Download or read book No Darkies Sit In This Section of The Bus Yesterday and Today written by Orlando Herrera, Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book speaks of two women, one with no popularity until today and with so much popularity that even in death she is honored throughout the country and even around the world. Claudette Colvin was pushed into the limelight until a rumor and the color of her skin; Rosa Parks was thrown in not only for she favored Whites with lighter skin and better hair but for the NAACP who ran with both cases the timing of Rosa Parks could not have come at a better time. Unfortunately, there is not much on Claudette Colvin, but that does not mean she is not a shero in this story of history.
Download or read book 100 Black Women Who Shaped America written by Glenn L. Starks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory text explores the lives of 100 Black women and their unique and meaningful legacies upon the history, society, and culture of the USA. Today, the names and remarkable achievements of Black women such as Maya Angelou, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey are well known to many Americans. Yet throughout American history, many lesser-known Black women like them have made invaluable contributions to sports, science, the arts, medicine, politics, and civil rights. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who published the first newspaper written for and by African American women, championed the cause of women's suffrage. Matilda Sissieretta Jones, whose father was an enslaved person, toured Europe and performed at the White House in front of four different presidents as one of the great sopranos of her generation. Augusta Savage, overcoming racism and sexism, became one of the most celebrated sculptors in history. This book serves as an important reminder that the story of America cannot be told without the Black women who, with strength and determination, have always pushed America forward even when others held them back.
Download or read book The Adolescent Years of Benjamin Bird written by MD Gage and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the adolescent years of Benjamin Bird, he wrestled with inevitable post–World War II socioeconomic and technological change, the breakup of his extended family, transitioning from the country to the city, from public school to college, and from confusion over his bisexuality. The following is an excerpt from Chapter Three. Benjamin pulled his socks tight in his shoes to avoid getting blisters on his heels, and he began trotting across the Dover pasture out to the county road. There he crawled under the barbed wire fence and headed home on foot. He did not mind walking, even three miles. Walking always seemed to clear his mind. He was relieved to be escaping from Denver's influence, at least for a time. Every step he took away from Denver was a step in the right direction. Step, step, step. Denver is sexy, all right, Ben admitted to himself, but not as desirable as Jacob Jiggs had been, not sexy enough for me to start daydreaming about Denver, or any other male, or I will fall into a trap that might haunt me for the rest of my life. Step, step, step. Don't think of Denver's masculinity, don't think of the arousal I felt riding behind Denver on old Misty, don't think of Denver's broad shoulders or his beautiful backside. Step, step, step. Don't think of Denver's naughty nature, don't think of what Denver might be doing with old Misty. I don't ever want to know. Step, step, step. Stay on the right side of life. Think of girls. Think of becoming attracted to girls. Think of which girl I will try to win for my sweetheart when school starts up again. Step, step, step. Should it be Peggy Blessing? Peggy is so feminine and dainty. I actually felt manly when I was sitting beside her in assembly! Step, step, step. Imagine putting my arms around Peggy Blessing and having babies and building a nice home and becoming a good husband and father. Step...by...step...by...step. Ben's shoes became hot to his feet, so he sat down and took them off, stuffed his socks into his shoes, tied the shoestrings together, and slung them over his shoulder. His feet felt good tramping in the warm sandy ruts. His toes felt liberated. At least his toes were liberated. ***** Watch for the forthcoming sequel, The Rootless Years of Benjamin Bird.
Download or read book Freedom Ride written by Sue Lawson and published by Walker Books Australia. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uncomfortable truth of racism embedded within 1960s Australian society, set against the backdrop of the Freedom Ride. Australia 1965. Racial tensions around the country are flaring, and the town of Walgaree is no exception. Robbie just wants to keep his head down, concentrate on his summer mowing job and avoid the wrath of his intolerant family. After all, there’s nothing he can do about how the Aborigines are treated. He’s only one person. But when a group of university students arrive in Walgaree with the Freedom Ride, Robbie realises it’s time to make a stand. Will he blow up everything he holds dear to change things for the better? Freedom Ride is a thought-provoking reminder of the past, especially powerful when the Uluru Statement from the Heart calls for a future in which all Australians walk together.
Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
Download or read book Rise Up written by Lisa Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Best Play for Young Audiences in the Writers’ Guild Awards 2016 The tide was turning – though local governments disagreed, it would soon be illegal to segregate black Americans from white Americans on public buses, in waiting rooms or in restaurants. And yet – in the early 1960s, many states across the south of America kept discriminating against African-Americans... In modern day Britain, four actor-storytellers tell the stories of the Freedom Riders – principled citizens riding buses across Alabama and Mississippi, drawing attention to this illegal discrimination, and facing up to terrifying violence with peaceful resistance. The story of the Freedom Riders is one of ordinary people becoming a civil rights movement, taking on the establishment and changing the world. In a time of Michael Brown, and Trayvon Martin, and Mark Duggan, what does it mean for people to come together and rise up?
Download or read book Sunny written by Paul and published by Strident Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Sunny Wilson solve the mystery of his unlikely survival?The 'us and them' of Theresa Breslin's Divided City; the jeopardy of Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions. Luck seems to be on young Sunny Wilson's side when he survives a major road accident.But was he meant to walk away?Sunny is convinced someone has it in for him - a sense strengthened when an attempt is seemingly made to abduct him from hospital. Once out, Sunny is faced with his town's ongoing sectarian divisions. They boil over when someone attacks a train carrying pupils from a rival school. Sunny knows the culprit's identity, but the risks of revealing it are high. All Sunny's troubles seem to stem back to the crash. So he follows a hunch to try to solve that mysteryand finds his life in peril all over again.
Download or read book A Preliminary Report on the Survey of Racial Tension Areas written by Charles Spurgeon Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women who Started it written by Jo Ann Gibson Robinson and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how Robinson and the Women's Political Caucus started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1954
Download or read book Gifts and Other Stories written by Charlotte Holmes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning debut collection of short stories, Charlotte Holmes brings to life characters whose confrontations with each other make them - and us - alive. These are powerful, heart-wrenching stories, and the sense of loss they convey is made all the more resonant and haunting by obsessive memory. Charlotte Holmes writes with great intelligence and a sure, deft touch. Her unwavering vision and lyrical prose make these stories at once harrowing and beautiful, and mark the emergence of a significant new voice in American fiction.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Footprints of My Life written by Doyle Harden and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of Harden’s life has been as a writer — a writer of facts in the news departments of radio, television and newspapers. “With all that factual writing, I thought what I was about to attempt would be vastly diffferent,” he said. “However, I learned otherwise. This book is also about facts — and the very life I’ve lived is certainly a fact.” After four years in the U.S. Air Force, his next step was into broadcasting. Trained as an annoucer, he later moved into the news departments and both wrote and voiced the news. During his long career, he also worked in television and as a newspaper writer/photographer. “Having written most of my adult life, I felt I could quickly and easily write of my family’s history”, Harden said, “but this was the most difi cult task I ever attempted. And, as it turned out, what I had written was more of an autobiography.” What’s next for Harden’s pencil? He says he wants to try writing fi ction. He plans to write a novel about a now-lost love of motorcycling. It will actually be an adventure/murder/suspense tale with a woman protagonist and he has already collected many pages of notes. Asked when the novel would be ready for readers, Harden smiled and said, “I can only say as mother’s have always told their children, “We’ll just have to wait and see”
Download or read book Plu ri bus tah written by Q. K. Philander Doesticks and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic history of the United States, written in the style of Longfellow's Hiawatha.
Download or read book To Live in Peace written by Edith H. Brittan and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Busing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5 and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loyal Hearts written by Eugene Taylor Sawyer and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Pratt written by David Nobbs and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE COMPLETE PRATT compiles the first three volumes of the misadventures of Henry Pratt, beginning with a brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood in SECOND FROM LAST IN THE SACK RACE; Henry's first job is as a cub reporter on the Thurmarsh Evening Argus, told in PRATT OF THE ARGUS, hailed by Sue Townsend as 'very funny'. Finally, in THE CUCUMBER MAN, Henry decides to take on a new role and a new challenge - working for the Cucumber Marketing Board in Leeds. Stumbling through the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, Henry accumulates marriages and children along the way and THE COMPLETE PRATT is a touching and hilarious ride through a divided Britain...
