Ida May
Author : Mary Hayden (Green) Pike
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Mary Hayden (Green) Pike
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1854
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Author : Delores Thornton
Publisher : Marguerite Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780965658492
A combined edition of the original Ida Mae and Ida Mae: the saga continues.
Author : Sherri L. Smith
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 35,6 MB
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0142417254
For fans of Unbroken and Ruta Sepetys. All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when she's in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until America enters World War II, and the Army forms the WASP-Women Airforce Service Pilots. Ida has a chance to fulfill her dream if she's willing to use her light skin to pass as a white girl. She wants to fly more than anything, but Ida soon learns that denying one's self and family is a heavy burden, and ultimately it's not what you do but who you are that's most important. Read Sherri L. Smith's posts on the Penguin Blog
Author : Megan Willome
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2016-03-20
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ISBN : 9781943120147
Part memoir, part humorous and poignant defense of poetry, this is a book that shows you what it is to live a life with poems at your side (and maybe in your Topo Chico(r)). Megan Willome's story is one you won't want to put down; meanwhile, her uncanny ability to reveal the why's and how's of poetry keeps calling-to even the biggest poetry doubter. If you already enjoy poetry, her story and her wisdom and her ways will invite you to go deeper, with novel ideas on how to engage with poems. A great title for retreats, poets & writers' groups, and book clubs. Or, if you're a teacher who has ever been asked, "Why poetry?," this book is the ready answer you've been needing. Includes extras like how to keep a poetry journal (this is not just about putting poems in a journal!), how to be a poetry buddy, and how to take a poetry dare.
Author : Mary Ann Hendon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2010-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0557388848
Tom Thompson joined the US Army Field Artillery in March of 1942. When Tom was posted away from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he wrote his wife Ida Mae a letter almost every day.
Author : Bobby L. Johnson
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681393484
Meet Ida Mae Daughtry. This novel is about a young Black girl from the small gritty town of East St. Louis, Illinois. She believes in herself and, with imagination and a growing spirituality, pursues the American dream. She experiences defeat and victory. She keeps her emotions under control. Her world has a background of casual sex, dope, and violence. With little provocation, Ida Mae will hurt you. She has seen Black life at various levels and wants more than just to be another poor Black girl.
Author : Isabel Wilkerson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0307946525
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, in old age, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1945 fled Florida for Harlem, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, saw his family fall, and finally found peace in God; and Robert Foster, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties. Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, faith, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, and hard work. Both a riveting microcosm and a major assessment, The Warmth of Other Suns is a bold, remarkable, and riveting work, a superb account of an “unrecognized immigration” within our own land. Through the breadth of its narrative, the beauty of the writing, the depth of its research, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, this book is destined to become a classic. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Ida Mae Middlestadt
Publisher :
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 1982
Category : American newspapers
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Author : Campbell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2003-06-01
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ISBN : 9780615829432
Author : William F. Gavin
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429974184
One Hell of a Candidate traces the fate of Republican Congressman T. Claude "Buzzer" LeBrand who hails from the Sixth--an imaginary Southern district that has fallen on hard economic times. Poor Buzzer has barely survived his last election when videotape of him frolicking with bikini-clad bimbos in St. Kitts ends up on the evening news. And just as his political career lacks any sort of pulse, Buzzer has a heart attack in a D.C. Metro station, hits his head on the escalator, and falls into a coma. As Buzzer's life hangs in the balance, the machinations to fill his seat in Congress begin. A slew of politically hopeless characters emerge in the battle for Buzzer's seat. Among them are Bobby Diddie Ricky, a handsome black Democrat who is a former pro football star running on the largely inane "Team Concept." "Holy Joe" Wholey who believes the Ten Commandments should be amended into the Constitution. Bo Beaumont, owner/tyrant of Big Bo Stores and Republican kingpin. Susan Weinstein, a Jewish lebsian Marxist down from New York to teach the ignorant people of the Sixth what's best for them. And of course, Buzzer's wife Georgie, who if she can put down the bottle and remember the message, would make one hell of a candidate.