Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 976
Book Description
Style Manual of the Government Printing Office
Author: Bridge Across Potomac River at Or Near Dahlgren, Va. December 20, 1930. -- Referred to the House Calendar and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Poor's Cumulative Service
Author: River of History
Author: John O. AnfinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
On the Storied Ohio
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Dams and Public Safety
Author: Robert B. JansenPublisher:
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Lynching of Cleo Wright
Author: Dominic J. CapeciJr.Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813156467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.
Before Religion
Author: Brent NongbriPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.
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