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40 Acres and No Mule

Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813108094
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book 40 Acres and No Mule written by Janice Holt Giles and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears. To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Janice Holt Giles brings the same warmth, humor, and powers of observation that characterize her novels. Enlightening and evocative, personal and universally pertinent, this description of a year of "backaches, fun, low ebbs, and high tides, and above all a year of eminent satisfaction" will be welcomed by Janice Holt Giles's many readers, old and new. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

Author : Harriette Gillem Robinet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439136238
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule written by Harriette Gillem Robinet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.

Forty Acres

Author : Dwayne Smith
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476730539
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Forty Acres written by Dwayne Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A thriller about a Black society with a secret"--

Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule

Author : Debra Ann Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813039862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule written by Debra Ann Reid and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This ground-breaking collection proves that there is still a great deal to learn about the lives of black southerners. The essays offer a counterpoint to the standard story that all African Americans in the rural South found themselves mired in poverty and dependency."--Melissa Walker, author of Southern Farmers and Their Stories "A remarkable achievement. The authors in this collection have retrieved African American farm owners from the margins of history, making clear that life on the land for African Americans not only transcended sharecropping but also shaped the contours of the struggle for freedom and justice."--Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land. ?The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discrimination by the U.S Department of Agriculture. They reveal that despite enormous obstacles, by 1920 a quarter of African American farm families owned their land, and demonstrate that farm ownership was not simply a departure point for black migrants seeking a better life but a core component of the African American experience. Debra A. Reid, professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, is author of Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. Evan P. Bennett is assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University.

Forty Acres and a Mule

Author : Claude F. Oubre
Publisher : Lsu Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807144756
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Forty Acres and a Mule written by Claude F. Oubre and published by Lsu Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978, Claude F. Oubre's Forty Acres and a Mule has since become a definitive study in the history of American Reconstruction. Drawing on a vast collection of government records and newspapers, Oubre examines what he sees as the crucial question of Reconstruction: Why were the far majority of freed slaves denied the opportunity to own land during the Reconstruction era, leaving them vulnerable to a persecution that strongly resembled slavery? Oubre recounts the struggle of black families to acquire land and how the U.S. government agency Freedmen's Bureau both served and obstructed them. This groundbreaking book offers an indispensable resource for anyone eager to understand the evolution of slavery studies.

Forty Acres and a Fool

Author : Roger Welsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616738013
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Forty Acres and a Fool written by Roger Welsch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I've Been Here All the While

Author : Alaina E. Roberts
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812297989
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book I've Been Here All the While written by Alaina E. Roberts and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settlers who coveted this land, and the Native Americans whose holdings it originated from. In nineteenth-century Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma), a story unfolds that ties African American and Native American history tightly together, revealing a western theatre of Civil War and Reconstruction, in which Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Indians, their Black slaves, and African Americans and whites from the eastern United States fought military and rhetorical battles to lay claim to land that had been taken from others. Through chapters that chart cycles of dispossession, land seizure, and settlement in Indian Territory, Alaina E. Roberts draws on archival research and family history to upend the traditional story of Reconstruction. She connects debates about Black freedom and Native American citizenship to westward expansion onto Native land. As Black, white, and Native people constructed ideas of race, belonging, and national identity, this part of the West became, for a short time, the last place where Black people could escape Jim Crow, finding land and exercising political rights, until Oklahoma statehood in 1907.

Reconstruction

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006203586X
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Reconstruction written by Eric Foner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America, with a new introduction from the author. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period—an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.

Integrating the 40 Acres

Author : Dwonna Goldstone
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340855
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Integrating the 40 Acres written by Dwonna Goldstone and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You name it, we can't do it. That was how one African American student at the University of Texas at Austin summed up his experiences in a 1960 newspaper article--some ten years after the beginning of court-mandated desegregation at the school. In this first full-length history of the university's desegregation, Dwonna Goldstone examines how, for decades, administrators only gradually undid the most visible signs of formal segregation while putting their greatest efforts into preventing true racial integration. In response to the 1956 Board of Regents decision to admit African American undergraduates, for example, the dean of students and the director of the student activities center stopped scheduling dances to prevent racial intermingling in a social setting. Goldstone's coverage ranges from the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the University of Texas School of Law had to admit Heman Sweatt, an African American, through the 1994 Hopwood v. Texas decision, which ended affirmative action in the state's public institutions of higher education. She draws on oral histories, university documents, and newspaper accounts to detail how the university moved from open discrimination to foot-dragging acceptance to mixed successes in the integration of athletics, classrooms, dormitories, extracurricular activities, and student recruitment. Goldstone incorporates not only the perspectives of university administrators, students, alumni, and donors, but also voices from all sides of the civil rights movement at the local and national level. This instructive story of power, race, money, and politics remains relevant to the modern university and the continuing question about what it means to be integrated.

The Bone and Sinew of the Land

Author : Anna-Lisa Cox
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610398114
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Bone and Sinew of the Land written by Anna-Lisa Cox and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-hidden stories of America's black pioneers, the frontier they settled, and their fight for the heart of the nation When black settlers Keziah and Charles Grier started clearing their frontier land in 1818, they couldn't know that they were part of the nation's earliest struggle for equality; they were just looking to build a better life. But within a few years, the Griers would become early Underground Railroad conductors, joining with fellow pioneers and other allies to confront the growing tyranny of bondage and injustice. The Bone and Sinew of the Land tells the Griers' story and the stories of many others like them: the lost history of the nation's first Great Migration. In building hundreds of settlements on the frontier, these black pioneers were making a stand for equality and freedom. Their new home, the Northwest Territory--the wild region that would become present-day Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin--was the first territory to ban slavery and have equal voting rights for all men. Though forgotten today, in their own time the successes of these pioneers made them the targets of racist backlash. Political and even armed battles soon ensued, tearing apart families and communities long before the Civil War. This groundbreaking work of research reveals America's forgotten frontier, where these settlers were inspired by the belief that all men are created equal and a brighter future was possible. Named one of Smithsonian's Best History Books of 2018

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro

Author : Joel A. Rogers
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro written by Joel A. Rogers and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Believers

Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780395077320
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Believers written by Janice Holt Giles and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebecca Fowler follows her husband to a Shaker colony in early 19th-century Kentucky. A portrayal of the Shaker way of life.

Freedom's Shore

Author : Russell Duncan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820362050
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Shore written by Russell Duncan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Farmers in America

Author : John Francis Ficara
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813128684
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Black Farmers in America written by John Francis Ficara and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Hour Before Daylight

Author : Jimmy Carter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743211994
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book An Hour Before Daylight written by Jimmy Carter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Carter re-creates his boyhood on a Georgia farm.

Glitz

Author : Philana Marie Boles
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101513179
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Glitz written by Philana Marie Boles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Michelle is tired of her boring, sheltered life. She longs for something real. Then she meets Raquel Marissa Diaz-Raq for short. Sassy, streetwise, and totally fearless, Raq is everything Ann Michelle isn't. She has a voice to die for and the attitude to go with it, and she'll stop at nothing to be a star. All Ann Michelle wants is to go along for the ride. Even if that means leaving home to go on the road with Piper, both girls' favorite hip-hop artist. And shedding her identity along the way to become Glitz, a bolder- but not necessarily better-version of herself. Crackling with authenticity, energy, and heart, Philana Marie Boles's first young adult novel is about the true meaning of friendship and the pitfalls of fame. Watch a Video

Missing from Haymarket Square

Author : Harriette Gillem Robinet
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439136246
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Missing from Haymarket Square written by Harriette Gillem Robinet and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2030-12-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her loving father's major concern is the struggle for better working conditions in factories and mills. Her mother thinks mostly of the terrible injury she has received in a sewing factory. Therefore Dinah Bell must care for herself. But not only herself. She and two other children, Austrian immigrants who do not mind that Dinah is the child of former slaves, not only work twelve-hour days to help support their families with the three dollars a week they each earn, but they do even more. All five families that depend on them for food live together in one rat-and-roach infested room in a Chicago tenement. The children steal, though they hate being thieves. Other concerns vanish, however, when in the spring of 1886, Dinah's father is taken prisoner by the dreaded Pinkertons -- detectives who help factory owners get rid of unions and their organizers. Now, Dinah must find where her father is being held and free him. On May first there is a march of eighty thousand workers, demonstrating for an eight-hour day. The march is why Mr. Noah Bell has been taken prisoner, and the march and its aftermath, the Haymarket Riot, put Dinah in constant danger. Yet she is determined to succeed. Her father must be freed. Once again Harriette Gillem Robinet portrays likeable children, with their needs and struggles, against a background of real events in American history. The result is an exciting story that reveals important truths about the American past.