Download or read book Dirt Don t Burn written by Larry Roeder and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American education The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected every aspect of life for Black Americans. Dirt Don't Burn is the riveting narrative of an extraordinary community that overcame the cultural and legal hurdles of systematic racism. Dirt Don’t Burn describes how Loudoun County, Virginia, which once denied educational opportunity to Black Americans, gradually increased the equality of education for all children in the area. The book includes powerful stories of the largely unknown individuals and organizations that brought change to enduring habits of exclusion and prejudice toward African Americans. Dirt Don't Burn sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American history. It provides new historical details and insights into African American experiences based on original research through thousands of previously lost records, archival NAACP files, and records of educational philanthropies. This book will appeal to readers interested in American history, African American history, and regional history, as well as educational policy and social justice.
Download or read book Dirt Don t Burn written by Larry Roeder and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dirt Don't Burn, the result of novel research by the Edwin Washington Project, is the story of how the Black community in Loudoun County, VA fought for public education from the end of the Civil War until the end of segregation in 1968. Over the course of nearly a century, various actors--parents, teachers, white allies, and others--pressed to ensure their children a better future, seeking to improve school facilities, increase access to education, and ensure that children's basic needs were met so that they could fully engage in learning. Enriching the narrative are personal stories, interviews, and analysis of records that were almost burned after having been lost for decades. The book also draws on archival NAACP files and records of educational philanthropies. In telling the story of one community, Dirt Don't Burn sheds new light on the larger history of segregation and equity--or lack thereof--in American education"--
Download or read book Shield of the Vanir written by William R. Humble and published by Fawkes Press. This book was released on with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the drums of war sound through Vanaheim, sixteen-year-old Arna severs her relationship with Maeve, resulting in heartache--and the loss of royal protection. Soon after, Arna's brother Ragni is conscripted, and she loses her best friend, emotional support, and yet another layer of protection. Left alone to care for her younger siblings, Arna flounders, and flees with the children to Yggdrasil to evade Queen Mab’s wrath. Provisions are scarce and new dangers lurk around every turn. Arna must face her darkest fears and delve into her own burgeoning powers if the children are to have any chance of survival.
Download or read book Annie Somewhere written by Al Stevens and published by Mockingbird Songs & Stories. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a low orbit Annie scans Earth for an acceptable location where her people can colonize. Their own planet is burning out, and they have taken to outer space in a desperate search for a new home. Annie is the chosen explorer for an advance mission to Earth, the only planet within reach that can sustain them. During her scans, her craft malfunctions and plummets toward the surface, crashing at an abandoned farm. In a nearby small town seventeen-year-old Mark lingers at his bedroom window hoping for a glimpse of the girl next door. When a fiery object streaks across the nighttime sky, Mark gives up his voyeuristic vigil and hustles to the crash site. He finds Annie and is taken with her beauty and alluring ways. He befriends the fetching alien, and together they begin a struggle to assimilate her people into a new and unfamiliar world. Acceptance does not come easy. They encounter frightened citizens, hostile military forces, the media, and the President of the United States, all of whom treat the visitors and their advanced technology as a threatening alien invasion. Annie Somewhere is a poignant story of social and technical differences, inept government interference, and the struggles of a lone visitor to save her civilization from extinction. The story delves into the unlikely pairing of a star-struck teenage boy and a beautiful and mesmerizing alien woman as they set out to overcome human prejudice and find acceptance for a culture of gentle and caring alien beings. Keywords: young adult, science fiction, space opera, space invaders
Download or read book East Bay Grease written by Eric Miles Williamson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Williamson's debut novel, young T-Bird Murphy seeks to gain a foothold in the turbulent and menacing world of '60s and '70s Oakland. When his ex-con father returns to town, what follows is a raw, powerful, poetic passage into adulthood.
Download or read book Nothing Left to Burn written by Heather Ezell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates, in non-linear chronology, events of the twenty-four hours following sixteen-year-old Audrey's mandatory evacuation from the path of a wildfire, as she recalls her tempestuous relationship with troubled volunteer firefighter Brook.
Download or read book Vietnam Above the Treetops written by John F. Flanagan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-02-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1966, the war is escalating, and a young Air Force Academy graduate's assignment is to patrol unfriendly territory with six-man hunter-killer teams. As a Forward Air Controller, flying single engine spotter planes, Flanagan is the link between fighter-bomber pilots and ground forces. This autobiographical account recreates the period when Flanagan, assigned to Project Delta, was plunged into major operations in key combat areas. Spectacular airstrikes, team rescues, lost men, thwarted attempts to save comrades--all are recounted here with raw honesty. A factual combat history from one man's perspective, this is also a thoughtful look at the warrior values of bravery, honesty, and integrity. Flanagan examines the influences that help build these values--educational institutions, the military training system (including the service academies), and religion--and reflects on the high cost of abandoning them. In Vietnam Above the Treetops, Flanagan traces his life from adolescence through the training period, combat missions of all kinds, and re-entry into the everyday world. His war tales take us to key regions: from the Demilitarized Zone, south through the Central highlands, and into War Zone C near Cambodia. Flanagan tells the absolute truth of his experience in Vietnam-- call signs, bomb loads, and target coordinates are all historically accurate. He offers observations on the Vietnamese and Korean forces he worked with, comparing Eastern and Western cultures, and he vents his frustrations with the U.S. command structure. Determined to reconstruct the past, Flanagan re-read old letters from Vietnam, examined maps, deciphered pocket diaries, interviewed former comrades, and let his own long-buried memories surface. Flanagan did not find this book easy to write, but he wanted to pay tribute to his fellow warriors, especially those still missing in action; he wanted to exorcise his war nightmares and further understand his experience. Even more important, he needed to communicate the values he and his comrades lived by, in distant jungles where they faced some of the toughest circumstances known to human beings.
Download or read book Stray Cat Strut 4 written by RavensDagger and published by Podium Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an alien invasion threatens everyone she loves, cybernetic samurai Cat LeBlanc must upgrade her warrior skills, in this thrilling cyberpunk tale. The megacity of New Montreal has become ground zero for the Antithesis. Having burrowed deep beneath every continent on Earth, the aliens have emerged in massive waves, destroying all sentient creatures in their path. All that's standing in their way is the elite vanguard of cyber-samurai determined to stop humanity's extinction at all costs. Catherine "Cat" LeBlanc has only been a samurai for a week, tackling trials by fire as they erupt with guts, grit, and a lot of explosives. As a warrior-still-in-training, her unorthodox and spontaneous fighting style has saved many lives. Now, with New Montreal recruiting soldiers for war, Cat will be on the frontlines with fellow samurai like pyrotechnic nun Gomorrah; buggy, trigger-happy Grasshopper; and goth public relations specialist Emoscythe Mordeath Noir. Despite her prowess in battle, Cat requires stronger armor and more powerful weapons to defeat the Antithesis's endless hordes. She also needs to ensure her girlfriend, Lucy, and their "kittens"—the brood of orphans they've adopted—are safe. But protecting New Montreal and its citizens requires methods of warfare designed to quickly wipe out as many Antithesis as possible. Is the price of victory worth the potential mass destruction it will leave in its wake? The fourth volume of the hit LitRPG sci-fi series—with more than seven million views on Royal Road—now available on Audible and wherever ebooks are sold!
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Download or read book Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain Part II vol 6 written by Michelle Allen-Emerson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.
Download or read book Kids written by C. M. Johan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no accounting for kids these days. This book tracks a few of them through various parts of their lives—parts both good and bad.
Download or read book Borrowing Coals written by Opal Turner Brown and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When my father Ellis was born, most families were larger then than they are now. Times were hard and medicines available were not much help when people became ill. One of my dads brothers and a sister died in infancy. He was one of seven other brothers and one other sister who lived to become adults, to marry, and have children. Dad loved his joke about seven brothers being in the family and all having a sister each. The story was told in such a way to sound as if there had been fourteen children rather than eight. The two oldest brothers were already married at the time their mother died. Ellis was three and a half years old. His sister Alma was fifteen. For a while she kept house and cared for the brothers left at home. About two years later she married. Soon after that, their father married again. Two of the five children he and his second wife had died in early childhood.
Download or read book Friends and Enemies written by Stephen A. Bly and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROBERT FORTUNE IS THE LAST ONE TO COME HOME. Robert is not like his father, the legendary Brazos Fortune. Not a businessman like his brother Todd. Not a notorious retired gunslinger like his brother Sam. Nor the social darlings of the Black Hills like little sister, Dacee June. Hes a career soldier who no longer has a career. With the discipline of a West Point graduate, and the rock solid faith his long-departed mother, Robert moves his family to Deadwood to join the rest of the clan. And in Deadwood, Robert finds not only his placeas a railroad detectivebut a fistful of enemies, all seeking vengeance against him and his family.
Download or read book A Legend in Time written by Ralph Pendergrass and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The westward movement holds a special place in many American hearts. Within the bindings of this book lie stories of struggles and sacrifices. Adversity and adventure. Love and laughter. Life and death. Our story begins with one such man in old age sharing stories to his grandson of what it cost his family to help tame the American West and build for the future. Within his stories lies firsthand accounts of the days of old. The old west when the west was really wild. Of friends and foes, outlaws and Indians. From poverty to prosperity. Gallant and heroic acts of survival and sacrifice. Last but not least herein lies the story of a man and his horse. He and this magnificent stallion both faster in more ways than one ride off into folklore and legend with a massive fortune of gold and seven outlaws hot on they're trail. As a dark silhouette sat motionless in the saddle of life upon his tall dark horse in the light of a full moon. High on a bald hill he sat, "silent," "patiently waiting," casting a soft shadow on the hard ground below. The only peace this silhouette would find would only be found by his own admission. "At the point of dying."
Download or read book 30 Levels to Financial Freedom for Regular People written by Tom Rees and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Burn written by Nevada Barr and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Park Service Ranger Anna Pigeon takes the city of New Orleans by storm in her latest adventure from a "New York Times"-bestselling author. Now available in a tall Premium Edition. Martin's Press.
