Download or read book Alabama Rollercoasters written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alabama Hot Zones written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alabama Hot Zones Viruses Diseases and Epidemics in Our State s History written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Freedom Rides and Alabama written by Arlam Carr and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise guidebook gives a brief overview of the 1961 Freedom Rides, a crucial moment in American history in which an interracial group traveled across the South to protest segregated transportation. The Freedom Rides and Alabama focuses on the Freedom Riders? experiences in Alabama, from the firebombing of their bus in Anniston to surviving beatings in Birmingham. A large portion of this book describes the riders? arrival in Montgomery, including the violent white mob that greeted them and the ensuing mass meeting at First Baptist Church, where leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Shuttlesworth spoke. This volume puts the Freedom Rides in historical context and is published in conjunction with the Alabama Historical Commission to celebrate the opening of a Montgomery museum at the site of the Greyhound station where the Freedom Riders arrived on their journey south, dedicated to the history of the Freedom Rides on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary.
Download or read book Hot Zones written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Race Riots and Roller Coasters written by Victoria W. Wolcott and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement parks, teenagers congregated at forbidden swimming pools, and church groups picnicked at white-only parks. But too often white mobs attacked those who dared to transgress racial norms. In Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters, Victoria W. Wolcott tells the story of this battle for access to leisure space in cities all over the United States. Contradicting the nostalgic image of urban leisure venues as democratic spaces, Wolcott reveals that racial segregation was crucial to their appeal. Parks, pools, and playgrounds offered city dwellers room to exercise, relax, and escape urban cares. These gathering spots also gave young people the opportunity to mingle, flirt, and dance. As cities grew more diverse, these social forms of fun prompted white insistence on racially exclusive recreation. Wolcott shows how black activists and ordinary people fought such infringements on their right to access public leisure. In the face of violence and intimidation, they swam at white-only beaches, boycotted discriminatory roller rinks, and picketed Jim Crow amusement parks. When African Americans demanded inclusive public recreational facilities, white consumers abandoned those places. Many parks closed or privatized within a decade of desegregation. Wolcott's book tracks the decline of the urban amusement park and the simultaneous rise of the suburban theme park, reframing these shifts within the civil rights context. Filled with detailed accounts and powerful insights, Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters brings to light overlooked aspects of conflicts over public accommodations. This eloquent history demonstrates the significance of leisure in American race relations.
Download or read book Roller Coasters written by Todd H. Throgmorton and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its fourth edition, this exhaustive guide to roller coasters in the United States and Canada also provides a history of coaster evolution (from the 16th century) and a look into the future of coaster technology and design. The book lists by state or province more than 700 coasters at more than 160 amusement and theme parks. Each entry includes contact information along with summaries of each coaster's origins, features and history. There are six appendices: famous coaster designers, the longest wood and steel coasters in North America, a coaster census by state or province, a chronology of wooden roller coasters still in operation, interesting amusement park and coaster facts, and a guide to the alpine coasters at winter resorts in the U.S. and Canada.
Download or read book New Hampshire Rollercoasters written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Roller Coaster Lover s Companion written by Steven J. Urbanowicz and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated and engagingly written, this book tells the whole exciting story of the history and development of roller coasters, from the first 15-foot-high, four-mile-per-hour Switchback Railway in Coney Island's 1884 amusement park to today's wild mega-monsters. Photos throughout.
Download or read book The Incredible Scream Machine written by Robert Cartmell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A. Thompson’s switchback railway, erected at Coney Island. Robert Cartmell examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein to demonstrate his theory of physics, to John Allen’s use of psychology in designing one.
Download or read book South Carolina Rollercoasters written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Children s Books in Print written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Georgia Roller Coasters written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida Rollercoasters written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arkansas Rollercoasters written by Carole Marsh and published by Carole Marsh Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
