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Book Cry from the Cotton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald Grubbs
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2000-07-01
  • ISBN : 1557285225
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Cry from the Cotton written by Donald Grubbs and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was founded in eastern Arkansas in 1934 to protest the New Deal's enrichment of Southern cotton barons at the expense of suffering sharecroppers, both black and white. Their courageous struggle, in the face of determined and often violent resistance from their landlords, is the subject of this thorough study from Donald H. Grubbs, which was published to critical acclaim in 1971. Cry from the Cotton was the first full-scale look at the STFU and its leaders. It discloses that, although the union operated under noticeable socialist party sponsorship in its infancy, it drew much more upon the native Southern evangelical and populist traditions, much as the civil rights movement would do twenty-five years later. Grubbs convincingly demonstrates that while the STFU failed to gain immediate social justice for its members, it resulted in the formation of the Farm Security Administration, which even today continues to aid the rural poor, and it played a large part in forcing the formation of the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, whose spotlight on management terrorism helped the CIO toward success. The volume stands as a classic on labor issues and class struggle and still echoes with the haunting plea of the dispossessed for equity.

Book Cry from the Cotton

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  • Author : Donald H. Grubbs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN : 9780783703213
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Cry from the Cotton written by Donald H. Grubbs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Cry from the Cotton Field

Download or read book A Cry from the Cotton Field written by and published by . This book was released on 185? with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dirty Feds a Cry for Help

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  • Author : Juliet Cotton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-12-12
  • ISBN : 9781540505439
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Dirty Feds a Cry for Help written by Juliet Cotton and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking and riveting true story about how U.S. Federal prosecutors and agents, trial judge, defense counsel, U.S. Congressman (D-MI), and his assistant, all knowingly framed and convicted Juliet Cotton, a known innocent black woman, to cover-up the fact that the SouthTrust Bank's (now Wells Fargo Bank) employees opened two investment accounts in her company's name without her knowledge and money laundered over $145 million dollars through the accounts, and caused her to be unlawfully convicted and falsely imprisoned for 13-years, while the bank's three white males went free. This is the true story of a very courageous young lady who has fought for her "actual innocence" and "unjust conviction" during her 13-years of false imprisonment, until she was released from prison on October 14, 2015. She now continues to fight and seeks to correct the miscarriage of justice through an Unconditional Pardon, on the grounds of "Actual Innocence" and Unjust Conviction, on all Counts, from President Barack Obama. You will not be able to put this book down, because it draws you in.

Book Higurashi When They Cry  Cotton Drifting Arc  Vol  1

Download or read book Higurashi When They Cry Cotton Drifting Arc Vol 1 written by Ryukishi07 and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've already met Keiichi Maebara and his mischievous friends in the Abducted by Demons Arc. But Oyashiro-sama's curse is poised to strike anew in Hinamizawa village. When Keiichi spots tomboy Mion working at a maid café, he can hardly believe his eyes! But it's not Mion after all - it's her identical twin sister, Shion. Keiichi's never heard of this "twin sister" before and suspects it's just another one of Mion's pranks. But through Shion, Keiichi is able to see a quieter, more feminine side of his best friend, even if it is all an act. As Keiichi spends more time with Shion, however, Rena grows more accusatory...

Book Cotton Tenants

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  • Author : James Agee
  • Publisher : Melville House
  • Release : 2013-06-04
  • ISBN : 1612192130
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Cotton Tenants written by James Agee and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a 400-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama, at the height of the Great Depression. The book shattered journalistic and literary conventions. Critic Lionel Trilling called it the “most realistic and most important moral effort of our American generation.” The origins of Agee and Evans’s famous collaboration date back to an assignment for Fortune magazine, which sent them to Alabama in the summer of 1936 to report a story that was never published. Some have assumed that Fortune’s editors shelved the story because of the unconventional style that marked Famous Men, and for years the original report was presumed lost. But fifty years after Agee’s death, a trove of his manuscripts turned out to include a typescript labeled “Cotton Tenants.” Once examined, the pages made it clear that Agee had in fact written a masterly, 30,000-word report for Fortune. Published here for the first time, and accompanied by thirty of Walker Evans’s historic photos, Cotton Tenants is an eloquent report of three families struggling through desperate times. Indeed, Agee’s dispatch remains relevant as one of the most honest explorations of poverty in America ever attempted and as a foundational document of long-form reporting. As the novelist Adam Haslett writes in an introduction, it is “a poet’s brief for the prosecution of economic and social injustice.”

Book It s Brave to Cry

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  • Author : Rebecca Robinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-10
  • ISBN : 9781736058107
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book It s Brave to Cry written by Rebecca Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay is a young boy who has trouble expressing his emotions. After a hard day at school, Clay's dad encourages him to feel empowered to share his feelings and tells him that this is a brave thing to do. Unconvinced, Clay sets off on an adventure to ask some of the bravest people he can think of if they ever cry, and if they do, he wants to know why! Clay learns a lot about bravery and the different types of tears - but will Clay ever uncover if it's truly brave to cry and conquer his fears?

Book Higurashi When They Cry  Cotton Drifting Arc  Vol  2

Download or read book Higurashi When They Cry Cotton Drifting Arc Vol 2 written by Ryukishi07 and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twins Shion and Mion have Keiichi seeing double. But as he grows closer to Shion, their flirty friendship has Mion seeing red. When Shion and Keiichi trespass on sacred ground the night of the Cotton Drifting, a string of gruesome murders and disappearances follow. Are the legends of Oyashiro-sama's curse true? Is there a demon in Hinamizawa?

Book Cry Wolf

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  • Author : Wilbur Smith
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-01-01
  • ISBN : 1499860390
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Cry Wolf written by Wilbur Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action-packed adventure set in 1930s Africa from global bestseller Wilbur Smith “They recognised in each other that same restlessness that was always driving them on to new adventure, never staying long enough in one place or at one job to grow roots, unfettered by offspring or possessions, by spouse or responsibilities, taking up each new adventure eagerly and discarding it again with our qualms or regrets. Always moving onwards — never looking backwards.” The wartime race to save a country… When Jake Barton, American engineer, teams up with English gentleman and hustler Gareth Swales to sell five battered old Bentleys in 1930s East Africa, neither of them could have imagined that they’d soon be attempting to smuggle the vehicles into Ethiopia to support the war effort, in return for a huge reward. But to do this, they’ll have to manoeuvre past several extremely hostile European forces, as well as managing their feelings for Vicky Camberwell, the beautiful journalist who has been sent with them to report on the brutal violence of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The three adventurers are about to discover that some battles are more than they can handle…

Book Cotton Precision Breeding

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  • Author : Mehboob-ur- Rahman
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 3030645045
  • Pages : 459 pages

Download or read book Cotton Precision Breeding written by Mehboob-ur- Rahman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cotton, the most important natural fiber crop, has been improved by conventional breeding—largely through planned hybridization of different cotton genotypes, since the discovery of Mendelian genetics. All these efforts resulted in the development of resilient high yielding cotton varieties. However, the progress through conventional breeding procedures is slow because of long lag periods for developing a variety, little control over the new genetic combinations, unwanted traits and lack of foolproof performance testing system. Genomic assays discovered over the last two decades have made it possible to understand the “language” of the genome by associating the genes with specific traits. Together with the more recently established gene-editing tools like CRISPR-Cas9, the cotton genome can be tailored much more precisely than ever before. In this regard, genetic information has been harnessed, through (i) sequencing of the progenitor and cultivated cotton species, (ii) ongoing mega pan-genome sequencing projects, (iii) genetic and physical mapping, and (iv) introgression of genes from alien sources, that resulted in the development of resilient cotton cultivars. These technologies have been deployed or are attempting to overcome the challenges of water shortage, excessive heat in most cotton growing regions, infectious diseases and infestation of insect pests, as well as rising production cost, for sustainable cotton production beyond 2030. In this book, new knowledge generated by the cotton research community and its application for developing resilient cotton are comprehensively summarized. This book contributed by well-known cotton researchers is a timely collection of the challenges and successes of precision cotton breeding in a changing environment.

Book Dreamland Burning

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  • Author : Jennifer Latham
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2017-02-21
  • ISBN : 0316384941
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Dreamland Burning written by Jennifer Latham and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling dual-narrated tale from Jennifer Latham that questions how far we've come with race relations. Some bodies won't stay buried. Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the present and the past. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what's right the night Tulsa burns. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham's lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important questions about the complex state of US race relations--both yesterday and today.

Book Cowboys Don t Cry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Berry
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2011-08-16
  • ISBN : 0826349900
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Cowboys Don t Cry written by Charles Berry and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scout McBride was born into ranching life in the West Texas desert outside El Paso. He learned to ride a horse almost before he could walk, grew up communicating with animals around the harsh land, and spoke Spanish with his first friend, a boy from Mexico. It was a tough environment for one so young and as Scout follows a rugged path to becoming a man, he knows that to emulate the men he admires, he must keep one thing in mind: Cowboys don't cry.

Book If Your Back s Not Bent

Download or read book If Your Back s Not Bent written by Dorothy F. Cotton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of the Citizenship Education Program, Dorothy Cotton, recounts the accomplishments of the program and her experiences in the civil rights movement.

Book Bulletins

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  • Author : New York, N.Y. Lying-in Hospital
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Bulletins written by New York, N.Y. Lying-in Hospital and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Roll of Thunder  Hear My Cry  Puffin Modern Classics

Download or read book Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Puffin Modern Classics written by Mildred D. Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect. * "[A] vivid story.... Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence."—Booklist, starred review