Download or read book From the Cotton Fields to the State Capital The Story of the First African American Female Firefighter from the State of Mississippi Large Print Ed written by Laverne Deloris Sing and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centered around the different aspects that happened in my life, situations I had to deal with beginning with my childhood, young adult life, family life, and the many challenges I faced when I became the first black, female firefighter in the state of Mississippi.
Download or read book From the Cotton Fields to the State Capital written by Laverne Deloris Sing and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is centered around the different aspects that happened in my life, situations I had to deal with beginning with my childhood, young adult life, family life, and the many challenges I faced when I became the first black, female firefighter in the state of Mississippi.
Download or read book Coming of Age in Mississippi written by Anne Moody and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the personal story of a young African-American woman growing up in 1940s and 1950s Mississippi.
Download or read book Growing Up in Mississippi written by Bertha M. Davis and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mississippi Harmony written by W. Hudson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Winson Hudson finally registered to vote in Leake County, Mississippi, when she interpreted part of the state constitution by saying, "It meant what it said and it said what it meant." Her first attempt had been in 1937. A lifelong native of the rural, all-black community of Harmony, Winson has lived through some of the most racially oppressive periods in her state s history - and has devoted her life to combatting discrimination. With her sister Dovie, Winson filed the first lawsuit to desegregate the public schools in a rural county. Helping to establish the county NAACP chapter in 1961, Winson served as its president for 38 years. Her work has included voting rights, school desegregation, health care, government loans, telephone service, good roads, housing, and childcare - issues that were intertwined with the black freedom struggle. Winson s narrative, presented in her own words with historical background from noted author and activist Constance Curry, is both triumphant and tragic, inspiring and disturbing. It illustrates the virtually untold story of the role that African American women played in the civil rights movement at the local level in black communities throughout the South.
Download or read book From the Cotton Fields to the Mission Fields written by Reverend Earlene Davis and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a real story of how one black girl of many grew up in a segregated Mississippi town. It could have been in any of the Southern States, but hers was Mississippi, where cotton was the money-making commodity and where cotton was grown in the state for the White man by the Black sharecroppers. I write this story so that this generation may know how they got to where they are now. Some of them only get bits and pieces of their grandmothers and grandfathers' journey from the cotton fields, tobacco fields, beans, cabbages, or wherever field they were planted to the place where they are now. This is their story. Read it, talk about it with your family, and share it with your friends. Yes, there are going to be challenges and obstacles along your life journey; but don't stop, keep hope alive, pray and keep the faith, and never give up on your dreams.
Download or read book Stranger at the Gates written by Tracy Sugarman and published by Easton Studio Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the summer of 1964, over one thousand people, including many college students went to Mississippi as part of a state wide effort to register African-American voters and to establish teaching centers that became known as "Freedom Schools." Participants began their training at a college campus in Ohio. Motivated by a strong sense of social justice, Tracy Sugarman, an artist and commercial illustrator from Westport, Connecticut, joined the volunteers in Ohio and set out to document the people and events of what turned out to be an historic period. Sugarman joined the freedom riders, and while somewhat older and more experienced than most of them, was an active participant throughout. Sugarman traveled to Mississippi and shared all the experiences of the workers as well as their fears and anxiety as they were greeted by anger and violence by many white Mississippians. Sugarman describes and beautifully illustrates the living conditions, day-to-day activities, and the interpersonal relationships that developed between the host families and the visitors. The author introduces us and vividly portrays many of the important people in the movement, including Bob Moses and many others, but he also focuses on the ordinary citizens and hosts. Other works have set forth the significant events that occurred during that summer, including especially the Goodman/Schwerner/Chaney murders that took place in Neshoba County and startled the American public. This first hand account focuses more on the human experiences and its meaning for participants. It is an essential source of information about what Freedom Summer did for those who took part in it and now, with the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, Stranger at the Gates will bring to life this momentous period for modern readers. Most of the wonderful illustrations created for the 1966 edition of Stranger at the Gates have been reproduced here, and as a special bonus, 26 illustrations that were not included in the original book are included in a gallery of Freedom Summer in brilliant drawings that bring to life, in Tracy Sugarman's powerful reportorial style, the people and places of 1964 Mississippi.
Download or read book Leaving Mississippi written by Betty R. Dickson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One month shy of her 13th birthday in 1952, the author watched as a portable electric chair was off-loaded from a huge flatbed truck and into the Simpson County courthouse. A Negro man who had killed a constable in 1951 was to be electrocuted that night. His wife, Martha Lee Durr, eight-months pregnant, was arrested, charged with accessory to murder. She lost the baby. She spent six months in the Simpson County jail before several Negro farmers posted bail for her to be released and reunited with her three children. Martha Lee was never tried in court. Upon release, she focused on getting herself and her children away from Mississippi. Martha Lee Hall, age 93, today lives in Grand Rapids, MI. This is her story of survival and forgiveness.
Download or read book The Road to Memphis written by Mildred D. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
Download or read book Coming of Age in Mississippi the Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South written by Anne Moody and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Stagecoach Mary Fields written by Robert Henry Miller and published by Silver Burdett Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the first African American woman to carry the United States mail
Download or read book High Cotton written by Gerard Helferich and published by Counterpoint Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tracy Kidder meets John McPhee in the hot sun of the Mississippi Delta, in this year in the life of a modern-day cotton farmer. The rich, flat topsoil of the Mississippi Delta has seen both astonishing economic production and some of the most tragic history in our nation's past. It is, in Richard Ford's apt phrase, "the South's South." Contested ground since European explorers first set foot there three centuries ago, it turned out to have the ideal climate for growing cotton, a crop that seemed destined to a marginal role in America's economy until technology and politics combined to make it one of the driving forces behind our bloodiest war. Its legacy echoed in the racial divide of the century that followed" -- publisher website (August 2007).
Download or read book Coming of Age in Mississippi written by Anne Moody and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as important as And Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. A history of our time . . . (and) a reminder that we cannot now relax.--Senator Edward Kennedy.
Download or read book A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland s Eastern Shore written by Carole C. Marks and published by Delaware Heritage Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Summer That Didn t End written by Len Holt and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1992-03-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the few accounts of the 1960s civil rights movement by a participant, Len Holt's examination of the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi gives readers an inside look ... beyond the dramatic deaths and violence and shows the reader the summer's successes, the heroism..." -- from the book's new 1992 preface by Julian Bond.
Download or read book Freedom Summer written by Sally Belfrage and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom Summer is a richly detailed account of a young white woman who participated in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee's summer project in Mississippi in 1964. The text covers one intense summer from the basic training session in June to the Democratic Convention in August.
Download or read book Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers written by Jim Dann and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1964, courageous young civil rights workers risked their lives in the face of violence, intimidation, illegal arrests, and racism to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi, which had historically excluded most blacks from voting. With a firsthand account of the details and thoughtful descriptions of key people on the front lines, including Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles McLaurin, John Harris, Irene McGruder, and many more, author Jim Dann brings that historic period back to life. He places those 15 months in Mississippi--known as Freedom Summer--in the overall history of the struggle of African Americans for freedom, equality, and democratic rights in the South, the country, and throughout the world. Fraught with lessons drawn from those experiences, "Challenging the Mississippi Firebombers" is a valuable contribution to understanding and advancing civil rights struggles in addition to being a fascinating and engrossing story of a pivotal moment in the mid-20th-century United States.
