This Bright Light Of Ours

Author : Maria Gitin
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817318178

Get Book

This Bright Light of Ours by Maria Gitin Pdf

"This Bright Light of Ours combines a memoir with oral history to create a very vivid portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965 in Wilcox County, Alabama, when volunteers and long-standing local black leaders were shaking the cultural norms, registering thousands of new voters. This book documents the first-person experience of Maria Gitin, an idealistic 18-year-old college freshman from San Francisco who felt called to action when she viewed televised images of the brutal treatment of peaceful demonstrators during what became known as Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama"--

Author : Leslie G. Kelen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781496801609

Get Book

This Light of Ours by Leslie G. Kelen Pdf

This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who participated in the movement as activists with SNCC, SCLC, and CORE. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered breaking news events, these photographers lived within the movement—primarily within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) framework—and documented its activities by focusing on the student activists and local people who together made it happen. The core of the book is a selection of 150 black-and-white photographs, representing the work of photographers Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Matt Herron, David Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama. Images are grouped around four movement themes and convey SNCC's organizing strategies, resolve in the face of violence, impact on local and national politics, and influence on the nation's consciousness. The photographs and texts of This Light of Ours remind us that the movement was a battleground, that the battle was successfully fought by thousands of “ordinary” Americans among whom were the nation's courageous youth, and that the movement's moral vision and impact continue to shape our lives.

Author : Maria Gitin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0817772170

Get Book

This Bright Light of Ours by Maria Gitin Pdf

"This Bright Light of Ours combines a memoir with oral history to create a very vivid portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965 in Wilcox County, Alabama, when volunteers and long-standing local black leaders were shaking the cultural norms, registering thousands of new voters. This book documents the first-person experience of Maria Gitin, an idealistic 18-year-old college freshman from San Francisco who felt called to action when she viewed televised images of the brutal treatment of peaceful demonstrators during what became known as Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama"--

Author : Penelope Rowlands
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781616200367

Get Book

Paris Was Ours by Penelope Rowlands Pdf

Thirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world's most seductive city. "Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there." —National Geographic Traveler Paris is “the world capital of memory and desire,” concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In thirty-two personal essays—more than half of which are here published for the first time—the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it’s done in French movies; they came from the United States, Canada, and England; from Iran, Iraq, and Cuba; and—a few—from other parts of France. And they stayed, not as tourists, but for a long time; some are still living there. They were outsiders who became insiders, who here share their observations and revelations. Some are well-known writers: Diane Johnson, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman, Joe Queenan, and Edmund White. Others may be lesser known but are no less passionate on the subject. Together, their reflections add up to an unusually perceptive and multifaceted portrait of a city that is entrancing, at times exasperating, but always fascinating. They remind us that Paris belongs to everyone it has touched, and to each in a different way.

Author : Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Geography
ISBN : CHI:098245288

Get Book

This World of Ours by Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster Pdf

Author : Jennifer Niven
Publisher : Ember
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780385755917

Get Book

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven Pdf

NOW A NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ELLE FANNING AND JUSTICE SMITH! The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge. And don’t miss Take Me with You When You Go, Jennifer Niven’s highly anticipated new book with bestselling author David Levithan! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for—and manages to find—something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school—six stories above the ground— it’s unclear who saves whom. Soon it’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. . . . “A do-not-miss for fans of Eleanor & Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe.” —Justine Magazine “At the heart—a big one—of All the Bright Places lies a charming love story about this unlikely and endearing pair of broken teenagers.” —The New York Times Book Review “A heart-rending, stylish love story.” —The Wall Street Journal “A complex love story that will bring all the feels.” —Seventeen Magazine “Impressively layered, lived-in, and real.” —Buzzfeed

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Farm life
ISBN : 9781442934375

Get Book

One of Ours by Willa Cather Pdf

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338114884

Get Book

One of Ours by Willa Cather Pdf

Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is guaranteed a comfortable livelihood. Nevertheless, Wheeler views himself as a victim of his father's success and his own inexplicable malaise.Thus, devoid of parental and spousal love, Wheeler finds a new purpose to his life in France, a faraway country that only existed for him in maps before the First World War. Will Wheeler ever succeed in his new goal? The novel is inspired from real-life events and also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923.

Author : Julius Bailey
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781460406939

Get Book

Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love by Julius Bailey Pdf

The election of President Donald Trump, through his campaign of race-baiting, sexual harassment, and blatant disregard for human decency, lowered the moral bar of American public discourse. Julius Bailey’s latest book discusses the current state of hypocrisy and mistrust in the American political system, especially as these affect ethnic minorities and low-income groups. In powerful and inspiring prose, Bailey writes with a voice well informed by current events, empirical data, and philosophical observation. Bailey looks at the causes and consequences of this new era and applies his passionate yet astute analysis to issues such as hate speech, gerrymandering, the use of the Confederate flag, and America’s relationship with the gun.

Author : Kenelm Henry Digby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : English poetry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924013453588

Get Book

Hours with the First Falling Leaves by Kenelm Henry Digby Pdf

Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Dell
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307566508

Get Book

His Bright Light by Danielle Steel Pdf

At once a loving legacy and an unsparing depiction of a devastating illness, Danielle Steel’s tribute to her lost son is a gift of life, hope, healing, and understanding to us all. “This is the story of an extraordinary boy with a brilliant mind, a heart of gold, and a tortured soul. It is the story of an illness, a fight to live, and a race against death. I want to share the story, and the pain, the courage, the love, and what I learned in living through it. I want Nick's life to be not only a tender memory for us, but a gift to others. . . . I would like to offer people hope and the realities we lived with. I want to make a difference. My hope is that someone will be able to use what we learned, and save a life with it.”—Danielle Steel From the day he was born, Nick Traina was his mother's joy. By nineteen, he was dead. This is Danielle Steel's powerful, personal story of the son she lost and the lessons she learned during his courageous battle against darkness. Sharing tender, painful memories and Nick's remarkable journals, Steel brings us a haunting duet between a singular young man and the mother who loved him—and a harrowing portrait of a masked killer called manic depression, which afflicts between two and three million Americans.

Author : Charles Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435030264428

Get Book

The Works of Charles Lever: Harry Lorrequer ; Tom Burke of "Ours" by Charles Lever Pdf

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141904467

Get Book

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Pdf

'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose' Arena -------------- THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ ZERO HISTORY AND SPOOK COUNTRY FOR MORE Cayce Pollard has a new job. She's been offered a special project: track down the makers of an addictive online film that's lighting up the internet. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese hackers and Russian Mafia. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . . A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Pattern Recognition skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down. -------------- 'Fast, witty and cleverly politicized' Guardian 'A big novel, full of bold ideas . . . races along like an expert thriller' GQ 'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies' USA Today 'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world' Daily Telegraph 'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on' Financial Times

Author : Charles James Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112049092247

Get Book

Harry Lorrequer. Tom Burke of "Ours" by Charles James Lever Pdf

Author : Charles Lever
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Irish fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433076082720

Get Book

Harry Lorrequer. Tom Burke of "Ours" by Charles Lever Pdf