Download or read book Hey Nigger Boy Come Here written by Senator 29 and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Josh White written by Elijah Wald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in South Carolina, White spent his childhood as a lead boy for traveling blind bluesmen. In the early '30s he moved to New York and became a popular blues star, then introduced folk-blues to a mass white audience in the 1940s. He was famed both for his strong Civil Rights songs, which made him a favorite of the Roosevelts, and for his sexy stage persona. The king of Café Society-also home to Billie Holiday--he was the one bluesman to consistently pack the New York nightspots, and the first black singer-guitarist to act in Hollywood films and star on Broadway. In the 1950s, White's bitter compromise with the blacklisters left him with few friends on either end of the political spectrum. He spent much of the decade in Europe, then came back strong in the 1960s folk revival. By 1963, he was voted one of America's top three male folk stars, but his health was failing and he did not survive the decade. Written in an engaging style, Society Blues portrays the difficult balancing act that all black performers must face in a predominantly white culture. Through the twists and turns of White's life, it traces the evolution of the blues and folk revival, and is a must read for anyone interested in the history of American popular culture, as well as a fascinating life story. Visit the author's website to see the Josh White photo gallery and learn more about Elijah Wald.
Download or read book Dream of Love written by Michael Phillips and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Southern family is torn apart by Civil War—and their convictions—in the final American Dreams novel from the author of Dream of Life. As the Civil War rages on, plantation owners Richmond and Carolyn Davidson continue to follow the path God set out for them—as an important link in the Underground Railroad, helping runaway slaves flee to the Northern states. Meanwhile, their older son, Seth, is working as a war photographer for the North—and their younger, Thomas, is a Confederate soldier. Torn by war on both sides, the Davidsons pray for both of their sons to come home safe—even as they struggle to keep their land in the face of financial troubles. When Seth is reported missing and feared dead, the family despairs. But his new love, Cherity Waters, refuses to accept the news passively. She sets out on a dangerous journey through the war-torn South to find Seth—and bring him home safe.
Download or read book To Die Among Strangers written by Clair Calhoon and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To die Among Strangers is a love story set against the background of the Korean War, which lasted from June 1950 until July 1953. Robert Bruce piloted an F9F Panther Jet, and saw action from the wars beginning until its end. Court martialed for refusing to obey orders from his squadron commander placed his freedom, indeed his very life, in danger.
Download or read book Where Is the Black Man in America written by Jerry Lee Cook and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows some of the struggles that the blackman in america is going through. Ths provides expert advice from a person who has gone through the ups and downs of life of a balck man and making him aware of the struggles of the blackman's life.
Download or read book My Water Path written by Timothy Joseph and published by Pants On Fire Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi, the late 1950s. After the death of his father, eleven-year-old Jory Sheppard runs away from an unwanted life in foster care. Trying to make it on his own, he is caught in a violent storm on the Mississippi River, but when he is rescued from the raging waters by an old African American man named Moses, it becomes the event that will change his life. Taken into Moses’ family as one of their own, Jory is introduced to a world so familiar and yet so very different from the one he once knew. As he learns and grows under the benevolent care of his new black family, he struggles to make sense of the society in which he lives—a society that would spit on a man such as Moses simply because his skin is black, and make every effort to rip Jory from the family he loves. Quickly entrenched in a struggle that is much bigger than himself, Jory must learn the difference between what feels necessary and what is right, what pity is, and what hate is. If he wants to fight the racism, the injustice and uncertainty that surrounds him, he must learn what it really means to stand up for what he believes in. Trade Review: "Synopsis: Mississippi, the late 1950s. After the death of his father, eleven-year-old Jory Sheppard runs away from an unwanted life in foster care. Trying to make it on his own, he is caught in a violent storm on the Mississippi River, but when he is rescued from the raging waters by an old black man named Moses, it becomes the event that will change his life. Taken into Moses' family as one of their own, Jory is introduced to a world so familiar and yet so very different from the one he once knew. As he learns and grows under the benevolent care of his new family, he struggles to make sense of the society in which he lives - a racist society that would spit on a man such as Moses simply because his skin is black, and make every effort to rip Jory from the family he loves. Quickly entrenched in a struggle that is much bigger than himself, Jory must learn the difference between what feels necessary and what is right, what pity is, and what hate is. If he wants to fight the injustice and uncertainty that surrounds him, he must learn what it really means to stand up for what he believes in. Critique: With "My Water Path", author Timothy Joseph has produced an exceptionally well crafted novel that embeds truly memorable characters into a richly embellished story. The result is a novel that is very highly recommended and would prove to be a popular addition to any community library's General Fiction collection." -- Midwest Book Review
Download or read book The Last of the Ofos written by Geary Hobson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Darko is a Mohican for the twentieth century, the last surviving member of the tiny Mosopelea Tribe of the Mississippi Delta, called Ofos by outsiders. Never numbering more than a few hundred people in recorded history, his kinsmen have died away until Thomas comes to think of himself as "a nation of one." Now an old man in the waning years of the century, Thomas tells the story of his rough-and-tumble life--one which saw many of the changes that Indian people have faced in modern America—and he emerges as one of the most endearing characters in contemporary Native American literature. In this subtle but inventive novel, presented as Thomas's memoirs, Geary Hobson offers us a glimpse into a life filled with simple joys and sorrows. In relating his Louisiana childhood, Thomas recalls not just school-learning but being taught Indian ways by the small Ofo community. He tells of his life as a roustabout in the oil fields, of his courtship of the rambunctious Sally Fachette, and of his career as a bootlegger, which landed him in prison. We share Thomas's wartime stint with the Marines—where "for the first time in my life I was treated like a equal"—and his life as a farm laborer and a Hollywood extra portraying warbonneted Cheyennes. Then in his later years, when he truly has become the last of his kind, we find Thomas recruited by an anthropologist from the Smithsonian Institution to preserve his people's culture. In Washington, he is exposed to the vagaries of Indian policy and the emerging Native American movement. Throughout Thomas's story, readers are introduced to a wide-ranging cast of characters, from the outlaws Bonnie and Clyde to a fellow Marine who is wary of Indians, to an uppity anthropologist who doesn't consider Thomas "expert" enough to handle an Ofo flute. Always poor in material wealth but rich in heritage, Thomas Darko is a Native American Everyman whose identity is shaped by family and homeland. His "autobiography" paints a realistic portrait of an Indian confronting the obstacles in his life and the dilemmas of his age as his story reveals the painful legacy of being the last of one's kind.
Download or read book Magnolias Don t Cry written by Robert Nordmeyer and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2014-05-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EMO TALMIDGE's birth should never have happened. He was born to white trash and is diagnosed as a special needs child. The story begins in 1965 in the small Cajun town of Frampton, Louisiana, and destiny becomes distorted. As a young teen, Emo finds his solace away from adversity on the banks of the Yorkley Bayou and there he meets TYLER MONROE. It matters not that Tyler is black and that racial tension is rampant. Emo finds the friendship natural and beneficial, as does Tyler, and from that relationship comes the convoluted and tragic story revealed in Magnolias Don't Cry. It's a tale weaving together an assortment of disjointed personalities, political intrigue and the soul of New Orleans' famed French Quarter. Two women of divergent ways, one a prostitute and the other a social worker, struggle towards healing the deeply etched wounds of these two boys who have become fused together by the ravages of hate and revenge. But the women's efforts fail, as Louisiana politics interferes and in the end malevolence persists and its consequence shatters the lives of all.
Download or read book An Officer s Love Story written by David T. Hardison and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Officers Love Story was inspired by a dream I had! It is a gift to me from God and Great Masters! a gift for pulling from the Ethereal Realm The Latest Testament! It is the book of all books, of all time! It contains Masters Master Keys of Pitch Black Philosopher Stones, and Universal Scrolls! the frequency vibration rate of the universe is Aum! When Aum enters man it is Om! Aum permeates all; through our foods, air, manna, dew, elements, sunbeams, breaths, medulla oblongata and the crown of our head! Everything is in Aum! Oms in everything! Om is Lifetrons and Lightrons units of R.N.A. messages making mans D.N.A. do what it does; attract reproduce and submit to the will of God: this book is bodacious truth! And Im giving it to the world, all at once! It is a direct result of the good karmic seeds, I have sown! And I share these gifts of grace with you once again! Volume two will be published by early 2012! It will usher in the Golden Age, and stand for all times! This story is about everything I have ever seen done felt thought and dreamt! It is the culmination of every book I have ever read! And all the cosmic experiences the Masters have led me to! It is the absolute total sum culmination of all of my past lives, that Allah has allotted my little soul light! Its all that I have witnessed, learned, and thought that I have learned! All the love and experiences with women! Every sex act: all of the people I have encountered along the way! Even the shadows are in this deep well! Every movie or commercial! Every documentary and historic event! Every celebrity or politician speech! Every game, game show! Everything! Even Trumps Apprentice! My eternal souls experiences and expressions for a billion years! all that I have experienced, done, seen and thought of, are in An Officers love Story! I Am The Biggest Blackest Man Ever! Bar None! And Im Conducting The Biggest Blackest Soul Train, Ascending, Into Heaven! Welcome aboard! And behold me bring this dream to life!! This is my sixth book to be published by the one and only Xlibris Corporation @Xlibris.com! They are the very best! Check out my website WWW.TheLatestTestament.org And WWW.AnOfficersLoveStory.org. This creation was the easiest to write! It is my longest book, and was the easiest to bring forth! It originated from a dream I had last year in April or May of 2010! Easy because all I have to do is turn on my computer, sit, place my hands in the typing position, and wallah, the words begin flowing! I use the music playing on my radio now, my recordings, and all of the music I have ever heard! All of the art Ive seen! All of the places I have been! I use the television, sounds from outside, the bumblebee buzzing by, the birds, ants and the dogs barking from across the way! I use every book, phrase and word Ive ever read! From Baldwin to Hess! Alex Haley, Eldridge Cleaver Malcolm, Kalil Gabrion, George Jackson; the Holy Bible, Koran, Upanishads, Bahagavad Gita, Vedas, Yoga Philosophy, Kabala, the Rosicrucians and John Shaft! Damn right! Everything! Lottee, Dottie and the whole damn party! And from every extra sensory perception! Every visit, from Great Divine Masters; Jesus, Babaji etc.! Babaji is Purely Omnipervasive! Yogananda, Thirumoolar, the Magnificent Siddhas! And The 5 Phases of the Kriya Yoga Tradition! Every song and every sound Ive ever heard! Every hour days months and years, I spent in Kriya concentration, breathing Pranayamas, looking and waiting for meditation that came to me, as bliss on the waves of Om! And every body strengthening, and employed mental forces exercise I have ever undergone! Every poor board I have broken! All of the people I have taught martial arts to! All of the years of dynamic instructions I have joyfully received! Every event, that happened to, and around me in the military, and while sailing the seas! Every order that I have
Download or read book Copasetic written by Avram Mednick and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copasetic is the story of two families. The Stahlinkoviches are klezmorim (Jewish musicians) from Eastern Europe. The Carters are African American sharecroppers from the Mississippi Delta, home of the blues. Both families migrate to Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century. Their lives intertwine like the notes to the score of the American experience.
Download or read book Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball written by Scott Simon and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk." --Chicago Tribune "Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson's arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this extended essay." --The Washington Post Book World "Scott Simon tells a compelling story of risk and sacrifice, profound ugliness and profound grace, defiance and almost unimaginable courage. This is a meticulously researched, insightful, beautifully written book, one that should be read, reread, and remembered." --Laura Hillenbrand, author of the New York Times bestseller Seabiscuit The integration of baseball in 1947 had undeniable significance for the civil rights movement and American history. Thanks to Jackie Robinson, a barrier that had once been believed to be permanent was shattered--paving the way for scores of African Americans who wanted nothing more than to be granted the same rights as any other human being. In this book, renowned broadcaster Scott Simon reveals how Robinson's heroism brought the country face-to-face with the question of racial equality. From his days in the army to his ascent to the major leagues, Robinson battled bigotry at every turn. Simon deftly traces the journey of the rookie who became Rookie of the Year, recalling the taunts and threats, the stolen bases and the slides to home plate, the trials and triumphs. Robinson's number, 42, has been retired by every club in major league baseball--in homage to the man who had to hang his first Brooklyn Dodgers uniform on a hook rather than in a locker.
Download or read book Blood Is Thicker written by Silas H. Patterson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Davis, Vietnam War draftee, former soldier and now vampire, is back home on the South Side, and he quickly finds that his home, Chicago has changed greatly from what it was when he was drafted and that there are new dangers to his wife and infant son. There are new enemies that challenge his resolve and new found abilities, from racist police, uncaring businessmen, and murderous drug dealing gang members, to an evil, power mad vampire named Richard Coeur de Leon who is determined to have him in his Society. All of these enemies are not only are new sources of blood but help him to fight harder to protect his wife Marian, her new born son Adam and kill all of those who make life harder for the truly good in society. And as his now adult son experiences his fathers 25 year story, he quickly finds out that sadly, despite his fathers best efforts and supernatural power he cannot save everyone.
Download or read book Blackdoomed written by S. A. Abakwue and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 14-year-old black boy visits his grandma in Arkansas and is lynched by a hateful group of Klansmen.The killing resurrects the racial question to a global level, pitching the boy's father, a decorated black colonel, against a U.S. president.
Download or read book Snow on the Desert written by Ben Kraieski and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Turner family, headed by Jessup Paul Turner, is a power force in the country. The family is obsessed with the preservation of its heritage and dynasty, but is cursed with marriages that produce a single male heir each generation. Jessup Paul Turner's wife produces an heir. Unfortunately, the heir is a girl. The girl, Debra, while in college, falls in love with a Black student. They marry against family wishes and she becomes pregnant, unacceptable for the Turner dynasty preservation. Turner determines that the child must be killed to preserve the Turner lineage. Turner sends men, led by his personal bodyguard, to kill the baby. The bodyguard, in love with Debra, kills the hit men instead. The young child is precocious and as he matures, believes himself to be the son of God. He attracts a large following, called the Jessupites. Turner, now with a male heir, as a result of a relationship with a prostitute, is determined, now more than ever, to have the Black boy killed. He puts into motion a plan to kill the Black Prophet.
Download or read book The Hemingway Collection written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 6291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon & Schuster presents a beautifully packaged bind-up of the Hemingway collection, available for the first time in ebook. Featuring the novels, short stories, and articles that brought Hemingway to fame, all together in one place with a fantastic new jacket to brighten up your ebookshelf. Inside you will discover The Sun Also Rises with a fresh new introduction from Philipp Meyer (author of American Rust and The Son), For Whom the Bell Tolls introduced by renowned war journalist Jeremy Bowen, and A Moveable Feast introduced by acclaimed Irish author, Colm Toíbín.
Download or read book The 1984 Miracle Story of a Lifetime written by M.T. Hart and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1984 Miracle is a story about one young man’s journey to find satisfaction and fulfillment in his life. For Miracle Pittman, violence and murder come to him as naturally and unconsciously as breathing in spite of being raised in a decent, loving, and respectful household. Miracle gravitates to a life of crime as the evil inside of him grows. A series of life-long turn of events will unleash a fury that cannot be contained. Miracle is on a personal quest for power and control. He believes taking whatever he wants is the answer to filling the void inside him. Miracle’s contagious personality, honesty, loyalty, and charisma stand out as his good qualities, yet deceit, jealousy, and betrayal lead Miracle to see that only true love can bring him to victory. As Miracle seeks out contentment, different challenges and obstacles spin him off course, causing him to lose his humanity. He begins to understand that the greatest and most vicious battles you fight are inside yourself, but affect everyone else.
Download or read book In God We Trust written by Beaulena C. Dunn and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A war is brewing between good and evil, in the heavens and upon the earth-a war that could destroy the very fabric of the universe. As the underworld amasses its power and warriors of heaven prepare their weapons, the clock ticks towards doom. The fate of all rests with Alogar, a gentle little entity incarnated as an earth-born child, to prevent the collapse of both realms. Set in the anxious days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, In God We Trust questions the nature of free will, destiny and the immorality that comes with the wielding of immense power. All that has been, and will be, was pre-destined-until now. Will Alogar be able to return the world to its pre-ordained path? Or will the forces of evil prevent the entity from fulfilling its own destiny?
