Author: Owen CooperPublisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
An Oral History with Mr. Owen Cooper
Author: Owen CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
A Guide to the Owen Cooper Papers
Author: Getting Right With God
Author: Mark NewmanPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817310606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Publisher Fact Sheet This groundbreaking study analyzes the evolution of Southern Baptists' attitudes toward African Americans during a tumultuous period of change in the United States.
Oral History Index
Author: Meckler PublishingPublisher: Westport : Meckler
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Thought Occurred to Me
Author: Don McGregorAs I Remember it
Author: Betty Lee JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : Mount Pleasant (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A collection of interviews from the mid-1970s involving the author and longtime residents of the Low Country. Some were originally published in the East Cooper Pilot.
The Quilters
Author: Patricia J. CooperPublisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896724105
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"The quilts are beautiful, the faces worn but kind . . . the insights affecting." --New York Times Book Review"The women who speak through the book shared a vision, a strength, and a spirit that few of us will ever know or understand." --Christian Science Monitor"You can't always change things. Sometimes you don't have no control over the way things go. Hail ruins the crops, or fire burns you out. And then you're just given so much to work with in a life and you have to do the best you can with what you've got. That's what piecing is. The materials is passed on to you or is all you can afford to buy . . . that's just what's given to you. Your fate. But the way you put them together is your business. You can put them in any order you like." --Mary White, from the IntroductionFirst published in 1977, The Quilters chronicles the lives and quilts of pioneer women of Texas and New Mexico at the turn of the twentieth century. Compelling black and white portraits of the women accompany their moving oral histories, while thirty-six color photographs showcase the quilts.This award-winning book was the basis of the Broadway play Quilters, nominated for seven Tony Awards.Patricia Cooper taught at the University of California at Berkeley until her death in 1987.Norma Bradley Allen is a freelance writer who lives in Cedar Hill, Texas.
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
Author: Paul FinkelmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195167775
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1556
Book Description
It is impossible to understand America without understanding the history of African Americans. In nearly seven hundred entries, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 documents the full range of the African American experience during that period - from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass - and shows how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans.The Encyclopedia covers an extraordinary range of subjects. Major topics such as "Abolitionism," "Black Nationalism," the "Civil War," the "Dred Scott case," "Reconstruction," "Slave Rebellions and Insurrections," the "Underground Railroad," and "Voting Rights" are given the in-depth treatment one would expect. But the encyclopedia also contains hundreds of fascinating entries on less obvious subjects, such as the "African Grove Theatre," "Black Seafarers," "Buffalo Soldiers," the "Catholic Church and African Americans," "Cemeteries and Burials," "Gender," "Midwifery," "New York African Free Schools," "Oratory and Verbal Arts," "Religion and Slavery," the "Secret Six," and much more. In addition, the Encyclopedia offers brief biographies of important African Americans - as well as white Americans who have played a significant role in African American history - from Crispus Attucks, John Brown, and Henry Ward Beecher to Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Sarah Grimke, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Phillis Wheatley, and many others.All of the Encyclopedia's alphabetically arranged entries are accessibly written and free of jargon and technical terms. To facilitate ease of use, many composite entries gather similar topics under one headword. The entry for Slave Narratives, for example, includes three subentries: The Slave Narrative in America from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, Interpreting Slave Narratives, and African and British Slave Narratives. A headnote detailing the various subentries introduces each composite entry. Selective bibliographies and cross-references appear at the end of each article to direct readers to related articles within the Encyclopedia and to primary sources and scholarly works beyond it. A topical outline, chronology of major events, nearly 300 black and white illustrations, and comprehensive index further enhance the work's usefulness.
A Diné History of Navajoland
Author: Klara KelleyPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816540535
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
For the first time, a sweeping history of the Diné that is foregrounded in oral tradition. Authors Klara Kelley and Harris Francis share Diné history from pre-Columbian time to the present, using ethnographic interviews in which Navajo people reveal their oral histories on key events such as Athabaskan migrations, trading and trails, Diné clans, the Long Walk of 1864, and the struggle to keep their culture alive under colonizers who brought the railroad, coal mining, trading posts, and, finally, climate change. The early chapters, based on ceremonial origin stories, tell about Diné forebears. Next come the histories of Diné clans from late pre-Columbian to early post-Columbian times, and the coming together of the Diné as a sovereign people. Later chapters are based on histories of families, individuals, and communities, and tell how the Diné have struggled to keep their bond with the land under settler encroachment, relocation, loss of land-based self-sufficiency through the trading-post system, energy resource extraction, and climate change. Archaeological and documentary information supplements the oral histories, providing a comprehensive investigation of Navajo history and offering new insights into their twentieth-century relationships with Hispanic and Anglo settlers. For Diné readers, the book offers empowering histories and stories of Diné cultural sovereignty. “In short,” the authors say, “it may help you to know how you came to be where—and who—you are.”
An Oral History with Mr. Bennie Gooden
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Adult education
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Discusses the following topics: Mississippi; civil rights; Gooden, Bennie S.; Henry, Aaron, 1922-; Carr, Andrew; Anti-poverty programs; McLaurin, Bennie F.; Brown v. Board of Education; Murray, Charles; Child Development Group of Mississippi; Clarksdale, (Miss.); Coahoma County; Coahoma Opportunities, Inc.; Greenville, Miss.; Tynes, Gycelle; Humes, H.H.; Head Start; White, Hugh; Jackson, (Miss.); Gillam, James C.; Epps, Jesse; Stennis, John C.; Ku Klux Klan (1915); Losing Ground; Lyon, Miss.; Mississippi Action for Progress; North Mississippi Rural Legal Services; Office of Economic Opportunity; Cooper, Owen; Segregaton; Southern Education Recreational Association; Sunflower County; Tunica County; violence.