Author : Jeffrey I. Richman
Publisher : Green Wood Cemetery
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780966343502
Published for the 160th anniversary of the cemetery, this book includes stories of some of the people buried there, "Civil War generals, murder victims, victims of mass tragedies, inventors, artists, the famous, and the infamous."--Page ix.
Author : Quraysh Ali Lansana
Publisher : Calliope Group
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781733647458
"A beautiful and poignant reminder of the industry, joy and resilience of Black people in America."-Trey Ellis, Peabody and Emmy winning producer of King in the Wilderness andTrue Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me." In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T. Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street. Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history. As we approach the centennial of that tragic event, children have the opportunity through this book to learn and celebrate all that was built in Greenwood.
Author : Michael O'Donnell
Publisher : GMC Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781784945589
A guide to the art of turning delicate bowls and goblets from freshly felled, unseasoned wood
Author : Allison Cobb
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781937658885
A cultural biography of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, and a cry of mourning for a post-9/11 world of perpetual war and environmental violence
Author : Henry Gilbert
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Robin Hood" by Henry Gilbert. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Larry Michael Hackenberg
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Alexandra Kathryn Mosca
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738556505
For generations, Green-Wood Cemetery has played an integral part in New York City's cultural history, serving as a gathering place and a cultural repository. Situated in the historic borough of Brooklyn, the thousands of graves and mausoleums within the cemetery's 478 acres are tangible links and reminders to key events and people who made New York City and America what it is today. The monuments read like a who's who of American greatness and include the names of Leonard Bernstein, F. A. O. Schwarz, Charles L. Tiffany, Samuel Morse, and DeWitt Clinton, among others. A national historic landmark since 2006, Green-Wood is considered one of the preeminent cemeteries in the country and is a living display of the evolving funeral traditions of the city and America as a whole. The cemetery was and remains one of the city's largest open green spaces and a century ago was a social venue for picnics, outings, and political events. Through vintage photographs, Green-Wood Cemetery chronicles the cemetery's rich history and documents how its tradition as a park and a popular tourist attraction continues, drawing 300,000 visitors annually.
Author :
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9780313336041
Presents information about housing construction, beginning with the homes of the first European settlers to the North American colonies, and concluding with the latest trends in construction and design of houses and apartments in the United States.
Author : Peter J. Nash
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738534787
Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 and soon became one of America's foremost tourist attractions. It is the resting place for many notables, including Tiffany, Steinway, and Currier and Ives, but the cemetery also has a hidden baseball history. Green-Wood is home to almost two hundred baseball pioneers: members of the Knickerbocker, Atlantic, and Excelsior Clubs of the nineteenth century; Brooklyn's beloved Charles Ebbets; stadium owners; ball makers; and "the Father of Baseball," Henry Chadwick. The first baseball monument appeared at Green-Wood in 1862 to honor the game's first martyr and star, James Creighton Jr., initiating baseball's tradition of honoring its own with stone or bronze memorials. Green-Wood Cemetery has since served as a model for other tributes, including those found at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Yankee Stadium's Monument Park. Baseball Legends of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, through painstaking research, brings these baseball legends back to life with a compelling array of rare images that tell the story of the game's birth in Brooklyn, New York City, and Hoboken.
Author : Nikki Shannon Smith
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1663990565
Twelve-year-old Lena is aware of racism, but she lives a comfortable life in the segregated but relatively wealthy Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma; but on May 31, 1921 racial tensions explode, and men from downtown Tulsa invade Greenwood, set on killing and destroying the district--and as the violence escalates Lena, her parents, and her older sister search desperately for a safe place to hide from the mob.
