Author: Judith Kilpatrick
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610754224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said of Wiley Austin Branton that he “devoted his entire life to fighting for his own people.” There When We Needed Him is the story of that fight, which began with Branton's being one of the first black students at the University of Arkansas Law School and which took him to the highest levels of business and government. From his private law practice in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Branton became, along with Marshall, counsel for the Little Rock Nine in their 1957 efforts to integrate Central High School. Under his leadership of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, more than six hundred thousand black voters were registered from 1962 to 1965. He later became executive secretary of President Lyndon Johnson's Council on Equal Opportunity and special assistant to attorneys general Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark. He provided leadership to the United Planning Organization, the Alliance for Labor Action, and the NAACP; and he was dean of Howard University Law School. At Branton’s funeral in 1988, former Arkansas senator David Pryor described him as “quiet and unassuming. . . . It is his humility and desire to always put the goals of the civil rights movement before self which probably accounts for the fact that [he] was not more famous than he was.” The influence of this quiet and unassuming man continues to be felt decades later.
There When We Needed Him
Author: Judith Kilpatrick
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610754224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said of Wiley Austin Branton that he “devoted his entire life to fighting for his own people.” There When We Needed Him is the story of that fight, which began with Branton's being one of the first black students at the University of Arkansas Law School and which took him to the highest levels of business and government. From his private law practice in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Branton became, along with Marshall, counsel for the Little Rock Nine in their 1957 efforts to integrate Central High School. Under his leadership of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, more than six hundred thousand black voters were registered from 1962 to 1965. He later became executive secretary of President Lyndon Johnson's Council on Equal Opportunity and special assistant to attorneys general Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark. He provided leadership to the United Planning Organization, the Alliance for Labor Action, and the NAACP; and he was dean of Howard University Law School. At Branton’s funeral in 1988, former Arkansas senator David Pryor described him as “quiet and unassuming. . . . It is his humility and desire to always put the goals of the civil rights movement before self which probably accounts for the fact that [he] was not more famous than he was.” The influence of this quiet and unassuming man continues to be felt decades later.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610754224
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall said of Wiley Austin Branton that he “devoted his entire life to fighting for his own people.” There When We Needed Him is the story of that fight, which began with Branton's being one of the first black students at the University of Arkansas Law School and which took him to the highest levels of business and government. From his private law practice in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Branton became, along with Marshall, counsel for the Little Rock Nine in their 1957 efforts to integrate Central High School. Under his leadership of the Atlanta-based Voter Education Project, more than six hundred thousand black voters were registered from 1962 to 1965. He later became executive secretary of President Lyndon Johnson's Council on Equal Opportunity and special assistant to attorneys general Nicholas Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark. He provided leadership to the United Planning Organization, the Alliance for Labor Action, and the NAACP; and he was dean of Howard University Law School. At Branton’s funeral in 1988, former Arkansas senator David Pryor described him as “quiet and unassuming. . . . It is his humility and desire to always put the goals of the civil rights movement before self which probably accounts for the fact that [he] was not more famous than he was.” The influence of this quiet and unassuming man continues to be felt decades later.
Finding God When You Need Him Most
Author: Chip Ingram
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441212957
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this encouraging book, Chip Ingram reveals how readers can meet God in the midst of their most difficult circumstances. Chip's candid discussion, personal stories, and solid guidance will allow readers to move from "knowing about God" to profoundly experiencing his presence and power in their lives. Whether they're struggling with rocky relationships, unexpected crises, depression, or injustice, Finding God When You Need Him Most will remind readers that the Lord is faithful to hear their heart's cry and will be there for them, time and again.
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441212957
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In this encouraging book, Chip Ingram reveals how readers can meet God in the midst of their most difficult circumstances. Chip's candid discussion, personal stories, and solid guidance will allow readers to move from "knowing about God" to profoundly experiencing his presence and power in their lives. Whether they're struggling with rocky relationships, unexpected crises, depression, or injustice, Finding God When You Need Him Most will remind readers that the Lord is faithful to hear their heart's cry and will be there for them, time and again.
Long Silky Blonde Girl
Author: Jean Marie Rusin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467835994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This is a story about how was growing up and so many times spend in the hospital and almost died, if the neigbor Tina did not comes over, I would not be here right now. The first time that I was at the hospital, and I stay for awhile and then I got release and then I was there a few times and then the Doctor said If i pass my two year birthday,I would live and so I am telling you my story, I started school and the kids were making fun of me and then my neigbor kids did to the same, one day there was incident that my sister almost called the police and I told her not too
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1467835994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This is a story about how was growing up and so many times spend in the hospital and almost died, if the neigbor Tina did not comes over, I would not be here right now. The first time that I was at the hospital, and I stay for awhile and then I got release and then I was there a few times and then the Doctor said If i pass my two year birthday,I would live and so I am telling you my story, I started school and the kids were making fun of me and then my neigbor kids did to the same, one day there was incident that my sister almost called the police and I told her not too
Where is the Lone Ranger when We Need Him?
Author: Robert Perito
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN: 9781929223510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A penetrating study of U.S. policy on peace operations, Perito examines the challenges of establishing sustainable security in postconflict environments in places like the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Publisher: US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN: 9781929223510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A penetrating study of U.S. policy on peace operations, Perito examines the challenges of establishing sustainable security in postconflict environments in places like the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Where's God when We need HIm
Author:
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619969742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619969742
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
I Love You, I Need Him
Author: J.R. Rogue
Publisher: Rogue Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Brooklyn I learned early in life to build walls around my heart. After my mother died. Before my father went to jail. “I’d give anything to make sure the people I love know it…” So when my boss hires a tall, tattooed Irishman to work alongside me, I vow to keep things professional. Especially when I find out he’s a widower. But when my violent past threatens my future, I find myself closer to Declan than I planned to be. “...you want to sleep in my bed?” The walls around my heart are high… but the arms around my body are strong. And I’ve convinced myself he can save me from the coming storm. Declan I escaped New York for Tennessee to have a clean slate. From my vices. From my ghosts... But my new boss has the kind of eyes you can’t look away from. And the kind of laugh that threatens to pull you from the dark. “It’s just chemical, what you’re feeling right now…” I tell myself I’m just being a good friend when I let her stay in my room. But the lies we tell ourselves are the hardest to overcome. “I thought I knew what it was like to be haunted by someone. I was wrong. I don’t know shit…” My attempt at starting over has led me to my greatest fear. Love can never make me weak again. And I can’t fall for a girl who looks like the sun when I’m the goddamn storm.
Publisher: Rogue Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Brooklyn I learned early in life to build walls around my heart. After my mother died. Before my father went to jail. “I’d give anything to make sure the people I love know it…” So when my boss hires a tall, tattooed Irishman to work alongside me, I vow to keep things professional. Especially when I find out he’s a widower. But when my violent past threatens my future, I find myself closer to Declan than I planned to be. “...you want to sleep in my bed?” The walls around my heart are high… but the arms around my body are strong. And I’ve convinced myself he can save me from the coming storm. Declan I escaped New York for Tennessee to have a clean slate. From my vices. From my ghosts... But my new boss has the kind of eyes you can’t look away from. And the kind of laugh that threatens to pull you from the dark. “It’s just chemical, what you’re feeling right now…” I tell myself I’m just being a good friend when I let her stay in my room. But the lies we tell ourselves are the hardest to overcome. “I thought I knew what it was like to be haunted by someone. I was wrong. I don’t know shit…” My attempt at starting over has led me to my greatest fear. Love can never make me weak again. And I can’t fall for a girl who looks like the sun when I’m the goddamn storm.
Women of Karantina
Author: Nāʼil Ṭūkhī
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9774166620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Novel.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9774166620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Novel.
My Journey to Motherhood
Author: Rutendo Nazitwere
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669820890
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The information about the book is not available as of this time.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1669820890
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 69
Book Description
The information about the book is not available as of this time.
Sister
Author: Sylvia Bell White
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299294331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career, but in Milwaukee she and her brothers found only racial discrimination, and she had to persevere through racial rebuffs to find work. When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it?until twenty years later, when one of the officers involved in the incident unexpectedly came forward. Sylvia was the driving force behind the family's four-year quest for justice through a civil rights lawsuit.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN: 0299294331
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career, but in Milwaukee she and her brothers found only racial discrimination, and she had to persevere through racial rebuffs to find work. When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it?until twenty years later, when one of the officers involved in the incident unexpectedly came forward. Sylvia was the driving force behind the family's four-year quest for justice through a civil rights lawsuit.