Black Crusader

Author : Robert Carl Cohen
Publisher : Robert Carl Cohen
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434801876

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Black Crusader by Robert Carl Cohen Pdf

The 2008 Photo Illustrated Edition of Robert Carl Cohen's 1972 biography of Robert Franklin Williams, advocate of armed self-defense in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and prophet of ghetto uprisings and a Socialist Revolution. The story of how an easily contented youngster who dreamed of becoming a poet was transformed into an archenemy of the U.S. power structure. Included in these pages are historically significant events such as Williams' talks with Fidel Castro and Mao Tse-Tung, details of the infighting within the Cuban Communist Party, his meeting with Che Guevara, and impressions of life in China during the first years of the "Great Cultural Revolution." This new edition is illustrated with previously unpublished photos of Williams & his wife, Mabel, in exile in Cuba and Africa. KIRKUS REVIEWS: "The education of one Black man you should not miss, and certainly cannot dismiss."

Author : Ronald Caplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1926908813

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Pearleen Oliver by Ronald Caplan Pdf

In a winning new book, Pearleen Oliver: Canada's Black Crusader for Civil Rights brings to life a compassionate and passionate African Nova Scotian, the story of her growth and activism--a book that shows how one woman's voice changed the course of Nova Scotia's history. Pearleen Oliver pushed open doors that blocked Black girls from nurses' training. She kicked Little Black Sambo out of public schools. She was spokesperson for Viola Desmond's appeal of her 1946 conviction for challenging racist customs. A founder of the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, the Black United Front and the Black Cultural Centre, she was the first female moderator of the African United Baptist Association, and a founder of the AUBA Women's Institute. Editor Ronald Caplan weaves Pearleen's voice from her interviews and speeches. We experience Pearleen's awareness of injustice as she grew up in segregated New Glasgow schools. A married woman, we see her outrage re-kindled by a bewildered teenager at her door who was barred from nurses' training by her skin colour. Pearleen began to speak out before civic and religious and community groups?Boards of Trade, Rotary luncheons, B'nai B'rith and Baptist services and nuclear disarmament conferences. Newspapers carried her voice?a voice of reason and determination and common sense?across the province, and then across Canada. While raising five sons and carrying on the duties of a minister's wife, Pearleen mentored young girls and women in summer camps, church groups, continuing education, and women's groups. She was the organist in her churches, and she wrote histories of Black communities. In this eye-opening book Pearleen Oliver tells stories of activist journalist Carrie Best who published Nova Scotia's first Black newspaper, of successful businesswoman Viola Desmond who was sidetracked by petty racism, of Black soldiers who fought Nazi racism in the Second World War and then came home to racial discrimination in Canada. This book keeps alive a determined fighter for social justice who should not be forgotten. Pearleen Oliver demonstrated what one person, one voice, can do.

Author : Robert C Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0988412225

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Black Crusader by Robert C Cohen Pdf

Black Crusader is the story of how a young man from a small North Carolina town who dreamed of becoming a poet was transformed into an archenemy of the US power structure. At school and in college, in the Army and Marines and in his home town in the 1950s, Robert Franklin Williams witnessed the scourge of segregation, exploitation, beatings and even murder. He decided to apply his combat training, intelligence, organizational skills and fearlessness to take a stand against race hatred, becoming the first black liberation militant to advocate armed self-defense. But in 1961 an explosion of government-supported racist violence - and a trumped-up kidnapping charge - forced him to flee and seek refuge among America's Cold War adversaries, in Cuba, the People's Republic of China and later in newly independent Tanzania. This biography details the first 44 years of Williams' life, as told in his own words, the story of an enigmatic and charismatic leader who was pursued in vain for almost a decade by the FBI and CIA. His talent for leadership extended to book writing, newspaper editing and managing Radio Free Dixie from exile. Though his message was suppressed by the US media, he was a friend of revolutionary leaders, inspired a generation of civil rights activists, and was admired by millions around the world. The book concludes with the bizarre circumstances of Williams' return to the US in 1969, after which all state and federal charges were quietly dropped. Then mainstream publishers mysteriously withdrew the first two versions of this book, now republished in full in this new illustrated edition.

Author : Alistair MacLean,Ian Stuart (pseud. van Alistair MacLean.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:562223059

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The Dark Crusader by Alistair MacLean,Ian Stuart (pseud. van Alistair MacLean.) Pdf

Author : Peter E. Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472857521

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F-8 Crusader by Peter E. Davies Pdf

With specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the 'last of the gunfighters', as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG threat of the Vietnamese People's Air Force. When the Vietnam War began, the F-8 was already firmly established as a fighter and reconnaissance aircraft. It entered combat as an escort for Alpha strike packages, braving the anti-aircraft artillery and surface-to-air missiles alongside the A-4 Skyhawk bombers and meeting MiGs for the first time on 3 April 1965. Although the Crusader was nicknamed 'last of the gunfighters', its pilots employed 'secondary' AIM-9D Sidewinder missiles in all but one of their MiG kills, with guns also used as back-up in three. Its 20 mm guns were unreliable as they often jammed during strenuous manoeuvres, although they were responsible for damaging a number of MiGs. However, in combat the F-8 had the highest 'exchange ratio' (kills divided by losses) at six-to-one of any US combat aircraft involved in the Vietnam War. Through the copious use of first-hand accounts, highly detailed battlescene artwork, combat ribbon diagrams and armament views, Osprey's Vietnam air war specialist Peter E. Davies charts the successful career of the F-8 Crusader over Vietnam.

Author : Ronald J. Stephens
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781839984594

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Robert Franklin Williams Speaks: A Documentary History by Ronald J. Stephens Pdf

Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean war veteran, who claimed his right to American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government, he remained fully invested in the rights, privileges, and responsibilities the Constitution guaranteed all of its citizens. As many of his contemporaries now confess, Williams’s strength and appeal, as explained by his second son, John Williams, was his uncompromising stance and determination to act on the American dream he imagined for social, economic, and political equality for African Americans. The skills he acquired as a journalist and propaganda specialist were key to his political development, evolution, and transnational collaborations with Cuba and China, which he used to challenge domestic policies in the United States, and way beyond the imagination of his supporters in the United States. Williams ultimately used these strengths, strategies, and collaborations to deliver liberating messages of freedom, resistance, and social and economic equality on behalf of the rights of African Americans. Williams significantly contributed to the Black freedom struggle and should not be forgotten. This book includes a collection of writings by and about Williams as an internationalist, pragmatist, and civil and human rights champion.

Author : Michael A. Bellesiles
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814712962

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Lethal Imagination by Michael A. Bellesiles Pdf

Examining the role of violence in America's past, this collection of essays explores its history and development from slave patrols in the colonial South to gun ownership in the 20th century. The contributors focus not only on individual acts such as domestic violence, murder, duelling, frontier vigilantism and rape, but also on group and state-led acts such as lynchings, slave uprisings, the establishment of rifle clubs, legal sanctions of heterosexual aggression, and invasive medical experiments on women's bodies.

Author : William B. Helmreich
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002613399

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The Black Crusaders by William B. Helmreich Pdf

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Author : Ralph E. Luker
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807847208

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The Social Gospel in Black and White by Ralph E. Luker Pdf

In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement.

Author : American Galloway Breeders' Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924056360435

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North American Galloway Herdbook by American Galloway Breeders' Association Pdf

Author : Marie Jakober
Publisher : EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770530706

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The Black Chalice by Marie Jakober Pdf

It's 1134. In a bleak monastery somewhere in Germany, Paul of Ardiun begins the chronicle he has been ordered by his religious superiors to write: the story of the knight Karelian Brandeis, for whom Paul once served as squire, who fell prey to the evil wiles of a seductive sorceress, thereby precipitating civil war and the downfall of a king. But before Paul can set down more than a sentence or two of this cautionary tale, the sorceress herself magically appears to him. He is a liar, she tells him, and always has been. She lays a spell on him: from this moment, he will only be able to write the truth. But what is the truth? All his life he has rearranged his memories to suit his faith. He has judged Karelian, judged the women, judged the world. Now, against his will, an entirely different story begins to emerge.

Author : Sue Edmondson
Publisher : Mayfields
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9780953540396

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Miniature Pinscher by Sue Edmondson Pdf

This books contains the pedigree name, date of birth, sire and dams pedigree name of every Miniature Pinschers registered with the UK Kennel Club from 1984 to 1993, from 1988 coat colours are also included, making this book a valuable research tool for all Miniature Pinscher breeders.

Author : Alistair MacLean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1285460394

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The Dark Crusader by Alistair MacLean Pdf

Author : Timothy B. Tyson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807899014

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Radio Free Dixie by Timothy B. Tyson Pdf

This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers used machine guns, dynamite, and Molotov cocktails to confront Klan terrorists. Advocating "armed self-reliance" by blacks, Williams challenged not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights establishment. Forced to flee during the 1960s to Cuba--where he broadcast "Radio Free Dixie," a program of black politics and music that could be heard as far away as Los Angeles and New York City--and then China, Williams remained a controversial figure for the rest of his life. Historians have customarily portrayed the civil rights movement as a nonviolent call on America's conscience--and the subsequent rise of Black Power as a violent repudiation of the civil rights dream. But Radio Free Dixie reveals that both movements grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and reflected the same quest for African American freedom. As Robert Williams's story demonstrates, independent black political action, black cultural pride, and armed self-reliance operated in the South in tension and in tandem with legal efforts and nonviolent protest.

Author : Lou Mougin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476638607

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Secondary Superheroes of Golden Age Comics by Lou Mougin Pdf

 When Superman debuted in 1938, he ushered in a string of imitators--Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Captain America. But what about the many less well-known heroes who lined up to fight crooks, super villains or Hitler--like the Shield, the Black Terror, Crimebuster, Cat-Man, Dynamic Man, the Blue Beetle, the Black Cat and even Frankenstein? These and other four-color fighters crowded the newsstands from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. Most have since been overlooked, and not necessarily because they were victims of poor publication. This book gives the other superheroes of the Golden Age of comics their due.