From Danville To Destiny I Got Nerve

Author : Dr. Joyce Glaise
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781490772707

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From Danville to Destiny: I Got Nerve by Dr. Joyce Glaise Pdf

This book is a personal account of Dr. Glaise's family history, educational, political, and lifelong accomplishments from 1950 through 2016. Significant events highlighting her community, church, and organizational involvement and contributions to the families and citizens of Danville, other communities, including Africa, are shared. She also provides animated accounts of various friendships and travel adventures. This rich, historical narrative is woven from my experiences growing up as the daughter of two mill workers. Information transmitted from the griots in the family to relate customs, traditions, and habits in the family are the threads from which this book evolves. As in every African American family, there is usually one person who can tell the story of the family. We must have a perpetual legacy and not disconnect from our past but use it as a foundation for building our future. So it is that I decided to write my story because there are too many gems (words of wisdom) that might prove helpful in providing insight, not only to my family, but to others on this journey of life.

Author : Jelani M. Favors
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469648347

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Shelter in a Time of Storm by Jelani M. Favors Pdf

2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award Finalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism. Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.

Author : Joyce Elizabeth Glaise
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : African American women
ISBN : 1490772723

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FROM DANVILLE TO DESTINY by Joyce Elizabeth Glaise Pdf

This book is a personal account of Dr. Glaise's family history, educational, political, and lifelong accomplishments from 1950 through 2016. Significant events highlighting her community, church, and organizational involvement and contributions to the families and citizens of Danville, other communities, including Africa, are shared. She also provides animated accounts of various friendships and travel adventures. This rich, historical narrative is woven from my experiences growing up as the daughter of two mill workers. Information transmitted from the griots in the family to relate customs, traditions, and habits in the family are the threads from which this book evolves. As in every African American family, there is usually one person who can tell the story of the family. We must have a perpetual legacy and not disconnect from our past but use it as a foundation for building our future. So it is that I decided to write my story because there are too many gems (words of wisdom) that might prove helpful in providing insight, not only to my family, but to others on this journey of life.

Author : Janelle Taylor
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420127348

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Destiny's Temptress by Janelle Taylor Pdf

Soul-stirring romance and sweeping passion make the award-winning historical novels of Janelle Taylor unforgettable. And her bestselling tradition continues in Destiny's Temptress, as a beautiful Union spy discovers hidden desire in a rebel soldier's forbidden embrace.

Author : Patty Palmer
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781611804713

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Draw, Paint, Sparkle by Patty Palmer Pdf

25 kid-tested lessons in drawing and painting—perfect for children ages 5 to 10 Encourage and empower kids to make art! The 25 art lessons in this book present step-by-step drawing instructions paired with a range of painting techniques and styles for endless creative exploration. Designed by an elementary art teacher, each creative exploration offers tips on using the best art materials (that won’t break the bank), shares art-making techniques that add variety and ease to the projects, and provides insights on engaging kids in the process. The lessons include: · Beginner projects. Discover easy ways to get started making art. Through flexible instructions, you’ll create big and bold paintings. · Art lessons inspired by the masters. With projects based on celebrated painters like Van Gogh and Monet to contemporary artists like James Rizzi and Jackson Pollock, you’ll explore a range of painting techniques and styles. · Paintings inspired by nature. Draw and paint familiar and imagined landscapes and animals as a fun way to engage with art. More than just a simple how-to draw and paint book, Draw, Paint, Sparkle is an invitation for kids to unleash their creativity through color and paint.

Author : American Anti-Slavery Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : BCUL:VD2266460

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American Slavery as it is by American Anti-Slavery Society Pdf

Author : Rick Riordan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780141325491

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The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan Pdf

When Jason, Piper and Leo crash land at Camp Half-Blood, they have no idea what to expect. Apparently this is the only safe place for children of the Greek Gods - despite the monsters roaming the woods and demigods practising archery with flaming arrows and explosives.

Author : James Fox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743217002

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Five Sisters by James Fox Pdf

The author of the bestseller White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters, who lived at the Pinnacle of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Making their way across two continents, they left in their wakes rich husbands, fame, adoration, and scandal. Lizzie, Irene, Nancy, Phyllis, and Nora were born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the Civil War. Their father remade his fortune by collaborating with the Yankees and building rail-roads; the sisters became southern belles and northern debutantes. James Fox draws on unpublished correspondence between the sisters and their husbands, lovers, children, and the powerful and glamorous of their day to construct a plural topography with the scope of a grand novel and the pace of a historical thriller. At its center is the most famous sister, Nancy, who married Waldorf Astor, one of the richest men in the world. Heroic, hilarious, magnetically charming, and a bully, Lady Astor became Britain's first female MP, championing women's rights and the poor. The beautiful Irene married Charles Dana Gibson and was the model for the Gibson Girl. The author's grandmother, Phyllis, married a famous economist, one of the architects of modern Europe. Fox has written an absorbing and spirited, intimate and sweeping account of extraordinary women at the highest reaches of society, their adventures set against the background of a tumultuous century.

Author : Torre DeRoche
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781401342913

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Love with a Chance of Drowning by Torre DeRoche Pdf

New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong? City girl Torre DeRoche isn't looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He's just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that's as exhilarating as it is terrifying. Somewhere mid-Pacific, she finds herself battling to keep the old boat, the new relationship, and her floundering sanity afloat. . . . This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world's most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1567 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Lumber trade
ISBN : UOM:39015084519555

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American Lumberman by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116500265

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555081258

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Fun by Anonim Pdf

Author : Francisco Goldman
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802195678

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Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman Pdf

The Pulitzer Prize–finalist’s intimate autobiographical novel of a marriage cut tragically short is “a beautiful love story, and an extraordinary story of loss” (Colm Tóibín). In 2005, celebrated novelist Francisco Goldman married Aura Estrada. The two were deeply in love, and Aura was a gifted young writer on the cusp of her own brilliant career. But while on vacation only a month before their second anniversary, Aura died in a tragic accident. In Say Her Name, Goldman pours his feelings of love and unspeakable grief into a fictionalized account of their brief time together. Desperate to keep Aura alive in his memory, Goldman collects everything he can about her, delving deeply into the writings she left behind. From her childhood and university days in Mexico City to her studies at Columbia University, through the couple’s time in New York City and travels to Europe, Goldman composes a vivid and multifaceted portrait. Filled with “propulsive drama” (The Boston Globe), Say Her Name is a tribute to who Aura Estrada was and who she would’ve been, that “will also transport you into the most primal joy in the human repertoire—the joy of loving—and reveal it with aching vibrancy” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Author : Alf J. Mapp Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442248779

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Frock Coats and Epaulets by Alf J. Mapp Jr. Pdf

The passion of Robert E. Lee and the puritan streak in cavalier J. E. B. Stuart are only two of the surprises in Alf J. Mapp Jr.'s highly regarded psychological analysis of Confederate military and political leaders. In this beautifully written book, Mapp also brings to life the defensively genteel Jefferson Davis, the paradoxically bold retreater Joseph E. Johnston, the amazingly transformed "Stonewall" Jackson, and the mysterious and astonishingly durable Judah P. Benjamin. Mapp's first-rate scholarship, fresh insights, and exciting prose have made Frock Coats and Epaulets essential reading for generation of historians and readers interested in the Civil War. Revised and with a new introduction and updated bibliography, Mapp's classic study of the men who led the Confederate rebellion against the United States will appeal to a whole new generation of Americans.

Author : Ellen Glasgow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368177720

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The Miller of Old Church by Ellen Glasgow Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.