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Winston Salem N C City Directory 1920 Vol 18
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Book Synopsis The Life of Madie Hall Xuma by : Wanda A. Hendricks
Download or read book The Life of Madie Hall Xuma written by Wanda A. Hendricks and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Wanda A. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National Congress (ANC) and beyond. Hall Xuma was already known for her social welfare work when she married South African physician and ANC activist Alfred Bitini Xuma. Becoming president of the ANC Women’s League put Hall Xuma at the forefront of fighting racial discrimination as South Africa moved toward apartheid. Hendricks provides the long-overlooked context for the events that undergirded Hall Xuma’s life and work. As she shows, a confluence of history, ideas, and organizations both shaped Hall Xuma and centered her in the histories of Black women and women’s activism, and of South Africa and the United States.
Book Synopsis In Their Own Interests by : Earl Lewis
Download or read book In Their Own Interests written by Earl Lewis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in the workplace. In Their Own Interests presents a cross-section of southern urban blacks—the power-brokers and lesser-knowns, Garvey followers and communist enthusiasts—who came to live in Norfolk between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Lewis seeks to recreate the texture of African-American life by examining the lives of the people after they moved to the city—the jobs and assistance they secured, the houses, families, and institutions they built, the battles they waged, and the culture they shared. In Their Own Interests moves African-American urban and social history beyond the current intellectual crossroads. Drawing on a variety of sources, Lewis tells the interconnected story of race, class, and power in twentieth-century Norfolk. His study has far-reaching implications and should be of wide interest.
Book Synopsis What Earl Scruggs Heard by : Bob Carlin
Download or read book What Earl Scruggs Heard written by Bob Carlin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the story of banjo superstar Earl Scruggs is told, the rich musical environment that produced him is often ignored. During his lifetime Scruggs spun a creation myth around his playing, convincing many that he was the sole originator of a three-finger, up-picking, banjo style. For the first time, this book tells the full story of the music and musicians of the western Carolinas that influenced Earl Scruggs. Based on more than 15 years of in-depth research, this book includes the story of country music recording pioneers Parker and Woolbright, Fisher Hendley and Martin Melody Boys; rare images of area music makers; and the history and development of fiddlers' conventions and radio barn dances. Together, these stories are woven into the biographies of Earl's mentors to reveal the musical atmosphere in which they developed the "three-finger picking" style that so enchanted a young Earl Scruggs.
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by : Library of Congress
Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sawdust in Your Pockets by : Eric Medlin
Download or read book Sawdust in Your Pockets written by Eric Medlin and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, three industries—tobacco, textiles, and furniture—dominated the economy of North Carolina. The first two are well known and documented, being the subject of numerous books, movies, and articles. In contrast, the furniture industry has been mostly ignored by historians, although, at its height, it was nearly as large and influential as these other two concerns. Furniture companies employed thousands of workers and shaped towns, culture, and local life from Hickory to Goldsboro. Sawdust in Your Pockets: A History of the North Carolina Furniture Industry is the first survey of the state’s furniture industry from its cabinetmaking beginnings to its digital present. Historian Eric Medlin shows how the industry transitioned from high-quality, individual pieces to the affordable, mass-produced furniture of High Point and Thomasville factories in the late nineteenth century. He then traces the rise of the industry to its midcentury peak, when North Carolina became the largest furniture-producing state in the country. Medlin discusses how competition, consolidation, and globalization challenged the furniture industry in the late twentieth century and how its businesses, workers, and professionals have adapted and evolved to this day.
Download or read book Daby-Dorby Data written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Derby was born in 1656 and died 13 October 1738 in Holliston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Book Synopsis Rand McNally Bankers Directory and the Bankers Register with List of Attorneys by :
Download or read book Rand McNally Bankers Directory and the Bankers Register with List of Attorneys written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949 by : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bankers' Directory of the United States and Canada by :
Download or read book Bankers' Directory of the United States and Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1. U.S. Master, Alabama-Minnesota. -- v.2. U.S. Master, Missouri-Wyoming. -- v.3. U.S. Operations. -- v.4. International.
Book Synopsis The Washingtons. Volume 5, Part 1 by : Justin Glenn
Download or read book The Washingtons. Volume 5, Part 1 written by Justin Glenn and published by Savas Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth volume of Dr. Justin Glenn’s comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons. Volume One began with the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. It continued the record of their descendants for a total of seven generations. Volume Two highlighted notable family members in the next eight generations of John and Anne Washington’s descendants, including such luminaries as General George S. Patton, the author Shelby Foote, and the actor Lee Marvin. Volume Three traced the ancestry of the early Virginia members of this “Presidential Branch” back in time to the aristocracy and nobility of England and continental Europe. Volume Four resumed the family history where Volume One ended, and it contained Generation Eight of the immigrant John Washington’s descendants. Volume Five now presents Generation Nine, including more than 10,000 descendants. Future volumes will trace generations ten through fifteen, making a total of over 63,000 descendants. Although structured in a genealogical format for the sake of clarity, this is no bare bones genealogy but a true family history with over 1,200 detailed biographical narratives. These in turn strive to convey the greatness of the family that produced not only The Father of His Country but many others, great and humble, who struggled to build that country. ADVANCE PRAISE “I am convinced that your work will be of wide interest to historians and academics as well as members of the Washington family itself. Although the surname Washington is perhaps the best known in American history and much has been written about the Washington family for well over a century, it is surprising that no comprehensive family history has been published. Justin M. Glenn’s The Washingtons: A Family History finally fills this void for the branch to which General and President George Washington belonged, identifying some 63,000 descendants. This is truly a family history, not a mere tabulation of names and dates, providing biographical accounts of many of the descendants of John Washington who settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1657. . . . Each individual section is followed by extensive listings of published and manuscript sources supporting the information presented and errors of identification in previous publications are commented upon as appropriate.” John Frederick Dorman, editor of The Virginia Genealogist (1957-2006) and author of Adventurers of Purse and Person “Decades of reviewing Civil War books have left me surprised and delighted when someone applies exhaustive diligence to a topic not readily accessible. Dr. Glenn surely meets that standard with the meticulous research that unveils the Washington family in gratifying detail—many of them Confederates of interest and importance.” Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy and Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain
Book Synopsis Dry Goods Merchants Trade Journal by :
Download or read book Dry Goods Merchants Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Directory by : American College of Physicians
Download or read book Directory written by American College of Physicians and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dictionary of North Carolina Biography by : William S. Powell
Download or read book Dictionary of North Carolina Biography written by William S. Powell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
Download or read book Rand McNally Bankers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1932-07 with total page 2844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jane Pratt by : Marion Elliott Deerhake
Download or read book Jane Pratt written by Marion Elliott Deerhake and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman. The press reported with great interest how "Miss Jane" won by a landslide with only a $100 campaign budget. She hit the ground running, voting to the pass the Atomic Energy Act, working tirelessly to mitigate a century of flood disasters in western North Carolina, and serving the constituents she knew so well. This first biography of Congresswoman Jane Pratt recounts her youth and fascinating career on Capitol Hill. It also provides a unique federal view of North Carolina's early 20th century history. After working as a rare female newspaper editor in the early 1920s, Pratt became secretary to five tarheel congressmen over some 30 years. Her career spanned the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Pratt's amazing network was a who's who of leaders in North Carolina and Washington, DC. Her decision not to run for re-election offers insight into why 46 years passed before the state elected another woman to Congress.
Book Synopsis A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections by : Richard Upsher Smith
Download or read book A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections written by Richard Upsher Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains letters from the Civil War of a Union officer, his fiancée, and some of their connections. The letters witness to their conviction that the pain of their four-year separation and other deprivations would help purify the country from the sin of slavery.
Book Synopsis Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies by :
Download or read book Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
