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A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Author : Erica L. Ball
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 46,37 MB
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108493408
A groundbreaking collective biography narrating the history of emancipation through the life stories of women of African descent in the Americas.
Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,90 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Campaign debates
ISBN :
Author : Carl Sandburg
Publisher : HMH
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0544784014
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir. Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature. In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history.
Author : Claire Hartfield
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0544785134
On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture. Archival photos and prints, source notes, bibliography, index.
Author : Robert H. Churchill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108489125
A new interpretation of the Underground Railroad that places violence at the center of the story.
Author : Emil Leopold Jordan
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 1955
Category : North America
ISBN :
Author : Matthew F. Delmont
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2016-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0520284259
"Busing, in which students were transported by school buses to achieve court-ordered or voluntary school desegregation, became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues in the decades after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Examining battles over school desegregation in cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, [this book posits that] school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students, and how antibusing parents and politicians borrowed media strategies from the civil rights movement to thwart busing for school desegregation"--Provided by publisher.
Author : CDL Test Prep Team
Publisher : Test Prep Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2016-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781628451672
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Author : Norman D. Anderson
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780879725327
Anderson (North Carolina State University) is clearly obsessed with the Ferris Wheel. He describes the conception and construction of the first example--at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Imitators and variations are described and illustrated with period photos and patent drawings. An appendix contains 115 pages of patent drawings. A charming, unique book (that will win no graphics awards). Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Emil Leopold Jordan
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Canada
ISBN :