The Sumner Story

Author : Wilma F. Bonner
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781600377822

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The Sumner Story by Wilma F. Bonner Pdf

For the first three quarters of the twentieth century, in the heart of our nation, there thrived a safe haven which nurtured great aspirations of thousands of African American youth and their families. “The Sumner Story” highlights the history of a segregated high school which became recognized for the stellar academic performance of its students. Highly qualified faculty who believed in the students’ ability to achieve prepared them for a world of competition, hard knocks, compromises and closed doors. The story also denotes and illuminates outstanding career successes of alumni. In a socially and economically segregated nation, black students who had a “Sumner-like” experience were very fortunate because their schools served as clear windows and powerful springboards to promising possibilities. In this regard, nine other segregated high schools are reviewed. Insights can be gained from this story on how to resolve the plight of low-performing schools in socially and economically disadvantaged communities.

Author : Sandra E Freelain,Dwight D Henderson,Johnnieque B Love,Eugene M Williams
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781600377808

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The Sumner Story by Sandra E Freelain,Dwight D Henderson,Johnnieque B Love,Eugene M Williams Pdf

THE SUMNER STORY is to authenticate the school’s illustrious history and track record in providing quality educational experiences. Since the perspectives of generations of alumni are interwoven in the telling of the story there is a rich, vital character not commonly illustrated in such studies. By specifying major factors contributing to the school's stellar reputation in the area of college preparatory curriculum, concrete instructional tenets are provided for today's classroom teachers and administrators.

Author : JANET SUMNER. JOHNSON
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781630792848

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Help Wanted, Must Love Books by JANET SUMNER. JOHNSON Pdf

Shailey loves bedtime, especially reading with her dad. But her dad starts a new job, and it gets in the way of their bedtime routine. So Shailey takes action! She fires her dad, posts a Help Wanted sign, and starts interviews immediately. She is thrilled when her favorite characters from fairytales line up to apply. But Sleeping Beauty can't stay awake, the Gingerbread Man steals her book, and Snow White brings along her whole team. Shailey is running out of options. Is bedtime ruined forever?

Author : Amy M. Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Sumner (Wash.)
ISBN : LCCN:89134789

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The Sumner Story by Amy M. Ryan Pdf

Author : Barbara Sumner
Publisher : Massey University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780995137899

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Tree of Strangers by Barbara Sumner Pdf

'"I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.' I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I'd never met. But how do you convey your life in a few sentences when almost every memory is missing?" Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At twenty-three she decided she had to find her mother. Remarkable, moving, beautifully written, Tree of Strangers is a ripping account of a search for identity in a country governed by adoption laws that deny the rights of the adopted person.

Author : Jamie Sumner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534457027

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Tune It Out by Jamie Sumner Pdf

From the author of the acclaimed Roll with It comes a moving novel about a girl with a sensory processing disorder who has to find her own voice after her whole world turns upside down. Lou Montgomery has the voice of an angel, or so her mother tells her and anyone else who will listen. But Lou can only hear the fear in her own voice. She’s never liked crowds or loud noises or even high fives; in fact, she’s terrified of them, which makes her pretty sure there’s something wrong with her. When Lou crashes their pickup on a dark and snowy road, child services separate the mother-daughter duo. Now she has to start all over again at a fancy private school far away from anything she’s ever known. With help from an outgoing new friend, her aunt and uncle, and the school counselor, she begins to see things differently. A sensory processing disorder isn’t something to be ashamed of, and music might just be the thing that saves Lou—and maybe her mom, too.

Author : T. Lloyd Benson
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89081188468

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The Caning of Senator Sumner by T. Lloyd Benson Pdf

In May of 1856, when Southern Congressman Preston S. Brooks caned Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, he shocked the nation and shattered the fragile truce that had existed between North and South. Part of the American Stories series, Benson's book introduces students to this key turning point in the coming of the War and as one of the most pivotal moments in American history. Because its story incorporates so many of the era's key issues like slavery and abolition, personal liberty laws and state rights, "Bleeding Kansas" and territorial expansion, ideals of gender and manhood, competing visions of labor and the economic order, and the revolutionary shift between the Whig-based "second party system" and its Republican-dominated third party successor, it provides an excellent window into the mind of a nation on the brink of conflict. These broad implications and the incident's inherent drama make this a natural topic for the American Stories series. The passionate language and sharp controversy of the collection's editorials and speech excerpts should appeal to a wide range of undergraduates. The narrative is complemented by a number of graphics, including images of the incident and maps showing the politics and intellectual geography of the era and how they were affected by the incident.

Author : Tasha Spillett-Sumner
Publisher : Owlkids
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771474084

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I Sang You Down from the Stars by Tasha Spillett-Sumner Pdf

A love letter from an Indigenous mother to her new baby Drawing from Indigenous creation stories and traditional teachings and illustrated in dazzling watercolors, I Sang You Down from the Starsis a tribute to the bond between mother and child. The narrator gathers gifts for a medicine bundle in anticipation of her baby's birth; a fluffy white eagle plume, bunches of cedar and sage, a quilted star blanket, and a small stone from the river. When the baby arrives, the mother shares the bundle with her child and reveals the importance of each item inside. But when her family comes to meet the new arrival, she realizes the baby arrived with gifts of its own and that the baby is also a sacred bundle: a baby bundle. Writing in simple, lyrical text, author Tasha Spillett-Sumner draws from her cultural heritage in order to celebrate Indigenous traditions and the universal nature of a mother's love.

Author : Thom Nickels
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781625859518

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Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls by Thom Nickels Pdf

Author Thom Nickels presents the city's most iconic homes and the stories behind them. Philadelphia's grand mansions and architectural treasures reflect its iconic status in American history, for each Greek Revival home and Corinthian column tells a compelling story of the people behind it. Historic Strawberry Mansion in North Philadelphia was home to Judge William Lewis, a Patriot who defended colonists accused of treason and was Aaron Burr's defense lawyer. Socialite, millionaire and world-renowned art collector Henry McIlhenny made his home at Rittenhouse Square and left his art collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Famed architect Addison Mizner's Spanish Colonial Revival house La Ronda brought the stark contrast of South Florida to Philadelphia.

Author : Michael Rice
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986664368

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The Sumner 7 by Michael Rice Pdf

The early historical accounts of African American education are not often taught in school. What we learn of that history is obtained mostly through diligent research and documentation by others. This native of Parkersburg, West Virginia took personal interest in a school that friends and family attended to document its history and significance in the book you possess today. You're holding the documented history of one of the first and most successful black schools in the United States of America that was established, funded, and operated by African American citizens. Reminisce the experiences, embrace the pride, and celebrate the significant contributions of the graduates of Sumner High School. May you never forget...

Author : Amy M Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1630234001

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The Sumner Story by Amy M Ryan Pdf

Amy M. Johns was born in Farmington, Iowa, in 1878, and when she was thirteen moved west to the Puyallup Valley with her family. She attended grade school in Auburn, Washington, then known as Slaughter. After her family moved to Sumner in 1891, she began attending Whitworth College because the public school had only three years of high school. At eighteen she passed the teachers' examination and received a certificate to teach third grade. She taught in Sumner and Fern Hill until she married Harry Roger Ryan in 1902. They lived in Spokane twenty years, then returned to Sumner where she lived until her death in 1967. She began writing at seventy years of age and continued until a few weeks before her death at age 88. Her vivid memory of the past, her extensive research, and the personal interviews with other old-time friends and relatives, made The Sumner Story possible.

Author : Jamie Sumner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781534442566

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Roll with It by Jamie Sumner Pdf

Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.

Author : David Donald
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402241574

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Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald Pdf

The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns!In this brilliant biography—a Pulitzer Prize—winning national bestseller—David Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often exercised more influence than presidents, Senator Charles Sumner was one of the most powerful forces in the American government and remains one of the most controversial figures in American history. His uncompromising moral standards made him a lightning rod in an era fraught with conflict. Sumner's fight to end slavery made him a hero in the North and stirred outrage in the South. In what has been called the first blow of the Civil War, he was physically attacked by a colleague on the Senate floor. Unwavering and arrogant, Sumner refused to abandon the moral high ground, even if doing so meant the onslaught of the nation's most destructive war. He used his office and influence to transform the United States during the most contentious and violent period in the nation's history. Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War presents a remarkably different view of our bloodiest war through an insightful reevaluation of the man who stood at its center. "A truly perceptive study." American Heritage "Few books can be recommended wholeheartedly to the specialist and the general reader alike. This one can." New York Times Book Review "[Full of] Donald's unparalleled knowledge and provocative interpretations." James M. McPherson, New York Times Book Review

Author : Bernard Sumner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466889880

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Chapter and Verse by Bernard Sumner Pdf

Bernard Sumner pioneered the post-punk movement when he broke onto the scene as a founding member of Joy Division, and later as the front man of New Order. Heavily influencing U2 and The Cure while paving the way for post-punk revivalists like Interpol, Sumner's has left an indelible mark on punk and rock music that endures to this day. Famously reluctant to speak out, for the first time Sumner tell his story, a vivid and illuminating account of his childhood in Manchester, the early days of Joy Division, and the bands subsequent critical and popular successes. Sumner recounts Ian Curtis' tragic death on the eve of the band's first American tour, the formation of breakout band New Order, and his own first-hand account of the ecstasy and the agony of the 1970s Manchester music scene. Witty, fascinating and surprisingly moving, Chapter and Verse is an account of insights and spectacular personal revelations, including an appendix containing a complete transcript of a recording made of Ian Curtis experiencing hypnotic regression under the Sumner's amateur guidance and tensions between himself and former band member Peter Hook.

Author : David Donald
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781402227196

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Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War by David Donald Pdf

The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns!Emeritus Harvard Professor David Herbert Donald traces Sumner's life in this Pulitzer-Prize winning classic about a nation careening toward Civil War.