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The Smell of Burning Crosses

Author : Ira Harkey

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 191 pages

File Size : 25,8 MB

Release : 2019-10-29

Category : History

ISBN : 1496824865

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Journalist Ira Harkey (1918–2006) risked it all when he advocated for James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi as the first African American student in 1962. Preceded by a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court and violent, deadly rioting, Meredith’s admission constituted a pivotal moment in civil rights history. At the time, Harkey was editor of the Chronicle in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where he published pieces in support of Meredith and the integration of Ole Miss. In 1963, Harkey won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing after firmly articulating his advocacy of change. Originally published in 1967, this book is Harkey’s memoir of the crisis and what it was like to be a white integrationist editor in fiercely segregationist Mississippi. He recounts conversations with University of Mississippi officials and the Ku Klux Klan’s attempts to intimidate him and muzzle his work. The memoir’s title refers to a burning cross set on the lawn of his home, which occurred in addition to the shot fired at his office. Reprinted for the fifth time, this book features a new introduction by historian William Hustwit.



The Smell of Burning Crosses

Author : Ira Harkey

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 13,30 MB

Release : 2019-10-29

Category : History

ISBN : 1496824881

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Journalist Ira Harkey (1918–2006) risked it all when he advocated for James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi as the first African American student in 1962. Preceded by a legal battle that went all the way to the Supreme Court and violent, deadly rioting, Meredith’s admission constituted a pivotal moment in civil rights history. At the time, Harkey was editor of the Chronicle in Pascagoula, Mississippi, where he published pieces in support of Meredith and the integration of Ole Miss. In 1963, Harkey won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing after firmly articulating his advocacy of change. Originally published in 1967, this book is Harkey’s memoir of the crisis and what it was like to be a white integrationist editor in fiercely segregationist Mississippi. He recounts conversations with University of Mississippi officials and the Ku Klux Klan’s attempts to intimidate him and muzzle his work. The memoir’s title refers to a burning cross set on the lawn of his home, which occurred in addition to the shot fired at his office. Reprinted for the fifth time, this book features a new introduction by historian William Hustwit.



Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism

Author : Jan Whitt

Publisher : University Press of America

Page : 171 pages

File Size : 20,20 MB

Release : 2010

Category : History

ISBN : 0761849556

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Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement celebrates the contributions of the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing (1964). Owner and publisher of four weekly newspapers in Mississippi, Smith began her journalism career as a states rights Dixiecrat and segregationist, but became an icon for progressive thought on racial and ethnic issues. Though befriended by editors such as Hodding Carter Jr. and Ira B. Harkey Jr., Smith was a target of the White Citizens' Council and was boycotted by advertisers. During the civil rights movement, a cross was burned in her yard and one of her newspaper offices was firebombed. Before her death in 1994, she endured foreclosure, memory loss, and public humiliation, but she never lost faith in journalism or in the power of informed debate.



Cross Examined

Author : John W. Campbell

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 619 pages

File Size : 40,75 MB

Release : 2021-09-15

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1633886859

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Christianity is more than just a religion. It is a social organism that affects the lives of every person on earth in significant ways, even if they are not Christians themselves. In the United States its influence is pervasive with often profound influence on public policies, but it is largely unchallenged as a belief system, relegated to that quarantined area outside the zone of polite conversation. Despite much academic ink being allotted to the weaknesses of Christianity as a valid belief system, the general public remains unaware of these flaws. In Cross Examined, John Campbell applies his almost thirty years of experience as a trial lawyer to dissecting Christianity and the case of apologists for the Christian God. He addresses the best arguments for Christianity, those against it, and the reasons people should care about these questions. His purpose is to fill a void in books on atheism and Christianity by systematically taking Christian claims to task and making a full-throated argument for atheism from the perspective of a trial lawyer making a case.



A Death in the Delta

Author : Stephen J. Whitfield

Publisher : JHU Press

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 30,70 MB

Release : 1991-11

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780801843266

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Here is the full, shocking story of the lynching that exposed the true brutality of the nation's tradition of racism to a confident prosperous post-World War II America and helped ignite the 1960s civil rights movement.



The Fiery Cross

Author : Diana Gabaldon

Publisher : Dell

Page : 994 pages

File Size : 34,67 MB

Release : 2002-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0440333881

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The fifth book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].”—CNN The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Born in the year of Our Lord 1918, Claire Randall served England as a nurse on the battlefields of World War II, and in the aftermath of peace found fresh conflicts when she walked through a cleftstone on the Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander, an English lady in a place where no lady should be, in a time—1743—when the only English in Scotland were the officers and men of King George’s army. Now wife, mother, and surgeon, Claire is still an outlander, out of place, and out of time, but now, by choice, linked by love to her only anchor—Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes.



Hazel Brannon Smith

Author : Jeffery B. Howell

Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 49,12 MB

Release : 2017-03-22

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1496810821

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Hazel Brannon Smith (1914-1994) stood out as a prominent white newspaper owner in Mississippi before, during, and after the civil rights movement. As early as the mid-1940s, she earned state and national headlines by fighting bootleggers and corrupt politicians. Her career was marked by a progressive ethic, and she wrote almost fifty years of columns with the goal of promoting the health of her community. In the first half of her career, she strongly supported Jim Crow segregation. Yet, in the 1950s, she refused to back the economic intimidation and covert violence of groups such as the Citizens" Council. The subsequent backlash led her to being deemed a social pariah, and the economic pressure bankrupted her once-flourishing newspaper empire in Holmes County. Rejected by the white establishment, she became an ally of the black struggle for social justice. Smith's biography reveals how many historians have miscast white moderates of this period. Her peers considered her a liberal, but her actions revealed the firm limits of white activism in the rural South during the civil rights era. While historians have shown that the civil rights movement emerged mostly from the grass roots, Smith's trajectory was decidedly different. She never fully escaped her white paternalistic sentiments, yet during the 1950s and 1960s she spoke out consistently against racial extremism. This book complicates the narrative of the white media and business people responding to the movement's challenging call for racial justice.



The Postwar Decline of American Newspapers, 1945-1965

Author : David R. Davies

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 201 pages

File Size : 38,92 MB

Release : 2006-07-30

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0313086141

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On the surface, the American newspaper industry appears to have changed little from 1945 to 1965, remaining both healthy and prosperous. The number of newspapers in 1965 was about the same as in 1945, while during the twenty-year period advertising revenues increased substantially despite new competition from television. Just as in 1945, the vast majority of newspapers went to press with improved but old-fashioned letterpress methods in 1965. And newspaper reporters still professed a strong, if now somewhat shaken, faith in the federal government at the end of the twenty years. But the surface appearance of both stability and profitability obscured profound change. In the two decades after World War II, the business of newspaper publishing changed significantly in myriad ways. By 1965, editors and publishers had recognized the extent of these changes and were beginning to adjust. Each of the changes was significant of its own accord, and the range of challenges throughout the period combined to transform newspapers and the nation they served by 1965. This transformation was evident, to varying degrees, in newspapers' content, their production methods, their economic position within the overall media marketplace, and their relationship with government. Newspapers - some more than others - made strides to keep up with and overcome some of these challenges. But in each of these areas, newspapers as a group were slow to respond to the problems facing journalism.



Warriors of the Cross

Author : T. R. Graves

Publisher : TINA GRAVES

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 22,38 MB

Release : 2011-04-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1453753427

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Allison La Crosse, beginning a challenging family medicine residency, leaves the protection of her family. With the transfer, her worst nightmares come true. Her closely guarded mystical talents-those which seldom appeared before the move-unleash themselves from her confinement and reveal their presence with very little provocation. Allison's most terrifying power is her compulsion to cure the dying with her touch. Given her career, this gift would be valuable if she were not drawn like a magnet to the ailing person's every symptom. Some of which are fatal. At the hospital and surrounded by life-and-death emergencies, Allison's inability to manage her impulse turns deadly. When it does, her mentor, Brody, rescues her from her own demise. His resuscitation ignites an exciting and tempestuous bond between them. Desperate for a cure, they join forces and embark upon a journey to uncover the origins of Allison's lethal curse. In the midst of their adventure, Allison exposes a secret pursued by many... known by few



Cross Over (The WJA Series)

Author : Aaron Patterson

Publisher : StoneHouse Ink

Page : 807 pages

File Size : 33,55 MB

Release : 2014-03-12

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1624820883

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NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestseller Top #10 Amazon Bestseller #1 Bestseller in Thriller #1 Bestseller in Mystery/Thriller #1 Bestseller in Hard-Boiled Thriller #1 Barnes & Noble Bestseller Top #10 Bestseller on iTunes, and Kobo * * * Cross Over Box Set - all three books in the Mark Appleton Thriller Series together in one neat package of hard-boiled, non-stop twists and turns.* * * CROSS OVER BOX SET CONTAINS THREE BOOKS: Sweet Dreams Dream On In Your Dreams If you like James Patterson's thrillers, Ted Dekker's and Lee Child's suspense, you'll love Cross Over box set. In the first book, SWEET DREAMS, Mark Appleton a hot shot architect living in New York City, is faced with the death of his family. Life turned upside down, he must choose between revenge and justice. In the second book, DREAM ON, Mark embraces his new life and is working with a secret agency known as the WJA. Caught up in a tangled web of lies, he has to go up against a Russian Mobster to save his beloved city. IN YOUR DREAMS finishes up the series with a deadly virus and a choice between reality and the two women he loves. Fans of Tom Clancy, Ted Bell and Michael Connelly will love Aaron Patterson's raw imaginative thrillers. Fans who like Alex Cross and James Patterson's Michael Bennett novels rave about Aaron Patterson's Mark Appleton. After you are done with the Mark Appleton thrillers check out the SARAH STEELE legal thrillers. The first in the series is BREAKING STEELE followed by TWISTING STEELE. This is a fast-paced series for fans of Bones, CSI, and Breaking Bad. REVIEWS: "I would recommend this book to anyone who likes James Patterson or books like his. I can't wait for the next book to come out." --Sandra Labella, Amazon reviewer "I think this is the final in the series. Without giving anything away, the end at first was a complete letdown. Then as I thought through it, it almost made no sense to end it any other way. Risky, but pulled off really well. I think if Tom Clancy crossed genres it would look something like this. Well done." --Roy Bartle *Warning The WJA series is a cross genre series and may bend or break many rules. If you are set in the traditional ways of storytelling this may not be the series for you. Please use caution and only read if you are of an open mind, and crave something off the map and mind-bending. Other Books by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author AARON PATTERSON Sweet Dreams (Book 1) Dream On (Book 2) In your Dreams (Book 3) Triple Thriller Box Set (Mark Appleton Thriller Series) Breaking Steele Twisting Steele Melting Steele Airel (Book 1) Airel (Book 2) Michael (Book 3) Michael (Book 4) Uriel (Book 5) Uriel (Book 6) 19 (Digital Short) The Craigslist Killer (Digital Short) Zombie High (Digital Short) Elena's Secret: A Vampire Diaries story ABOUT THE AUTHOR Aaron is a multi-platform New York Times and USA Today #1 bestselling author of Legal/Hard-Boiled Thrillers. He is an educator for indie publishing and is the Co-Founder of StoneHouse University and speaks all over the country on subjects like eBooks, Amazon and the Future of publishing. Visit Aaron's blog at TheWorstBookEver.blogspot.com Follow Aaron on twitter at twitter.com/Mstersmith Join Aaron on Facebook too!



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