Double V

Author : Rawn James, Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608196173

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The Double V by Rawn James, Jr. Pdf

Executive Order 9981, issued by President Harry Truman on July 26, 1948, desegregated all branches of the United States military by decree. EO 9981 is often portrayed as a heroic and unexpected move by Truman. But in reality, Truman's history-making order was the culmination of more than 150 years of legal, political, and moral struggle. ?Beginning with the Revolutionary War, African Americans had used military service to do their patriotic duty and to advance the cause of civil rights. The fight for a desegregated military was truly a long war-decades of protest and labor highlighted by bravery on the fields of France, in the skies over Germany, and in the face of deep-seated racism on the military bases at home. Today, the military is one of the most truly diverse institutions in America. ?In The Double V, Rawn James, Jr.the son and grandson of African American veteransexpertly narrates the remarkable history of how the strugge for equality in the military helped give rise to their fight for equality in civilian society. Taking the reader from Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama, The Double V illuminates the African American military tradition as a metaphor for their unique and dynamic role in American history.

Author : Lawrence P. Scott,William M. Womack
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870139536

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Double V by Lawrence P. Scott,William M. Womack Pdf

On April 12, 1945, the United States Army Air Force arrested 101 of its African American officers. They were charged with disobeying a direct order from a superior officer—a charge that could carry the death penalty upon conviction. They were accused of refusing to sign an order that would have placed them in segregated housing and recreational facilities. Their plight was virtually ignored by the press at the time, and books written about the subject did not detail the struggle these aviators underwent to win recognition of their civil rights. The central theme of Double V is the promise held out to African American military personnel that service in World War II would deliver to them a double victory—a "double V"—over tyranny abroad and racial prejudice at home. The book's authors, Lawrence P. Scott and William M. Womack Sr., chronicle for the first time, in detail, one of America's most dramatic failures to deliver on that promise. In the course of their narrative, the authors demonstrate how the Tuskegee airmen suffered as second-class citizens while risking their lives to serve their country. Among the contributions made by this work is a detailed examination of how 101 Tuskegee airmen, by refusing to live in segregated quarters, triggered one of the most significant judicial proceedings in U.S. military history. Double V uses oral accounts and heretofore unused government documents to portray this little-known struggle by one of America's most celebrated flying units. In addition to providing background material about African American aviators before World War II. the authors also demonstrate how the Tuskegee airmen's struggle foretold dilemmas faced by the civil rights movement in the second half of the 20th century. Double V is destined to become an important contribution in the rapidly growing body of civil rights literature.

Author : Carole Eglash-Kosoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792353014

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The Double V - a Novel by Carole Eglash-Kosoff Pdf

Before Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights marches, and Dr. Martin Luther King, there was the Double V campaign. In 1942, during the earliest days of the Second World War, a young Black man was beaten trying to enlist and serve his country. Distraught, he wrote a letter to a large Negro newspaper, The Pittsburgh Courier, asking why he should offer his blood to a country that treated him so badly. He suggested a Double V campaign...a V for Victory in the war and a V for a victory in racial equality at home...a Double V. The reporters and staff of The Courier successfully championed the Double V and a change in Government policy that led to full participation for America's twelve million Black Americans, including more than one million who served in the military. When the war ended, those who served expected a degree of equality. It failed to materialize and their frustrations exploded into the Civil Rights movement and today's activism. And It all began with a letter from one man. It's all true. This novel, The Double V, is a dramatization of those events.

Author : Michael L. Cooper
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UOM:49015002468081

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The Double V Campaign by Michael L. Cooper Pdf

Recounts how African Americans fought two wars during World War II, one against enemy dictators abroad and the other against racial discrimination at home.

Author : Emily Yellin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439103586

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Our Mothers' War by Emily Yellin Pdf

Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad. These heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking accounts of the women we have known as mothers, aunts, and grandmothers reveal facets of their lives that have usually remained unmentioned and unappreciated. Our Mothers' War gives center stage to one of WWII's most essential fighting forces: the women of America, whose extraordinary bravery, strength, and humanity shine through on every page.

Author : Adam Lee Cilli
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820368276

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Canaan, Dim and Far by Adam Lee Cilli Pdf

Canaan, Dim and Far argues for the importance of Pittsburgh as a case study in analyzing African American civil rights and political advocacy in an urban setting. Focusing on the period from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, this book spotlights neglected aspects of middle-class Black activism in the decades preceding the civil rights movement. It features a revolving cast of social workers, medical professionals, journalists, scholars, and lawyers whose social justice efforts included but also extended past racial uplift ideology and respectability politics. Adam Lee Cilli shows how these Black reformers experimented with a variety of strategies as they moved fluidly across ideologies and political alliances to find practical solutions to profound inequities. In the period under study, they developed crucial social safety supports in Black communities that buffered southern migrants against the physical, civil, and legal impositions of northern Jim Crow; they waged comprehensive campaigns against anti-Black stereotypes; and they built inroads into the industrial labor movement that accelerated Black inclusion. Committed to an expansive vision of economic and political citizenship, Pittsburgh’s activists challenged white America to face its contradictions and to live up to its democratic ideals.

Author : Kristin A. McGee
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0819569089

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Some Liked It Hot by Kristin A. McGee Pdf

Investigates the changing representations of jazz women in American culture

Author : Sascha Blase-Van Wagtendonk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780811768894

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Crochet Ragdolls by Sascha Blase-Van Wagtendonk Pdf

Crochet a cute and cuddly soft playmate any child could love with this collection of ragdoll friends, plus clothing for them to wear. These crochet ragdolls are specially designed to be huggable lovies for the little ones or loyal playmates for slightly older children. Many of the animals have patterns for both a large “mom or dad” version and a baby version, including the monkey, frog, cat, bunny, crocodile, dog, hippo, owl, kangaroo, fox, sheep, and penguin. There are also patterns for a mouse, horse, panda, unicorn, princess, and robot, and even a section on how to make little clothes for them to wear. Step-by-step instructions are given for all the crocheted parts, as well as details on how to assemble. In addition, all the crochet techniques used in the book are explained so that even beginners can make these ragdolls.

Author : Charles A. Gallagher,Cameron D. Lippard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 4036 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216135029

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Race and Racism in the United States [4 volumes] by Charles A. Gallagher,Cameron D. Lippard Pdf

How is race defined and perceived in America today, and how do these definitions and perceptions compare to attitudes 100 years ago... or 200 years ago? This four-volume set is the definitive source for every topic related to race in the United States. In the 21st century, it is easy for some students and readers to believe that racism is a thing of the past; in reality, old wounds have yet to heal, and new forms of racism are taking shape. Racism has played a role in American society since the founding of the nation, in spite of the words "all men are created equal" within the Declaration of Independence. This set is the largest and most complete of its kind, covering every facet of race relations in the United States while providing information in a user-friendly format that allows easy cross-referencing of related topics for efficient research and learning. The work serves as an accessible tool for high school researchers, provides important material for undergraduate students enrolled in a variety of humanities and social sciences courses, and is an outstanding ready reference for race scholars. The entries provide readers with comprehensive content supplemented by historical backgrounds, relevant examples from primary documents, and first-hand accounts. Information is presented to interest and appeal to readers but also to support critical inquiry and understanding. A fourth volume of related primary documents supplies additional reading and resources for research.

Author : Connie Ellison
Publisher : Annie's
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781596354821

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Big Book of Crochet Afghans by Connie Ellison Pdf

Adding a touch of comfort and style to a crafter's home decor, the patterns in this collection can be made from a variety of yarns and colors and by crocheters of all skill levels. With 26 designs, this book features full-color photographs and detailed instructions on stitching and incorporating motifs and patterns such as granny squares, Tunisian lace, pineapples, shells, ripples, and more. Beautiful, whimsical, and practical, these afghans make perfect gifts and home accents.

Author : M. F. Bokstein
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1959-12-31
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821895478

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Four Papers on Topology by M. F. Bokstein Pdf

Author : Mark Whitaker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501122439

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Smoketown by Mark Whitaker Pdf

A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s—“Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good story…terrific, eminently readable…fascinating” (The Washington Post). Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble, but doomed, working-class citizens. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger black worlds of Harlem and Chicago. It published the most widely read black newspaper in the country, urging black voters to switch from the Republican to the Democratic Party, and then rallying black support for World War II. It fielded two of the greatest baseball teams of the Negro Leagues and introduced Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Pittsburgh was the childhood home of jazz pioneers Billy Strayhorn, Billy Eckstine, Earl Hines, Mary Lou Williams, and Erroll Garner; Hall of Fame slugger Josh Gibson—and August Wilson himself. Some of the most glittering figures of the era were changed forever by the time they spent in the city, from Joe Louis and Satchel Paige to Duke Ellington and Lena Horne. Mark Whitaker’s Smoketown is a “rewarding trip to a forgotten special place and time” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). It depicts how ambitious Southern migrants were drawn to a steel-making city on a strategic river junction; how they were shaped by its schools and a spirit of commerce with roots in the Gilded Age; and how their world was eventually destroyed by industrial decline and urban renewal. “Smoketown brilliantly offers us a chance to see this other Black Renaissance and spend time with the many luminaries who sparked it…It’s thanks to such a gifted storyteller as Whitaker that this forgotten chapter of American history can finally be told in all its vibrancy and glory” (The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Matthew C. Whitaker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803248212

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Race Work by Matthew C. Whitaker Pdf

Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely segregated city of Phoenix, Arizona, in search of freedom and opportunity?a move that would ultimately transform an entire city and, arguably, the nation. Race Work tells the story of this remarkable pair, two of the most influential black activists of the post?World War II American West, and through their story, supplies a missing chapter in the history of the civil rights movement, American race relations, African Americans, and the American West. ø Matthew C. Whitaker explores the Ragsdales? family history and how their familial traditions of entrepreneurship, professionalism, activism, and ?race work? helped form their activist identity and placed them in a position to help desegregate Phoenix. His work, the first sustained account of white supremacy and black resistance in Phoenix, also uses the lives of the Ragsdales to examine themes of domination, resistance, interracial coalition building, race, gender, and place against the backdrop of the civil rights and post?civil rights eras. An absorbing biography that provides insight into African Americans? quest for freedom, Race Work reveals the lives of the Ragsdales as powerful symbols of black leadership who illuminate the problems and progress in African American history, American Western history, and American history during the post?World War II era.

Author : Annie's
Publisher : Annie's Wholesale
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781640251281

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Afghans to Treasure by Annie's Pdf

Add a touch of style to your home with any of these 27 afghans! Designs include pineapple, granny squares, ripple, cable, one-piece afghans, 5 baby afghans, and more! All home afghans are made using worsted-weight yarn and 4 of the baby use dk-weight yarn and one worsted-weight yarn.

Author : Lloyd E. Brownell,Edwin H. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1959-01-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0471113190

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Process Equipment Design by Lloyd E. Brownell,Edwin H. Young Pdf

A complete overview and considerations in process equipment design Handling and storage of large quantities of materials is crucial to the chemical engineering of a wide variety of products. Process Equipment Design explores in great detail the design and construction of the containers – or vessels – required to perform any given task within this field. The book provides an introduction to the factors that influence the design of vessels and the various types of vessels, which are typically classified according to their geometry. The text then delves into design and other considerations for the construction of each type of vessel, providing in the process a complete overview of process equipment design.