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Author: Carole Marsh Publisher: Gallopade International ISBN: 9780635003652 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 16
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L. Douglas Wilder has an impressive story. He trailblazed his way into government in Virginia, being the first African-American in many positions. Virginians are proud of being the first state to elect an African-American governor! They are also proud of his many accomplishments while in office. L. Douglas Wilder--Virginia's trailblazing governor! Virginia Reader features educational activities that help kids learn about the famous Americans mentioned in the Virginia SOL. Some of the interesting information is Where was George Washington Born? Who traveled through the Midwest planting apple trees? Which conductor on the Underground Railroad helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom? Who had to copy the U.S. Constitution for punishment? The readers are 5.5' X 8.5' and are consumables. Classroom packs of 30 readers are also available.
Author: Carole Marsh Publisher: Gallopade International ISBN: 9780635003652 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 16
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L. Douglas Wilder has an impressive story. He trailblazed his way into government in Virginia, being the first African-American in many positions. Virginians are proud of being the first state to elect an African-American governor! They are also proud of his many accomplishments while in office. L. Douglas Wilder--Virginia's trailblazing governor! Virginia Reader features educational activities that help kids learn about the famous Americans mentioned in the Virginia SOL. Some of the interesting information is Where was George Washington Born? Who traveled through the Midwest planting apple trees? Which conductor on the Underground Railroad helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom? Who had to copy the U.S. Constitution for punishment? The readers are 5.5' X 8.5' and are consumables. Classroom packs of 30 readers are also available.
Author: L. Douglas Wilder Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 149301952X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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In 1981, the Commonwealth of Virginia, which had been dominated for decades by “the Organization,” a political machine led by former Governor and U.S. Senator Harry Byrd Sr., took its first baby steps to becoming the vibrant state it is today. That year, Charles Robb rejected the machine and began a new Democratic Party in his campaign for governor. Instead of running against African Americans, Robb reached out to Douglas Wilder, the state’s only African American State Senator and other leaders in the African American Community to rally voters of color to support the Democratic ticket. With the help of a heavy African American turnout, Robb won and the Byrd machine was crushed. In 1985, just four years later, Doug Wilder won the party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor against the cries of “Virginia isn’t ready” and, later that year, defied the naysayers by being elected to that office. Within five years, he would be sworn in as the first elected African American governor in American history. SON OF VIRGINIA by L. Douglas Wilder details the events of the author’s life to paint a portrait of the changing face of America. It will be a story of constant struggle and conflict, not only Wilder’s struggle, but also that of courageous people who stood up to decades of discrimination, corruption and greed. The book will stand as a road map for continued American progress in our elections and laws and a stark warning of what may happen if we relax our commitment to this program.
Author: Dwayne Yancey Publisher: Taylor Publishing Company (TX) ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 400
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Doug Wilder's story is one even a Hollywood scriptwriter would be hard-pressed to imagine: A black candidate, given up for dead by many in his own party, wins election in the South, partly on the strength of votes from Appalachian mountaineers and low-country rednecks. But it happened. Doug wilder's stunning upset election as Lieutenant Governor of Virginia in 1985 marks a milestone in the South: Not only was Wilder the first black to win a statewide election in Virginia, he became the first black to win a statewide executive office in the South since Reconstruction. Wilder became the nation's highest-ranking black elected official -- and a serious contender for governor, an office that no black anywhere has ever won. Now one of the journalists who covered the 1985 campaign tells the behind-the-scenes story of how Wilder pulled off his remarkable upset. "When Hell Froze Over" offers a rare glimpse of how politics really works. -- From publisher's description.
Author: Carole Marsh Publisher: Gallopade International ISBN: 9780635003676 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 16
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Robert E. Lee--the pride of Virginia! His military foresight, decisiveness, and ability to inspire greatness in his troops was phenomenal. Not only was he a brilliant confederate general, he was also a perfect gentleman and loyal Virginian. Virginia Reader features educational activities that help kids learn about the famous Americans mentioned in the Virginia SOL. Some of the interesting information is Where was George Washington Born? Who traveled through the Midwest planting apple trees? Which conductor on the Underground Railroad helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom? Who had to copy the U.S. Constitution for punishment? The readers are 5.5' X 8.5' and are consumables. Classroom packs of 30 readers are also available.
Author: Chip Jones Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1982107545 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this “startling…powerful” (Kirkus Reviews) investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia’s top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart taken out of his body and put into the chest of a white businessman. Now, in The Organ Thieves, Pulitzer Prize–nominated journalist Chip Jones exposes the horrifying inequality surrounding Tucker’s death and how he was used as a human guinea pig without his family’s permission or knowledge. The circumstances surrounding his death reflect the long legacy of mistreating African Americans that began more than a century before with cadaver harvesting and worse. It culminated in efforts to win the heart transplant race in the late 1960s. Featuring years of research and fresh reporting, along with a foreword from social justice activist Ben Jealous, “this powerful book weaves together a medical mystery, a legal drama, and a sweeping history, its characters confronting unprecedented issues of life and death under the shadows of centuries of racial injustice” (Edward L. Ayers, author of The Promise of the New South).
Author: Carole Marsh Publisher: Gallopade International ISBN: 9780635003584 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 16
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James Madison was an important part of American history--not just because he was the fourth president! James Madison was a driving force in the meeting on, and writing of, the Constitution. This man, though small in size, looms large in early American history! Virginia Reader features educational activities that help kids learn about the famous Americans mentioned in the Virginia SOL. Some of the interesting information is Where was George Washington Born? Who traveled through the Midwest planting apple trees? Which conductor on the Underground Railroad helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom? Who had to copy the U.S. Constitution for punishment? The readers are 5.5' X 8.5' and are consumables. Classroom packs of 30 readers are also available.
Author: John T. Kneebone Publisher: ISBN: 9780813944821 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 400
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Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging from the era of urban crisis--desegregation, white flight, political conflict, and economic decline. The product of the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and the Richmond Professional Institute combined into one, state-mandated institution, the two were able to embrace their mission and work together productively. In Fulfilling the Promise, John Kneebone and Eugene Trani tell the intriguing story of VCU and the context in which the university was forged and eventually thrived. Although VCU's history is necessarily unique, Kneebone and Trani show how the issues shaping it are common to many urban institutions, from engaging with two-party politics in Virginia and African American political leadership in Richmond, to fraught neighborhood relations, the complexities of providing public health care at an academic health center, and an increasingly diverse student body. As a result, Fulfilling the Promise offers far more than a stale institutional saga. Rather, this definitive history of one urban state university illuminates the past and future of American public higher education in the post-1960s era.
Author: Steven B. Cowan Publisher: B&H Publishing Group ISBN: 1535965436 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 508
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In Defense of the Bible gathers exceptional articles by accomplished scholars (Paul Copan, William A. Dembski, Mary Jo Sharp, Darrell L. Bock, etc.), addressing and responding to all of the major contemporary challenges to the divine inspiration and authority of Scripture. The book begins by looking at philosophical and methodological challenges to the Bible—questions about whether or not it is logically possible for God to communicate verbally with human beings; what it means to say the Bible is true in response to postmodern concerns about the nature of truth; defending the clarity of Scripture against historical skepticism and relativism. Contributors also explore textual and historical challenges—charges made by Muslims, Mormons, and skeptics that the Bible has been corrupted beyond repair; questions about the authorship of certain biblical books; allegations that the Bible borrows from pagan myths; the historical reliability of the Old and New Testaments. Final chapters take on ethical, scientific, and theological challenges— demonstrating the Bible’s moral integrity regarding the topics of slavery and sexism; harmonizing exegetical and theological conclusions with the findings of science; addressing accusations that the Christian canon is the result of political and theological manipulation; ultimately defending the Bible as not simply historically reliable and consistent, but in fact the Word of God.
Author: Carole Marsh Publisher: Gallopade International ISBN: 9780635003621 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 16
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Virginia Reader features educational activities that help kids learn about the famous Americans mentioned in the Virginia SOL. Some of the interesting information is Where was George Washington Born? Who traveled through the Midwest planting apple trees? Which conductor on the Underground Railroad helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom? Who had to copy the U.S. Constitution for punishment? The readers are 5.5' X 8.5' and are consumables. Classroom packs of 30 readers are also available.
Author: Carole Marsh
Author: Carole Marsh
Author: L. Douglas Wilder
Author: Dwayne Yancey
Author: Carole Marsh
Author: Carole Marsh
Author: Chip Jones
Author: Carole Marsh
Author: John T. Kneebone
Author: Steven B. Cowan
Author: Carole Marsh