Black Routes Through The Library

Author : New York Public Library
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781620459140

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The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference by New York Public Library Pdf

Covering a wide range of knowledge, The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference is a magnificent resource for home, family, and business, and an essential addition to your personal reference library. "Indispensable for those interested in the African American experience. We have no better source for quick and reliable information." --Cornel West, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University "As much about African American culture as one could possibly gain from one volume is now available in this highly readable, easily accessible, genuinely informative desk reference." --Johnetta B. Cole, PhD, President Emerita, Spelman College; Presidential Distinguished Professor, Emory University In over 5,000 fascinating information capsules, this landmark reference captures the most vital people, places, organizations, movements, and creative works of a people, and provides a practical resource for everyday living. In its nineteen chapters, you’ll find: * Timelines of African American History * Political and Civil Rights Leaders * African Contributions to the Making of the Americas * Holidays and Celebrations * Museums and Historical Sites * Religion and Spirituality * Health Tips and Recipes * Business Contacts and Professional Associations * Demographics and Population * Major Writers, Artists, and Musicians * Musical Forms * Sports * and more

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green Pdf

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Author : State Library of New South Wales,Ronald Briggs,Melissa Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0731066081

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Black Routes Through the Library by State Library of New South Wales,Ronald Briggs,Melissa Jackson Pdf

Author : Chris Barbuschak and Suzanne S. LaPierre
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467152891

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Desegregation in Northern Virginia Libraries by Chris Barbuschak and Suzanne S. LaPierre Pdf

A Hidden History of Unequal Access During the Jim Crow era, many public libraries were segregated. The public library plays a fundamental role in communities by providing free educational resources, boosting literacy and knowledge, and serving as a place of refuge. Despite this, many were inaccessible to Black residents and continued to resist integration even after the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education. Discover the truth about the barriers imposed on the Black community and learn about the citizens-turned-activists who used protests and lawsuits to achieve more equitable library services. Their legacy resonates today as libraries continue to evolve and embrace more inclusive practices. Join Fairfax County librarians Chris Barbuschak and Suzanne LaPierre as they investigate the overlooked and little-known history of segregated library services in Northern Virginia.

Author : Kate Clifford Larson
Publisher : One World
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307514769

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Bound for the Promised Land by Kate Clifford Larson Pdf

The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Praise for Bound for the Promised Land “[Bound for the Promised Land] appropriately reads like fiction, for Tubman’s exploits required such intelligence, physical stamina and pure fearlessness that only a very few would have even contemplated the feats that she actually undertook. . . . Larson captures Tubman’s determination and seeming imperviousness to pain and suffering, coupled with an extraordinary selflessness and caring for others.”—The Seattle Times “Essential for those interested in Tubman and her causes . . . Larson does an especially thorough job of . . . uncovering relevant documents, some of them long hidden by history and neglect.”—The Plain Dealer “Larson has captured Harriet Tubman’s clandestine nature . . . reading Ms. Larson made me wonder if Tubman is not, in fact, the greatest spy this country has ever produced.”—The New York Sun

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112002333497

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Link-up by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ella B. Ensor Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Cattle trade
ISBN : WISC:89064454739

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Parsons' Memorial and Historical Library Magazine by Ella B. Ensor Wilson Pdf

Author : Philip Goldstein,James L. Machor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190295691

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New Directions in American Reception Study by Philip Goldstein,James L. Machor Pdf

Contemporary reception study has developed a diversity of approaches and methods, including the institutional, textual, historical, authorial, and reader-response, which, to a greater or lesser extent, acknowledge the various ways in which readers have found texts-- literature, television shows, movies, and newspapers--meaningful. This collection emphasizes that new diversity, examining movies, newspapers, fans, television shows, and traditional American as well as modern Hispanic, Black, and Women's literature. The essays on literature include James Machor on Melville's short fiction, Kenneth Roemer on Edward Bellamy's utopian work Looking Backward, Amy Blair on the popularity of Sinclair Lewis's Main Street, Marcial Gonzalez on Danny Santiago and his Hispanic novel Famous All Over Town, and Leonard Diepeveen on modernist fiction and criticism. The theoretical essays on reader-oriented criticism include Patsy Schweickart on interpretation and the ethics of careand Jack Bratich on active audiences. Media versions of response criticism include Andrea Press and Camille Johnson's ethnographic analysis of fans of the Oprah Winfrey Show, Janet Staiger on Robert Aldrich's film version of Mickey Spillane's Kiss Me Deadly, and Rhiannon Bury on the fans of the HBO television show Six Feet Under. History-of-the-book versions include Barbara Hochman on the popularity of the 1890s editions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ellen Garvey on nineteenth-century scrapbooks of newspaper, and David Nord on early twentieth-century newspapers' relations to audience charges of bias and unfairness. Poststructuralist studies include Philip Goldstein on Richard Wright's Native Son, Steve Mailloux on Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Tony Bennett on the cultural analyses of Pierre Bourdieu. The collection concludes with essays by Janice Radway on the limits of these methods and on the possibility of new forms of sociological and anthropological reception study and byToby Miller on the "reception deception" in relation to the worldwide distribution and reception of movies and television shows.

Author : Sahar F. Aziz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520382305

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The Racial Muslim by Sahar F. Aziz Pdf

Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Aziz explores the gap between America’s aspiration for and fulfillment of religious freedom. With America’s demographics rapidly changing from a majority white Protestant nation to a multiracial, multireligious society, this book is an in dispensable read for understanding how our past continues to shape our present—to the detriment of our nation’s future.

Author : J.P. Messina
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000652796

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New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech by J.P. Messina Pdf

This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy, psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies. Recent years have seen an explosion of academic interest in these topics. However, most recent work has focused on constitutional protections for free speech and on issues related to academic freedom and campus politics. The chapters in this volume set their sights more broadly on the non-state problems that we collectively face in attempting to realize a healthy environment for free discourse. The volume’s contributors share the assumption that threats to free speech do not come exclusively from state sources or bad actors, but from ordinary strategic situations in which all may be acting in good faith. Contributors take seriously the idea that our current cultural moment provides plenty of reason to be concerned about our intellectual climate and offer new insights for how to make things better. New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech will be of interest to researchers and students working in ethics, political philosophy, social theory, and law. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Francis Rawdon Chesney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Euphrates River Valley
ISBN : UOM:39015022659950

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The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris by Francis Rawdon Chesney Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433082209663

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Bulletin of the Library Company of Philadelphia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francis Broderick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Aleutian Islands (Alaska)
ISBN : IND:30000159409162

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Aleutian World War II National Historic Area, Alaska Calendar Compendium by Francis Broderick Pdf

Author : Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780760371992

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Here We Are . . . on Route 66 by Jim Hinckley Pdf

Here We Are . . . on Route 66 explores America’s fabled “Mother Road,” following Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica and offering an expert look back at vanished attractions—and sites still drawing thousands each year.

Author : Robert E. Durkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016233475

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Federal Information Resources by Robert E. Durkin Pdf