Author: J. Smith FutheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
History of Chester County, Pennsylvania
Author: J. Smith FutheyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chester County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Author: William Watts Hart DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bucks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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.
The Fingerprint
Author: U. S. Department JusticePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781500674151
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The idea of The Fingerprint Sourcebook originated during a meeting in April 2002. Individuals representing the fingerprint, academic, and scientific communities met in Chicago, Illinois, for a day and a half to discuss the state of fingerprint identification with a view toward the challenges raised by Daubert issues. The meeting was a joint project between the International Association for Identification (IAI) and West Virginia University (WVU). One recommendation that came out of that meeting was a suggestion to create a sourcebook for friction ridge examiners, that is, a single source of researched information regarding the subject. This sourcebook would provide educational, training, and research information for the international scientific community.
Men and Issues
Author: George Wharton PepperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
A Generous Confidence
Author: Nancy TomesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521241724
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Kirkbride, Thomas Story.
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats
Author: G. William DomhoffPublisher:
ISBN: 9780060903954
Category : Elite (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Inventing the Feeble Mind
Author: James TrentPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199396205
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.
Author: Edward Hooker