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Along Freedom Road

David S. Cecelski
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Author : David S. Cecelski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807860731

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David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students held nonviolent protests daily for five months, marched twice on the state capitol in Raleigh, and drove the Ku Klux Klan out of the county in a massive gunfight. The threatened closing of Hyde County's black schools collided with a rich and vibrant educational heritage that had helped to sustain the black community since Reconstruction. As other southern school boards routinely closed black schools and displaced their educational leaders, Hyde County blacks began to fear that school desegregation was undermining--rather than enhancing--this legacy. This book, then, is the story of one county's extraordinary struggle for civil rights, but at the same time it explores the fight for civil rights in all of eastern North Carolina and the dismantling of black education throughout the South.

Freedom Road

Howard Fast
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Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000076264

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Freedom Road by Howard Fast is a very well written, powerful, historical fiction book. It is set during the reconstruction of the South directly after the Civil War and takes place in South Carolina.

Eliza's Freedom Road

Jerdine Nolen
Eliza s Freedom Road Book PDF

Author : Jerdine Nolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442417234

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Eliza's Freedom Road by Jerdine Nolen Pdf

It is 1852 in Alexandria, Virginia. An orphaned slave, twelve-year-old Eliza has only the quilt her mother left her and the memory of the stories she told. Stories become Eliza’s lifeline to freedom after she takes to the night upon learning she will soon be traded. “Go East. Your back to the set of the sun until you come to the safe house where the candlelight lights the window.” With the words of Old Joe, the farmhand, in her ears, Eliza travels by night and sleeps by day, keeping her diary along the way. Thoroughly researched by award-winning author Jerdine Nolin, Eliza’s Freedom Road brings to life a historical period of pain and triumph. Vivid details and the emotional nature of Eliza’s journal make her journey along the Underground Railroad powerful, accessible, and poignant.

Freedom Road

Howard Fast
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Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765634016

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"Howard Fast makes superb use of his material. ... Aside from its social and historical implications, Freedom Road is a high-geared story, told with that peculiar dramatic intensity of which Fast is a master." -- Chicago Daily News

Freedom Road

Harold Hough
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Author : Harold Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Mobile home living
ISBN : 1559500670

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This is probably the most important section in the while catalog. With the times a'changin' as they are, we all need to better prepared for the uncertain changes ahead. The books in this section will give you a head start. "These distinctive observations and good ideas will appeal to independent-minded individuals seeking a simpler way of living". -- Booklist "For the reader who is not content to be handed away of life by parents, society or mass media..". -- Reading For Pleasure Have you dreamed about leaving the rat race but don't know where to start? This book will show you how to make a plan, eliminate your debts, and buy an RV. You'll learn about beautiful places where you can live for free. You'll learn how to make all the money you'll need from your hobbies. And you'll learn how to live a comfortable, healthy lifestyle on just a few dollars a day. Why wait for retirement when you can live a low-cost, high travel lifestyle today?

Black Wilmington and the North Carolina Way

John L. Godwin
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Author : John L. Godwin
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0761816828

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In this gripping narrative of the development of the Civil Rights movement in North Carolina, Dr. John L. Godwin brings to life the infamous case of the Wilmington Ten and the subsequent allegations of conspiracy. Through extensive research and interviews, he seeks to uncover some of the truth behind the actual events of the 1972 trial, while at the same time drawing readers in with the compelling details of the movement's origins in North Carolina and its ultimate outcome in one community. Dr. Godwin underscores his effort with a comprehensive exploration of the Civil Rights movement through the eyes of the locality, comparing it incisively to the earlier protests of the 1960s. His portrait joins that of scholars who have sought to describe the transformation brought about by black leadership on the local and state level, recounting both its victories and the frustrated hopes of local activists, in addition to how the new conservatism ultimately succeeded in co-opting the movement. For Wilmington, this is set against the background of North Carolina politics and civic culture, highlighting the role of Benjamin Chavis and his rise to national prominence. Filled with pictures that personalize this troubled era of American history, Dr. Godwin's book is an essential resource, not only to historians but also to students of public policy.

The Fire of Freedom

David S. Cecelski
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Author : David S. Cecelski
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807835661

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Examines the life of a former slave who became a radical abolitionist and Union spy, recruiting black soldiers for the North, fighting racism within the Union Army and much more.

The Waterman's Song

David S. Cecelski
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Author : David S. Cecelski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807869727

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The Waterman's Song by David S. Cecelski Pdf

The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers. Demonstrating the vitality and significance of this local African American maritime culture, David Cecelski also reveals its connections to the Afro-Caribbean, the relatively egalitarian work culture of seafaring men who visited nearby ports, and the revolutionary political tides that coursed throughout the black Atlantic. Black maritime laborers played an essential role in local abolitionist activity, slave insurrections, and other antislavery activism. They also boatlifted thousands of slaves to freedom during the Civil War. But most important, Cecelski says, they carried an insurgent, democratic vision born in the maritime districts of the slave South into the political maelstrom of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

State of Defiance

Judith Poucher
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Author : Judith Poucher
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813047621

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Florida Historical Society Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Award Drawing on previously unpublished sources and newly unsealed records, Judith Poucher profiles five individuals who stood up to the Johns Committee. Virgil Hawkins and Ruth Perry were civil rights activists who, respectively, foiled the committee’s plans to stop integration at the University of Florida and refused to divulge Florida and Miami NAACP records. G. G. Mock, a bartender in Tampa, was arrested and shackled in the nude by police but would not reveal the name of her girlfriend, a teacher. University of Florida professor Sig Diettrich was threatened with twenty years in prison and being "outed," yet he still would not name names. Margaret Fisher, a college administrator, helped to bring the committee's investigation of the University of South Florida into the open, publicly condemning their bullying. By reexamining the daring stands taken by these ordinary citizens, Poucher illustrates not only the abuses propagated by the committee but also the collective power of individuals to effect change.

Wheels of Change

Sue Macy
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Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781426328558

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Explore the role the bicycle played in the women's liberation movement.

Freedom Road

William Lashner
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Author : William Lashner
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1503904466

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Chicago. Fresh out of jail, Oliver Cross's plans for the future are to live out his days in regret, back pain, and a bottle of Lone Star. When his granddaughter, a wild child who reminds him of his late wife, vanishes, Oliver jumps parole. With a sketchy teen and an abandoned dog, he hits the blacktop to find her. On the run from a vengeful Russian drug dealer-- and his parole officer-- he's on a journey that could all end in redemption or a hail of bullets. And either is okay by him. -- adapted from back cover

Black Earth

Timothy Snyder
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Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Tim Duggan Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101903469

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A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying. The Holocaust began in a dark but accessible place, in Hitler's mind, with the thought that the elimination of Jews would restore balance to the planet and allow Germans to win the resources they desperately needed. Such a worldview could be realized only if Germany destroyed other states, so Hitler's aim was a colonial war in Europe itself. In the zones of statelessness, almost all Jews died. A few people, the righteous few, aided them, without support from institutions. Much of the new research in this book is devoted to understanding these extraordinary individuals. The almost insurmountable difficulties they faced only confirm the dangers of state destruction and ecological panic. These men and women should be emulated, but in similar circumstances few of us would do so. By overlooking the lessons of the Holocaust, Snyder concludes, we have misunderstood modernity and endangered the future. The early twenty-first century is coming to resemble the early twentieth, as growing preoccupations with food and water accompany ideological challenges to global order. Our world is closer to Hitler's than we like to admit, and saving it requires us to see the Holocaust as it was --and ourselves as we are. Groundbreaking, authoritative, and utterly absorbing, Black Earth reveals a Holocaust that is not only history but warning.

And They Were Wonderful Teachers

Karen L. Graves
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Author : Karen L. Graves
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780252047053

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And They Were Wonderful Teachers by Karen L. Graves Pdf

And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers is a history of state oppression of gay and lesbian citizens during the Cold War and the dynamic set of responses it ignited. Focusing on Florida's purge of gay and lesbian teachers from 1956 to 1965, this study explores how the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, commonly known as the Johns Committee, investigated and discharged dozens of teachers on the basis of sexuality. Karen L. Graves details how teachers were targeted, interrogated, and stripped of their professional credentials, and she examines the extent to which these teachers resisted the invasion of their personal lives. She contrasts the experience of three groups--civil rights activists, gay and lesbian teachers, and University of South Florida personnel--called before the committee and looks at the range of response and resistance to the investigations. Based on archival research conducted on a recently opened series of Investigation Committee records in the State Archives of Florida, this work highlights the importance of sexuality in American and education history and argues that Florida's attempt to govern sexuality in schools implies that educators are distinctly positioned to transform dominant ideology in American society.

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela
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Author : Nelson Mandela
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0759521042

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Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela Pdf

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.

Traveling the Freedom Road

Linda Barrett Osborne
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Author : Linda Barrett Osborne
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0810983389

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This book features illustrations, original documents, photographs and first-person narratives to give an account of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Includes a time line (p. 118-119).