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Author: Danny Thomas Publisher: ISBN: 9781625500199 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
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Clinch River Pearls reflects actual events that made headlines across the nation when a tiny hamlet became the crucible of racial tension during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s. When the Supreme Court dictated that schools could no longer be racially segregated, the citizens of Clinton, Tennessee were catapulted into confrontation and violence. The story focuses on blacks and whites alike; on students, teachers, parents, grandparents, and others who took no sides in the great debate but were determined to continue as before, whether that involved compliance with law and local norms or defiance of them. The demonstrations and riots that rocked Clinton severely tested black families on Foley Hill, especially those who became known as the Clinton 12, those first black students required to implement integration. The order tested families (with and without children), leaders in the community attempting to cope, teachers, farmers, and even the majority white students. This story is a multifaceted view of tumultuous times in a quaint, bucolic community, showing how people coped with a new world. Over fifty years later, this is a story that still needs to be told. About the Author: Danny Thomas grew up in East Tennessee. After graduating from Clinton High School and playing football for legendary Bear Bryant at Alabama, he worked as a teacher/administrator for twenty years in Durham, North Carolina. The family-his wife, Cynthia, two daughters, and a son, accompanied him to new jobs in Salisbury and Sanford. Upon retirement in 2006, he began consulting work which allows him time for writing. Now, the family divides their time between home in Winston-Salem and summers on an island retreat in Northern Ontario.
Author: Danny Thomas Publisher: ISBN: 9781625500199 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
Clinch River Pearls reflects actual events that made headlines across the nation when a tiny hamlet became the crucible of racial tension during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s. When the Supreme Court dictated that schools could no longer be racially segregated, the citizens of Clinton, Tennessee were catapulted into confrontation and violence. The story focuses on blacks and whites alike; on students, teachers, parents, grandparents, and others who took no sides in the great debate but were determined to continue as before, whether that involved compliance with law and local norms or defiance of them. The demonstrations and riots that rocked Clinton severely tested black families on Foley Hill, especially those who became known as the Clinton 12, those first black students required to implement integration. The order tested families (with and without children), leaders in the community attempting to cope, teachers, farmers, and even the majority white students. This story is a multifaceted view of tumultuous times in a quaint, bucolic community, showing how people coped with a new world. Over fifty years later, this is a story that still needs to be told. About the Author: Danny Thomas grew up in East Tennessee. After graduating from Clinton High School and playing football for legendary Bear Bryant at Alabama, he worked as a teacher/administrator for twenty years in Durham, North Carolina. The family-his wife, Cynthia, two daughters, and a son, accompanied him to new jobs in Salisbury and Sanford. Upon retirement in 2006, he began consulting work which allows him time for writing. Now, the family divides their time between home in Winston-Salem and summers on an island retreat in Northern Ontario.
Author: Richard Lee Fulgham Publisher: The Overmountain Press ISBN: 9781570720888 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 176
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Chronicling a unique place and time in early American history, this is a story of epic proportions, spanning not centuries but millennia, and even epochs, as the river valley is first shaped by nature into a paradise for all living things—then shaped by humans into a war zone where Native American, British, French, Colonial, Tory, and Patriot forces regularly collided in bloody conflicts.
Author: Jerry M. Hay Publisher: Inland Waterways ISBN: 1616585897 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 124
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Tennessee River Guidebook Explore the beautiful Tennessee River and be safe with this complete guide. The river is being broken down into 57 sections and each chart and description is in great detail. In addition to navigational information, this book shows historical locations and many great places to visit. There are several large lakes on the Tennessee River, giving it the nickname "Great Lakes of the South". They are formed by some impressive Locks & Dams. This book will provide all the information needed for each lock, including the approach, the amount of lift, radio channel, phone number. There is also a special section about locking procedures, so that boaters will have a good experience locking through. Entire 652 miles from Knoxville, TN to Paducah, KY 122 Pages with full color photos. 57 Section charts and descriptions. 176 photographs. Tributaries and lakes are shown. Islands mapped and described. Boat launching ramps shown. GPS Coordinates. Distance markers. Warning inserts. Marina locations and info.
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Radiation Publisher: ISBN: Category : Radioactive waste disposal Languages : en Pages : 1012
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Considers problems of radioactive waste disposal and the precautions, safeguards, and standards to ensure safe handling of these wastes. Includes numerous nongovernmental reports on the sources and types of radioactive wastes.
Author: Susan Hankla Publisher: Groundhog Poetry Press LLC ISBN: 9780997676655 Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 0
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Poetry. In Susan Hankla's debut poetry collection, CLINCH RIVER, Appalachian women can dirt in Mason jars, push husbands down wishing wells, and try to read the signs on Hostess cupcakes. This landscapes is made of thorns, where the golden fleece of ambitions snag on troubles. A woman leaves town just so she can write a love letter to her husband. Another dispatches her man down the well. A real body of water in Appalachia, the Clinch is also a clenching river that baptizes souls as it takes them. Through lyrical narrative poems peopled by school friends, veterans, and ghosts, Hankla presents the poverty of the psychic wound, such as regret, as well as the wounds that poverty asserts, such as longing. The axe of fate chops off the tip of Junior's index finger, and we follow him till he is transparent. Some wounds heal over time and a narrator enters her doppelganger, Glenda, to give us that sturdy girl's one-eyed view. Following her into middle age, we'll hear her tell it like it is, when her friend can't. Wearing a red sweater, the narrator tries to leave the premises, but comes unravelled, as if it's Glenda who makes sure of her return, so that together, they bear witness to the issues of cooking with lard and slaughtering hogs, of crazy men and the deaths of them. "There ought to be some hoopla for Susan Hankla's CLINCH RIVER. Her pure Americana--ghosts, abandoned houses, unfinished dreams, and censored lives--conjures up Nick Cave and Bobbie Gentry (think 'Casket Vignette' or 'Niki Hoeky') at their finest, maybe collaborating on a southwestern Virginia version of Our Town, or else it's like Dorothy Allison writing a southern gothic Spoon River Anthology with Frank Stanford. Hankla can really move mountains and sing. Boy howdy can she sing."--Richard Peabody
Author: Danny Thomas
Author: Danny Thomas
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Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Author: Susan Hankla