how work, even the most debasing or unproductive labor, came to be seen as inherently meaningful during this era. He explores how the print culture of social welfare—produced by public administrators, by economic planners, by social scientists, and in literature and the arts—tasked people on the social and economic margins, specifically racial minorities, incarcerated people, and people with disabilities, with shoring up the fundamental dignity of work as such. He also outlines how disability itself became a tool of social discipline, defined by bureaucratized institutions as the inability to work. By interrogating the representational effort necessary to make work seem inherently meaningful, Carmody ultimately reveals a forgotten history of competing efforts to think social belonging beyond or even without work.