The Billingsley Family (Billingsly-Billingslea) in America
Author : Harry Alexander Davis
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Page : 977 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 1936
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Author : Harry Alexander Davis
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Page : 977 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 1936
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Author : Katherine Fletcher
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2014-11-11
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ISBN : 9781505205558
The Billingsley Family History includes their beginnings from Shropshire England to their immigration to America. Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee, Texas genealogy lines.
Author : Harry Alexander Davis
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
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Author : Andrew Billingsley
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 1968
Category : African American children
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Author : Andrew Billingsley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0671677098
To help the reader understand the African-American family in its broad historical, social, and cultural context, the author traces the rich history of the black family from its roots in Africa, through slavery, Reconstruction, the Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and up to the present.
Author : ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451639716
From the national Essence bestselling author comes an engaging tale about a family secret that sends one young woman scrambling to uncover the truth about her past. Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction “tackles some of life’s toughest situations” (The Florida Times-Union), unravels the secrets in a mother’s past that turn her daughter’s life upside down—by revealing the family she never knew existed. Her dream of studying dance at Juilliard is within reach, but Olivia Dawson turns down the opportunity, choosing instead to stay with her ailing mother in the Houston projects where they barely make ends meet. Lorraine Dawson is Olivia’s whole world, and now Olivia insists on being there for her. But when Lorraine learns Olivia is sacrificing college for her sake, her heartache triggers a series of shattering events that results in Olivia discovering her father, a man she was told had died years ago. But he is alive and well—and he’s the powerful CEO of one of the country’s richest corporations. With her best friend urging her to claim a much-deserved chunk of Bernard Wells’s fortune, Olivia seeks out his Los Angeles mansion. But it’s not money she wants—it’s answers: Why did he abandon Lorraine when Olivia was three years old? Why did they suffer in poverty while he gave his “real” wife and son a life of luxury? Opening up the past, however, is more complicated than Olivia—or Bernard—expected, and the pain of yesterday’s sins must be confronted before true healing and a bright tomorrow can begin.
Author : Judy Dye
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 1984
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Supplementary Billingsley data submitted by various descendants and interested patrons. Also a continuation of the work begun by Harry Alexander Davis entitled, "The Billingsley family (Billingsly - Billingslea) in America." Chiefly covers the late 1800's and the 1900's, with some earlier data (including some in the 1500's in England). Includes some corrected data.
Author : Andrew Billingsley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1643362151
A sociological approach to appreciating the heroism and legacy of the Gullah statesman On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor and piloted the vessel to cheering seamen of the Union blockade, thus securing his place in the annals of Civil War heroics. Slave, pilot, businessman, statesman, U.S. congressman—Smalls played many roles en route to becoming an American icon, but none of his accomplishments was a solo effort. Sociologist Andrew Billingsley offers the first biography of Smalls to assess the influence of his families—black and white, past and present—on his life and enduring legend. In so doing, Billingsley creates a compelling mosaic of evolving black-white social relations in the American South as exemplified by this famous figure and his descendants. Born a slave in Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was raised with his master's family and grew up amid an odd balance of privilege and bondage which instilled in him an understanding of and desire for freedom, culminating in his daring bid for freedom in 1862. Smalls served with distinction in the Union forces at the helm of the Planter and, after the war, he returned to Beaufort to buy the home of his former masters—a house that remained at the center of the Smalls family for a century. A founder of the South Carolina Republican Party, Smalls was elected to the state house of representatives, the state senate, and five times to the United States Congress. Throughout the trials and triumphs of his military and public service, he was surrounded by growing family of supporters. Billingsley illustrates how this support system, coupled with Smalls's dogged resilience, empowered him for success. Writing of subsequent generations of the Smalls family, Billingsley delineates the evolving patterns of opportunity, challenge, and change that have been the hallmarks of the African American experience thanks to the selfless investments in freedom and family made by Robert Smalls of South Carolina.
Author : Carolyn Earle Billingsley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820325101
Billingsley reminds us that, contrary to the accepted notion of rugged individuals heeding the proverbial call of the open spaces, kindred groups accounted for most of the migration to the South's interior and boundary lands. In addition, she discusses how, for antebellum southerners, the religious affiliation of one's parents was the most powerful predictor of one's own spiritual leanings, with marriage being the strongest motivation to change them. Billingsley also looks at the connections between kinship and economic and political power, offering examples of how Keesee family members facilitated and consolidated their influence and wealth through kin ties.
Author : Robert Joseph Taylor
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780803952911
Most studies of Black families have had a `problem focus', offering a narrow view of important issues such as out-of-wedlock births, single-parent families and childhood poverty. Family Life in Black America moves away from this negative perspective and instead deals with a wide range of issues including sexuality, procreation, infancy, adulthood, adolescence, cohabitation, parenting, grandparenting and ageing. A fresh aspect of this book is the amount of diversity it reveals within black families and the forces that shape, limit and enhance them.