Dirt Don T Burn

Author : Larry Roeder,Barry Harrelson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647123642

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Dirt Don't Burn by Larry Roeder,Barry Harrelson Pdf

This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American education The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected every aspect of life for Black Americans. Dirt Don't Burn is the riveting narrative of an extraordinary community that overcame the cultural and legal hurdles of systematic racism. Dirt Don’t Burn describes how Loudoun County, Virginia, which once denied educational opportunity to Black Americans, gradually increased the equality of education for all children in the area. The book includes powerful stories of the largely unknown individuals and organizations that brought change to enduring habits of exclusion and prejudice toward African Americans. Dirt Don't Burn sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American history. It provides new historical details and insights into African American experiences based on original research through thousands of previously lost records, archival NAACP files, and records of educational philanthropies. This book will appeal to readers interested in American history, African American history, and regional history, as well as educational policy and social justice.

Author : Larry Roeder,Barry Harrelson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781647123635

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Dirt Don't Burn by Larry Roeder,Barry Harrelson Pdf

"Dirt Don't Burn, the result of novel research by the Edwin Washington Project, is the story of how the Black community in Loudoun County, VA fought for public education from the end of the Civil War until the end of segregation in 1968. Over the course of nearly a century, various actors--parents, teachers, white allies, and others--pressed to ensure their children a better future, seeking to improve school facilities, increase access to education, and ensure that children's basic needs were met so that they could fully engage in learning. Enriching the narrative are personal stories, interviews, and analysis of records that were almost burned after having been lost for decades. The book also draws on archival NAACP files and records of educational philanthropies. In telling the story of one community, Dirt Don't Burn sheds new light on the larger history of segregation and equity--or lack thereof--in American education"--

Author : Al Stevens
Publisher : Mockingbird Songs & Stories
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Annie Somewhere by Al Stevens Pdf

From a low orbit Annie scans Earth for an acceptable location where her people can colonize. Their own planet is burning out, and they have taken to outer space in a desperate search for a new home. Annie is the chosen explorer for an advance mission to Earth, the only planet within reach that can sustain them. During her scans, her craft malfunctions and plummets toward the surface, crashing at an abandoned farm. In a nearby small town seventeen-year-old Mark lingers at his bedroom window hoping for a glimpse of the girl next door. When a fiery object streaks across the nighttime sky, Mark gives up his voyeuristic vigil and hustles to the crash site. He finds Annie and is taken with her beauty and alluring ways. He befriends the fetching alien, and together they begin a struggle to assimilate her people into a new and unfamiliar world. Acceptance does not come easy. They encounter frightened citizens, hostile military forces, the media, and the President of the United States, all of whom treat the visitors and their advanced technology as a threatening alien invasion. Annie Somewhere is a poignant story of social and technical differences, inept government interference, and the struggles of a lone visitor to save her civilization from extinction. The story delves into the unlikely pairing of a star-struck teenage boy and a beautiful and mesmerizing alien woman as they set out to overcome human prejudice and find acceptance for a culture of gentle and caring alien beings. Keywords: young adult, science fiction, space opera, space invaders

Author : William R. Humble
Publisher : Fawkes Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781957529189

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Shield of the Vanir by William R. Humble Pdf

As the drums of war sound through Vanaheim, sixteen-year-old Arna severs her relationship with Maeve, resulting in heartache--and the loss of royal protection. Soon after, Arna's brother Ragni is conscripted, and she loses her best friend, emotional support, and yet another layer of protection. Left alone to care for her younger siblings, Arna flounders, and flees with the children to Yggdrasil to evade Queen Mab’s wrath. Provisions are scarce and new dangers lurk around every turn. Arna must face her darkest fears and delve into her own burgeoning powers if the children are to have any chance of survival.

Author : RavensDagger
Publisher : Podium Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781039427976

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Stray Cat Strut 4 by RavensDagger Pdf

When an alien invasion threatens everyone she loves, cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc must upgrade her warrior skills, in this thrilling cyberpunk tale. The megacity of New Montreal has become ground zero for the Antithesis. Having burrowed deep beneath every continent on Earth, the aliens have emerged in massive waves, destroying all sentient creatures in their path. All that's standing in their way is the elite vanguard of cyber-samurai determined to stop humanity's extinction at all costs. Catherine "Cat" LeBlanc has only been a samurai for a week, tackling trials by fire as they erupt with guts, grit, and a lot of explosives. As a warrior-still-in-training, her unorthodox and spontaneous fighting style has saved many lives. Now, with New Montreal recruiting soldiers for war, Cat will be on the frontlines with fellow samurai like pyrotechnic nun Gomorrah; buggy, trigger-happy Grasshopper; and goth public relations specialist Emoscythe Mordeath Noir. Despite her prowess in battle, Cat requires stronger armor and more powerful weapons to defeat the Antithesis's endless hordes. She also needs to ensure her girlfriend, Lucy, and their "kittens"—the brood of orphans they've adopted—are safe. But protecting New Montreal and its citizens requires methods of warfare designed to quickly wipe out as many Antithesis as possible. Is the price of victory worth the potential mass destruction it will leave in its wake? The fourth volume of the hit LitRPG sci-fi series—with more than seven million views on Royal Road—now available on Audible and wherever ebooks are sold!

Author : United States. Flight Standards Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : MINN:30000011628256

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General Aviation Inspection Aids by United States. Flight Standards Service Pdf

Author : Michelle Allen-Emerson,Tom Crook,Barbara Leckie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000561395

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Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 6 by Michelle Allen-Emerson,Tom Crook,Barbara Leckie Pdf

Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.

Author : Bill McCurry
Publisher : Infinite Monkeys Publishing LLC
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798987890745

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Death's Baby Sister by Bill McCurry Pdf

A debt to the heavens. A mouthy teenaged trainee. A sorcerer-slaying cult that might be his fault. Bib’s semi-retirement from killing for the gods isn’t going so well. So when he’s asked to help an angry twelve-year-old girl with out-of-control powers, he embarks on a quest hoping for some redemption. But as Bib takes his sassy young charge under his wing, a voyage to the temple almost ends in disaster after a deadly ambush. With reports of other sorcerers going mad and the kid wreaking magical mayhem whenever she opens her mouth, Bib struggles to resist strangling the brat. And after the girl triggers a series of lethal attacks, Bib fears the only way out of this mess will be a return to his murderous ways… Can the embattled anti-hero single-handedly take on the gods and stop the growing bloodshed? Death’s Baby Sister is the second book in the witty-but-dark Death-Cursed Wizard fantasy series. If you like reluctant champions, twisted conflict, and plenty of sword-slashing action, then you’ll love Bill McCurry’s wild adventure.

Author : Bill Rancic
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101982280

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First Light by Bill Rancic Pdf

A moving story of love, family, and survival against all odds from beloved entrepreneur and reality TV star Bill Rancic. Set amid the deep, wild woods of the Yukon, First Light tells the story of Daniel Albrecht and Kerry Egan, a young couple just beginning their life together: in love, engaged, and, as Kerry soon discovers, expecting their first child. While they are flying home from a work trip in Alaska to plan their wedding in Chicago, both engines of their plane catch fire and send the plane careening into a mountainside in the middle of a terrible snowstorm. Kerry is seriously injured in the accident, and Daniel—the one person among the passengers with some survival experience—makes the courageous decision to search for help, hoping against hope that he can return to save his fellow travelers, especially the woman he loves. Thus begins a harrowing and suspenseful race against time and the elements, as it becomes clear that not everyone will make it out alive. As the couple's story draws to a close, the surprising truth about the boy’s life, and that of his parents’ marriage, will at last be divulged. A romantic and heart-wrenching debut from Bill Rancic, First Light is about surviving the most insurmountable obstacles—and finding renewal and love just when it seems that all is lost.

Author : Edward J. Walsh,Rex Warland
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0271042192

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Don't Burn it Here by Edward J. Walsh,Rex Warland Pdf

When first proposed in this country during the 1970s, waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators appeared to be ideal solutions to the growing mounds of trash in our "throw-away" society. Promising to convert useless garbage into electricity while saving precious landfill space, trash incinerators seemed perfectly timed to respond to a national need. Within a decade, however, a grassroots anti-incineration movement emerged as a vibrant offshoot of the environmental movement. In Don't Burn It Here, sociologists Edward Walsh, Rex Warland, and D. Clayton Smith examine this grassroots movement through detailed analyses of the struggles surrounding proposals to build eight municipal incinerators in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. The eight case histories that form the heart of the book are comparable to hundreds of others across the U.S. The authors' research is based on interviews, focus group discussions, extensive newspaper files, and questionnaire responses from participants on both sides of the conflicts. A final chapter examines the similarities and differences between the three successful projects and the five defeated ones. An overview of the history of the modern incinerator in the U.S. and the emergence of a major national opposition movement provides the necessary context, and throughout the book, the authors make useful comparisons to other national movements seeking legal justice for deprived collectivities such as women and ethnic groups. This project was supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for Research in Dispute Resolution. Striving to maintain a balanced treatment of both sides of the incinerator battles, the authors provide fresh theoretical and methodological perspectives on a new type of collective action. They also help to close the gap between theory and empirical data in the social sciences.

Author : Stephen A. Bly
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781433676253

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Friends and Enemies by Stephen A. Bly Pdf

ROBERT FORTUNE IS THE LAST ONE TO COME HOME. Robert is not like his father, the legendary Brazos Fortune. Not a businessman like his brother Todd. Not a notorious retired gunslinger like his brother Sam. Nor the social darlings of the Black Hills like little sister, Dacee June. Hes a career soldier who no longer has a career. With the discipline of a West Point graduate, and the rock solid faith his long-departed mother, Robert moves his family to Deadwood to join the rest of the clan. And in Deadwood, Robert finds not only his placeas a railroad detectivebut a fistful of enemies, all seeking vengeance against him and his family.

Author : John F. Flanagan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313066306

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Vietnam Above the Treetops by John F. Flanagan Pdf

It is 1966, the war is escalating, and a young Air Force Academy graduate's assignment is to patrol unfriendly territory with six-man hunter-killer teams. As a Forward Air Controller, flying single engine spotter planes, Flanagan is the link between fighter-bomber pilots and ground forces. This autobiographical account recreates the period when Flanagan, assigned to Project Delta, was plunged into major operations in key combat areas. Spectacular airstrikes, team rescues, lost men, thwarted attempts to save comrades--all are recounted here with raw honesty. A factual combat history from one man's perspective, this is also a thoughtful look at the warrior values of bravery, honesty, and integrity. Flanagan examines the influences that help build these values--educational institutions, the military training system (including the service academies), and religion--and reflects on the high cost of abandoning them. In Vietnam Above the Treetops, Flanagan traces his life from adolescence through the training period, combat missions of all kinds, and re-entry into the everyday world. His war tales take us to key regions: from the Demilitarized Zone, south through the Central highlands, and into War Zone C near Cambodia. Flanagan tells the absolute truth of his experience in Vietnam-- call signs, bomb loads, and target coordinates are all historically accurate. He offers observations on the Vietnamese and Korean forces he worked with, comparing Eastern and Western cultures, and he vents his frustrations with the U.S. command structure. Determined to reconstruct the past, Flanagan re-read old letters from Vietnam, examined maps, deciphered pocket diaries, interviewed former comrades, and let his own long-buried memories surface. Flanagan did not find this book easy to write, but he wanted to pay tribute to his fellow warriors, especially those still missing in action; he wanted to exorcise his war nightmares and further understand his experience. Even more important, he needed to communicate the values he and his comrades lived by, in distant jungles where they faced some of the toughest circumstances known to human beings.

Author : C. M. Johan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781669841777

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Kids by C. M. Johan Pdf

There’s no accounting for kids these days. This book tracks a few of them through various parts of their lives—parts both good and bad.

Author : Tom Rees
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781598585094

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30 Levels to Financial Freedom for Regular People by Tom Rees Pdf

Author : Rich Unkel
Publisher : Saguaro Books, LLC
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781545755631

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His Silent Killer by Rich Unkel Pdf

His Silent Killer