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Author : Dirk R. Spennemann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921220036
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Buses Up & Down the Murray written by Dirk R. Spennemann and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Person
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250274206
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Buses Are a Comin' written by Charles Person and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists—including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Reverend Benjamin Elton Cox, journalist and pacifist James Peck, and CORE field secretary Genevieve Hughes—set out to discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and restrooms nationwide. Two buses proceeded through Virginia, North and South Carolina, to Georgia where they were greeted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and finally to Alabama. There, the Freedom Riders found their answer: No. Southern states would continue to disregard federal law and use violence to enforce racial segregation. One bus was burned to a shell, its riders narrowly escaping; the second, which Charles rode, was set upon by a mob that beat several riders nearly to death. Buses Are a Comin’ provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in America, as Charles Person accompanies his colleagues off the bus, into the station, into the mob, and into history to help defeat segregation’s violent grip on African American lives. It is also a challenge from a teenager of a previous era to the young people of today: become agents of transformation. Stand firm. Create a more just and moral country where students have a voice, youth can make a difference, and everyone belongs.
Author : Troy R. Saxby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469654938
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Pauli Murray written by Troy R. Saxby and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (1910–1985) was a trailblazing social activist, writer, lawyer, civil rights organizer, and campaigner for gender rights. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was active in radical left-wing political groups and helped innovate nonviolent protest strategies against segregation that would become iconic in later decades, and in the 1960s, she cofounded the National Organization for Women (NOW). In addition, Murray became the first African American to receive a Yale law doctorate and the first black woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. Yet, behind her great public successes, Murray battled many personal demons, including bouts of poor physical and mental health, conflicts over her gender and sexual identities, family traumas, and financial difficulties. In this intimate biography, Troy Saxby provides the most comprehensive account of Murray's inner life to date, revealing her struggles in poignant detail and deepening our understanding and admiration of her numerous achievements in the face of pronounced racism, homophobia, transphobia, and political persecution. Saxby interweaves the personal and the political, showing how the two are always entwined, to tell the life story of one of twentieth-century America's most fascinating and inspirational figures.
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Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
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Author : Veronica Brodie
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862545571
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (455 download)
Download or read book My Side of the Bridge written by Veronica Brodie and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica Brodie is an Aboriginal woman of Ngarrindjeri-Kaurna descent. and grew up at Ruakkan near Victor Harbor. Veronica was involved in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge affair, on the side of the Ngarrindjeri women who knew of the secret women's business and sought to stop the construction of the bridge.
Author : John H. White
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253005582
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Wet Britches and Muddy Boots written by John H. White and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Succeeds admirably as an introductory survey of the early American travel experience”—from the National Book Award-nominated author (Journal of Transport History). What was travel like in the 1880s? Was it easy to get from place to place? Were the rides comfortable? How long did journeys take? Wet Britches and Muddy Boots describes all forms of public transport from canal boats to oceangoing vessels, passenger trains to the overland stage. Trips over long distances often involved several modes of transportation and many days, even weeks. Baggage and sometimes even children were lost en route. Travelers might start out with a walk down to the river to meet a boat for the journey to a town where they caught a stagecoach for the rail junction to catch the train for a ride to the city. John H. White Jr. discusses not only the means of travel but also the people who made the system run—riverboat pilots, locomotive engineers, stewards, stagecoach drivers, seamen. He provides a fascinating glimpse into a time when travel within the United States was a true adventure. “Throughout this massive work, the author repeatedly captures the romance, flavor, and color associated with travel.”—Choice “Every chapter, in any order, will constitute a well-spent and informative read. Journey with this book soon!”—National Railway Historical Society Bulletin “[A] popular history, informative and engaging . . . White has given us a book that’s as unusual as it is useful. Read it cover-to-cover or just pick out a random chapter in a stolen hour, and the book will be equally enjoyable either way.”—Railroad History
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
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Author : Rich Jones
Publisher : StoryUp Media
ISBN 13 : 1916826059
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (168 download)
Download or read book Charlie Four Kilo written by Rich Jones and published by StoryUp Media. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a series of events that were out of his control, Jones finds himself rubbing shoulders with the unpredictable characters that live within the shadows of the criminal underworld. "Charlie Four Kilo" delves deep into the chaotic, dangerous and manipulative world of organised crime. We follow Jones as he desperately tries to free himself from the poisonous lifestyle that becomes his new reality... his exploits throughout Europe, the life-threatening entanglements with thugs from all over the world, and finally to his eventual capture ending with a 15-year prison sentence. "Charlie Four Kilo" is based on true events. All names and locations have been changed to protect the guilty.
Author : Bill Simon
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
ISBN 13 : 0855756772
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Back on the Block written by Bill Simon and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn't want him, and that he was the scum of the earth and was locked up in the notorious Kinchela Boys Home for eight years. His experiences there would shape his life forever. This title tells his story.
Author : David Reid
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429987685
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Suffer in Silence written by David Reid and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping novel of men training to become Navy SEALs who are pushed to their physical and mental limits---and what happens when those thresholds are crossed... in David Reid's Suffer in Silence It's the pivotal test faced by every Navy SEAL: one hundred twenty sleepless hours of relentless physical punishment, interrupted only by hypothermia-inducing surf torture. Ensign Grey thought he knew what to expect, but when Seaman Murray attempts to blackmail an instructor who is determined to see him fail, Hell Week takes on a new meaning. With deteriorating health and a dangerous enemy in hot pursuit, the two unlikely friends struggle to survive. What happens in the darkness at the edge of the Pacific will change their lives forever.
Author : Joanna Scott
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 031602886X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Tourmaline written by Joanna Scott and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly imagined novel from award-winning Joanna Scott. In the mid-1950s, an American family travels to an island off the coast of Italy to make a fortune in gemstones.
Author : Zoë Howe
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250030234
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Jesus and Mary Chain written by Zoë Howe and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musically, culturally and even in terms of sheer attitude, the Jesus and Mary Chain stand alone. Their seminal debut album Psychocandy changed the course of popular music, and their iconic blend of psychotic white noise and darkly surreal lyrics that presaged the shoegaze movement continues to enchant and confound. Zoë Howe's biography is the fierce, frank and funny tale of the Jesus and Mary Chain, told by the band members and their associates for the very first time. The story begins in the faceless town of East Kilbride, near Glasgow, at the dawn of the 1980s with two intense, chronically shy brothers, Jim and William Reid, listening to music in their shared bedroom. What follows charts an unforgettable journey complete with incendiary live performances, their pivotal relationship with Alan McGee's Creation Records and those famous fraternal tensions—with plenty of feedback, fighting, and crafting perfect pop music along the way. It is high time this vastly influential group and sometime public enemy had their say.
Author : Peter Hargitai
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595843085
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book MILLIE written by Peter Hargitai and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sensitive and powerful, Peter Hargitai's novel Millie brims with passion and wit. Its hero, Art Nagy, is a Hungarian Alex Portnoy, forging anew an identity on the edge of two cultures Millie is destined to take a distinguished place on the shelf of world literature." -Lili Bita Author of Sister of Darkness "In this darkly comic novel about a refugee boy's coming-of-age in 1960's America, Peter Hargitai does for Cleveland's Hungarians what Herbert Gold did for its Jews-bring to life the quirks, prejudices, and strivings of a people struggling to make it in an alien land." -Sanford J. Smoller Contributing editor of Pembroke Magazine and author of Adrift Among Geniuses: Robert McAlmon, Writer and Publisher of the Twenties "Hargitai's prose is swift, sure, and irresistible. Reminiscent of Kundera." -Apalachee Quarterly PETER HARGITAI's Millie is a novel that touches the heart. In a story of the quintessential American dream, immigration, Hargitai tells of the coming-of-age of Art Nagy, a young Hungarian who arrives in America after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against Soviet-Communist occupation. Art struggles to make sense of life not only as an adolescent but also within his family who insist on transplanting many of their customs and much of their thinking from their country of origin, including less than attractive ideas about race and class. Art's likes and dislikes and the friends he chooses bring the family to clash over values and beliefs, and culminate in tragedy when he falls in love with a girl from a different background. His deep love for Millie pits him against everything his family believes in . And the final pages of the novel reveal acts of horror in his family's past and explain much of what Art Nagy was up against. Every page keeps the reader fascinated, unable to put it down until the very end. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Editor Comparative Cultural Studies Series Purdue University Press
Author : Patrick Parr
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641601817
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (416 download)
Download or read book One Week in America written by Patrick Parr and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Masterfully researched and beautifully written, One Week in America is . . . an important piece of history full of larger-than-life characters and unlikely heroes." —Jonathan Eig, author of Ali: A Life The major players in this story are names that just about every American has heard of: Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King Jr., Norman Mailer, Lyndon B. Johnson, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, William F. Buckley Jr. For one chaotic week in 1968, college students, talented authors, and presidential candidates grappled with major events. The result was one of the most historic literary festivals of the twentieth century One Week in America is a day-by-day narrative of the 1968 Notre Dame Sophomore Literary Festival and the national events that grabbed the spotlight that April week. On one particular week, sixties politics and literature came together on campus.
Author : Sean O'Leary
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Drifting written by Sean O'Leary and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broke, lost, and trying to escape a past that haunts him, Ben drifts into Geraldton. At the Outback Bar, he meets barmaid Kelly. She’s nothing like he expects, and Ben is entranced. Strong and determined, Kelly encourages Ben to write. With her, he feels he can reconcile his past. That he can become somebody more than he is. But Kelly has her own secrets - secrets that Ben tries to navigate. He feels the past tearing at him, and the possibilities of the future daunting. A gritty cult-classic in the making, Sean O'Leary's DRIFTING is a story of love, truth and finding a voice.
Author : Bob Probert
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1617493104
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Tough Guy written by Bob Probert and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting his notorious career with the Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks, Bob Probert details in this autobiography how he racked up points, penalty minutes, and bar bills, establishing himself as one of the most feared enforcers in the history of the NHL. As Probert played as hard off the ice as on, he went through rehab 10 times, was suspended twice, was jailed for carrying cocaine across the border, and survived a near fatal motorcycle crash all during his professional career, and he wanted to tell his story in his own words to set the record straight. When he died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 45 on July 5, 2010, he was hard at work on his memoir—a gripping journey through the life of Bob Probert, with jaw-dropping stories of his on-ice battles and his reckless encounters with drugs, alcohol, police, customs officials, courts, and the NHL, told in his own voice and with his rich sense of humor.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Canadian Transportation written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
