Book Description
Describes the experiences of young Blacks who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the sit-in movement.
Author : Belinda Rochelle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0140384324
Describes the experiences of young Blacks who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the sit-in movement.
Author : Amber Scorah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 073522255X
"A fascinating glimpse into the consciousness of being an outsider in every possible way, and what it takes to find your path into the life you'd like to lead."--Nylon A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries. A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message to China, where the preaching she did was illegal and could result in her expulsion or worse. Here, she had some distance from her community for the first time. Immersion in a foreign language and culture--and a whole new way of thinking--turned her world upside down, and eventually led her to lose all that she had been sure was true. As a proselytizer in Shanghai, using fake names and secret codes to evade the authorities' notice, Scorah discreetly looked for targets in public parks and stores. To support herself, she found work at a Chinese language learning podcast, hiding her real purpose from her coworkers. Now with a creative outlet, getting to know worldly people for the first time, she began to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world and living a fulfilling life. When one of these relationships became an "escape hatch," Scorah's loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse, the only kind of ending possible for a Jehovah's Witness. Shunned by family and friends as an apostate, Scorah was alone in Shanghai and thrown into a world she had only known from the periphery--with no education or support system. A coming of age story of a woman already in her thirties, this unforgettable memoir examines what it's like to start one's life over again with an entirely new identity. It follows Scorah to New York City, where a personal tragedy forces her to look for new ways to find meaning in the absence of religion. With compelling, spare prose, Leaving the Witness traces the bittersweet process of starting over, when everything one's life was built around is gone.
Author : Stephanie Black
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,75 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 9781621085232
After government agent Daniel Lansbury fakes the executions of three religious believers on national television, he and the fugitives Alisa Kent, Ian Roshek, and Ian's sister, Jill face the perilous task of outwitting President Amanda Ryce and her power-hungry Council long enough to escape to freedom. Meanwhile, Daniel's estranged father, Marcus, an underground terrorist leader, is hatching plans to sabotage the breakable trust between Daniel and Ian, put himself in power at the head of the nation, and endanger any hope of bringing to light the wrongs committed against the citizens of a fragile, fledgling nation.
Author : William Kaplan
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Economic sanctions, American
ISBN :
Author : M. James Penton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 11,83 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802079732
M. James Penton offers a comprehensive overview of a remarkable religious movement, from the Witnesses' inauspicious creation by a Pennsylvania preacher in the 1870s to its position as a religious sect with millions of followers world-wide. This second edition features an afterword by the author and an expanded bibliography.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Michael Hirsh
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : 9780553807561
At last, the everyday fighting men who were the first Americans to know the full and horrifying truth about the Holocaust share their astonishing stories. Here we meet the brave souls who--now in their eighties and nineties--have chosen at last to share their stories.
Author : M. James Penton
Publisher : Macmillan of Canada : Maclean-Hunter Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Antigua
ISBN :