Author: Tom RyderPublisher: J.A. Allen
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The High Stepper
Author: Tom RyderPublisher: J.A. Allen
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Chronicles of a Hot Stepper
Author: Ras JabariPublisher: Around the Way Books
ISBN: 0975534238
Category : Gangs
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Necropastoral
Author: Joyelle McSweeneyPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
An exploration of poetry as an expression of biology
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Author: Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes
Author: Wisconsin Farmers' InstitutesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. H (1901)
Author: James Augustus Henry MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
David L. Jordan
Author: David L. JordanPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626742286
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In David L. Jordan's earliest memories, he is lying in the fields, the black earth beneath him and the sky and sun above, filtered through the leaves of the cotton plants. The youngest of five children in a family of sharecroppers, he was nursed and grew up in those fields, joining his family in their work as soon as he was old enough to carry a sack. David L. Jordan: From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate is the memoir of black Mississippi state senator and city councilman Jordan. His life in twentieth-century Mississippi spanned some of the most difficult times for black Mississippians as they coped with the effects of crippling economic circumstances caused by tenant farming and second-class citizenship enforced through the most violent and repressive means. Jordan shares his experiences from early childhood growing up in Leflore County, the heart of the Mississippi Delta, through his life and work in government. He rose from humble beginnings to become professional educator and eventually one of the Deep South's most recognizable social and political activists. In this revealing autobiography, Jordan describes his witness to the often brutal and humiliating mistreatment of blacks by white racists. He is one of the few persons still alive who attended the sensational trial of the two white men accused of the horrific lynching of Emmett Till in 1955. Jordan recounts the atmosphere and drama surrounding the case with telling effects, shining light on this brand of Mississippi injustice that will help readers understand why many people consider the case the real genesis of the modern civil rights movement. Though change was often slow and grudging, Jordan's Mississippi has evolved and continues to overcome. Indeed, Jordan's story is notably a revelation of his role as a catalyst in shaping many of the gains that blacks have achieved in Mississippi in the past fifty years. With a deep belief in the power of education, hard work, and determination, Jordan has worked tirelessly and courageously so that all his fellow citizens might enjoy the human and political rights he has long championed.
Road, Track, and Stable
Author: Henry Childs MerwinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horses
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Author: