All the Year Round
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 1889
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Page : 636 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Truman Kella Gibson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 20,1 MB
Release : 2005-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810122928
Winner, 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Certificate of Excellence Recipient, 2007 Hyde Park Historical Society Paul Cornell Award Knocking Down Barriers is the memoir of a life spent making a difference. In 1940, when Truman Gibson reported for duty at the War Department, Washington was like a southern city in its seemingly unalterable segregation and oppressive summer heat. Gibson had no illusions about the nation’s racism, but as a Chicagoan who’d enjoyed the best of the vibrant Black culture of prewar America, he was shocked to find the worst of the Jim Crow South in the capital. What Gibson accomplished as an advocate for African American soldiers—first as a lawyer working for the secretary of war, then as a member of Harry S. Truman’s “Black cabinet”—fueled the struggle for civil rights in the American military. A University of Chicago Law School graduate, Gibson took his fight for racial justice to the corridors of power, arguing against restrictive real estate covenants before the US Supreme Court, opposing such iconic military figures as Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and George C. Marshall to demand the integration of the armed forces, and challenging white control of professional sports by creating a boxing empire that made television history. Filled with firsthand details and little-known stories about key advancements in race relations in the worlds of law, the military, sports, and entertainment, Gibson’s memoir is also an engaging recollection of encounters with the likes of Thurgood Marshall, W. E. B. Du Bois, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Patton, Jackie Robinson, and Joe Louis. Winner of the 2006 Illinois State Historical Society Book Award Certificate of Excellence, Knocking Down Barriers illuminates social milestones that continue to shape race in the United States today.
Author : Lawson Wood
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 11,39 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
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The Bull and the Barriers
Author : Henry Blackburn
Publisher : London : S. Low, Son, & Marston
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Spain
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Author : David Dickinson
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780334133
1905. A young man called James Delaney is dying in a New York hospital. The doctors and the nuns cannot save him. When his life is spared his tycoon father takes it as a miracle and organizes a family pilgrimage to the resting place of the boy's name saint, Saint James the Greater in Santiago de Compostela in Spain, the greatest pilgrimage site of the Middle Ages. The first modern-day pilgrim is killed in Le Puy en Velay in Southern France and Powerscourt is summoned to investigate. The pilgrims' progress across the holy sites is punctuated by further bizarre deaths. After his own life is put in terrible danger Powerscourt finally solves the murders on the day of the Bull Run at Pamplona in Southern Spain where young men race down the cobbled streets pursued by the bulls. The careless are gored to death, but it is up to Powerscourt to beware of the horns and other hidden dangers to finally resolve the Deaths of the Pilgrims.
Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 12817 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 2016-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1786560550
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Miles O. Hayes
Publisher : Pandion Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0981661807
Illustrations, photographs and satellite imagery enhance a narrative that presents hard science and makes it accessible and very human. This is a book that investigates the changing face of the coastline through erosion, hurricanes and climate change. This is a book that matters.
Author : Alexander Fiske-Harrison
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0244638551
The deluxe photo-print edition of the official guide to the Feria of San Fermín, the world famous annual bull-running Fiesta of Pamplona in Spain, with a foreword from the Mayor Of Pamplona, and contributions from John Hemingway, Ernest's grandson, Beatrice Welles, Orson's daughter, the best young foreign runner today, Dennis Clancey (Cpt., ret'd, 101st Airborne Division), the best foreign runner of all time Joe Distler, the Texan rodeo champion Larry Belcher, the most senior photographer of the Pamplona press corp, Jim Hollander, and the most experienced Navarran, Basque and Spanish runners Julen Madina, Miguel Ángel Eguíluz, Jokin Zuasti and Josechu López, all edited and co-authored by former amateur bullfighter and award-winning author Alexander Fiske-Harrison
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Page : 372 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Chess
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