Author: General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Journal of the ... Annual Session of the General Convention of the New Church in the United States
Author: General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Journal of the ... Annual Session of the General Convention of the New Church in the United States
Author: General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Journal of the ... Annual Session ...
Author: General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Journal of the Annual Sessions
Author: New Jerusalem Church. General ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Journal of the General Convention of the New Jerusalem
Author: New Jerusalem Church. General ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Journal of the General Convention of the New Jerusalem
Author: General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
This State of Wonders
Author: John Kent FolmarPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587290669
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
When the John Hugh Williams family immigrated to Homer, Iowa, in the 1850s, they had six children, ranging in age from five to twenty. Suddenly land poor, in debt, and caught in the Panic of '57, they sent their eldest son, James, to Georgia to work and add to the family income. The seventy-five letters collected here represent the family's correspondence to their absent son and brother. From 1858 to 1861, James' sisters, brothers, mother, and father wrote to him frequently, each with distinct views on their daily life and struggles. While Mr. Williams wrote most often about money, farming, and moral advice (he was minister in the Church of New Jerusalem, as well as a merchant and farmer), Mrs. Williams commented on her daily chores, the family's health, the ever-important weather, and her leisure activities, including the contemporary journals and books she read, such as David Copperfield and Jane Eyre. James' sisters and brothers wrote about many concerns, from schoolwork and housework to games and family celebrations in nearby Webster City. As the letters continue, the affection for the absent James becomes more pronounced. And, as the years go by, the letters touch on more current national trends, including the Pikes Peak Gold Rush and the growing North/South crisis, on which James and his family strongly disagree. James was never to return to Iowa but married and remained in the South, becoming a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate army. Complete with voices both young and old, male and female, This State of Wonders offers a wealth of information about the daily life of an ordinary family on the Iowa prairie. It is a book to be treasured by all Iowans interested in the early life of their state and by all historians looking for a complete portrait of family life on the midwestern frontier.
New-Church Messenger
Author: Sixteenth Street Architecture
Author: Sue A. KohlerPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Divine Agitators
Author: Mark NewmanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820340200
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi--the southern state with the largest black population proportionately and with the stiffest level of white resistance. At its height the Ministry, which was headquartered in Greenville, had the largest field staff of any civil rights organization in the South. Active through the mid-1970s, the Ministry outlasted SNCC, CORE, and the SCLC in Mississippi, helping to fill the vacuums when these organizations fell apart or refocused their energies. In this first book-length study of the Delta Ministry, Mark Newman tells how the organization conducted literacy, citizenship, and vocational training. He documents the Ministry's role in fostering the growth of Head Start and community-based health care and in widening the distribution of free surplus federal food and food stamps. Newman discusses, among other Ministry successes, the Delta Foundation, which created jobs by channeling grant money to small businesses that could not secure bank loans. At the same time, he details the Ministry's problems from its chronic underfunding to its uneasy relationship with the Mississippi NAACP, which pursued civil rights objectives through less confrontational methods. Newman examines the Freedomcrafts manufacturing cooperative and other ministry failures, as well as mixed efforts such as Freedom City, a collective agricultural and manufacturing community built by displaced agricultural workers. Divine Agitators looks at many inadequately studied events across a time span that extends beyond the widely accepted end dates of the civil rights movement. It offers new insights, at the most local levels of the movement, into conflict within and between civil rights groups, the increasing subtlety of white resistance, the disengagement of the federal government, and the rise of Black Power.