Oral History Interview with Charles Lewis
Author : Charles Lewis
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Page : 11 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Music
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Author : Charles Lewis
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Page : 11 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Music
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Author : Charles D. Lewis
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Depressions
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Interview with Charles Lewis concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Lewis worked at camps in Chillicothe, Ohio (Company 502) and Xenia, Ohio (Company 3542).
Author : Michael Peter Johnson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2015-10-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 081305950X
Brave astronauts, flaring rockets, and majestic launches are only one side of the story of spaceflight. Any mission to space depends on years--if not decades--of work by thousands of dedicated individuals on the ground. These are the people whose voices offer a friendly link to Earth in the void of space, whose hands maneuver rovers across the face of planets, and whose skills guide astronauts home. This book is a long-overdue history of three major centers that have managed important missions since the dawn of the space age. In Mission Control, Michael Johnson explores the famous Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany--each a strategically designed micro-environment responsible for the operation of spacecraft and the safety of passengers. He explains the motivations behind the location of each center and their intricate design. He shows how the robotic spaceflight missions overseen in Pasadena and Darmstadt set these centers apart from Houston, and compares the tracking networks used for different types of spacecraft. Johnson argues that the type of spacecraft and the missions they controlled--not the nations they represented--defined how the centers developed, yet these centers ended up playing vital national roles as space technology became a battleground for international power struggles in the Cold War years and even after. The most visible part of a conflict that was just as real as the wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan and caused great global anxiety, mission control centers have served as symbols of national security in the public eye and pivotal links in the history of modern technology.
Author : Charles Lewis Phillips
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Mormons
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Author : Lida W. McBeath
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 1974
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
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Category : Electronic books
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A typescript of Phyllis I. Lewis' interview with her father, The Arthur T. Lewis Oral History Interview Transcript (March 1971) is 67 pages in length. The interview was conducted as part of a community oral history project at California State College at Fullerton. In the interview, Lewis recalls his childhood in Salt Lake City in the years 1898 to 1915, his travels within the state and the region, travels to Denver and Chicago, and his eventual settlement in California upon retirement.
Author : Lyn O'Grady
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
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Category : Oral history
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Author : Kate Clifford Larson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 33,75 MB
Release : 2021
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 0190096845
Few figures embody the physical courage, unstinting sacrifice, and inspired heroism behind the Civil Rights movement more than Fannie Lou Hamer. For millions hers was the voice that made "This Little Light of Mine" an anthem. Her impassioned rhetoric electrified audiences. At the DemocraticConvention in 1964, Hamer's televised speech took not just Democrats but the entire nation to task for abetting racial injustice, searing the conscience of everyone who heard it. Born in the Mississippi Delta in 1917, Hamer was the 20th child of Black sharecroppers and raised in a world in whichracism, poverty, and injustice permeated the cotton fields. As the Civil Rights Movement began to emerge during the 1950s, she was struggling to make a living with her husband on lands that her forebears had cleared, ploughed, and harvested for generations. When a white doctor sterilized her withouther permission in 1961, Hamer took her destiny into her own hands.Bestselling biographer Kate Clifford Larson offers the first account of Hamer's life for a general audience, capturing and illuminating what made Hamer the electrifying force that she became when she walked onto stages across the country during the 1960s and until her death in 1977. Walk with Medoes justice to the full force of Hamer's activism and example. Based on new sources, including recently opened FBI files and Oval Office transcripts, the biography features interviews with some of the people closest to Hamer and conversations with Civil Rights leaders who fought alongside her.Larson's biography will become the standard account of an extraordinary life.
Author : Jennifer Ritterhouse
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2006-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807877239
In the segregated South of the early twentieth century, unwritten rules guided every aspect of individual behavior, from how blacks and whites stood, sat, ate, drank, walked, and talked to whether they made eye contact with one another. Jennifer Ritterhouse asks how children learned this racial "etiquette," which was sustained by coercion and the threat of violence. More broadly, she asks how individuals developed racial self-consciousness. Parental instruction was an important factor--both white parents' reinforcement of a white supremacist worldview and black parents' oppositional lessons in respectability and race pride. Children also learned much from their interactions across race lines. The fact that black youths were often eager to stand up for themselves, despite the risks, suggests that the emotional underpinnings of the civil rights movement were in place long before the historical moment when change became possible. Meanwhile, a younger generation of whites continued to enforce traditional patterns of domination and deference in private, while also creating an increasingly elaborate system of segregation in public settings. Exploring relationships between public and private and between segregation, racial etiquette, and racial violence, Growing Up Jim Crow sheds new light on tradition and change in the South and the meanings of segregation within southern culture.
Author : United States. Federal Judicial History Office
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Courts
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This work was produced in furtherance of the Center's statutory mandate to conduct, coordinate, and encourage programs relating to the history of the judicial branch ...