Download or read book White Man s Cotton written by Randy Somerton and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a twist on history, author R.W. Somerton looks at racism, hatred and injustice from an alternative perspective. A group of elite African-Americans is kidnapping selected white racists - and turning them into slaves, picking White Man's Cotton. Told in turn from the perspective of the slaves and that of their captors, White Man's Cotton looks at the power of hate and its universality, regardless of race or creed. violent, suspenseful and thrilling, this novel examines the roots of hatred and explores the lengths to which people will go in their search for revenge the struggle to end injustice and intolerance. A work of speculative fiction, it is intended to provoke an evaluation of our beliefs and our understanding of justice and equality.
Download or read book Get out of Jena written by Levi M. Hatcher and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get Out Of Jena takes a look into the conditions that makes for racial divides to persist in any modern day American society that refuses to acknowledge the contributions that any race makes to that society. Through the real life experiences of a family from LaSalle Parish, Louisiana- where Jena is the parish seat- we can see how such conditions- when ignored- can create a hostile situation. In North American society we cannot over look the crippling effects of slaverys contribution to these conditions. How it affects economic struggles, attitudes and the pride of a people, on both sides of the color line. Get Out Of Jena does not lay the responsibility to change these conditions on the shoulders of any one race or people. Therefore the adults of both sides contribute to these conditions, either by submission or omission. In the end we will see how it is the youth that pay a bigger price for the arrogance of those conditioned adults. The price they pay for their refusal to acknowledge the importance of all its citizens. The question this book asks is can any of us run away from that responsibility, no matter how large or small we think our responsibility is. And if we do run away, where would we go, and will we ever be called back to deal with the conditions we left behind.
Download or read book Serving up Hope and Freedom written by Mae A. Kendall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-06-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than sixty-five years after the end of the American Civil War, African-Americans still dealt with the debilitating poverty of sharecropping and the Depression, and the violence of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1930s. Two African-American brothers, James and Robert Paschal, persevered despite these limitations and realized their dreams through years of hard work and determination. Serving Up Hope and Freedom is the moving true story of the Paschal brothers from Georgia. Fighting against the odds of a sharecropping life, James and Robert went on to become millionaires, philanthropists, world-renowned restaurant/hotel owners, and leaders in the struggle for civil rights. As told by James Paschal, this memoir showcases the brothers' extraordinary devotion to making a difference in the world, inspiring others to tap into the unlimited power of their dreams. Their legacy will continue to provide hope, inspiration, and encouragement for future generations.
Download or read book Hell Town written by W.R. Benton and published by Loose Cannon. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railroads & Indian wars Blamed for a botched Army attack on an Indian village, Scout-Interpreter Wilmont Seth finds his services are no longer needed by the General in charge. Unsure of his future, he heads for Omaha hoping to find work with the railroad companies. Seth doesn't know it but he’s about to cross paths with 'Dull Knife', a young Sioux warrior. Dull Knife seeks glory in battle against the white men seizing tribal lands, as they build an iron trail over the Plains. Now a scout for the railroads, Seth is tricked into helping a deadly plot to steal the lands from the fierce Sioux tribes. When he realizes his mistake, he goes after the ring leaders to settle the score...his way. An exciting tale of frontier life and raw savagery. It’s all out war in this trailblazing, adventure packed Western from author W.R. Benton.
Download or read book Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tip of the Arrow written by Charles A. Bonner and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of my book, The Tip of the Arrow, A Study in Leadership, is to share with young people of today and tomorrow the story of young people like me at age sixteen as the blueprint of the Selma Student Nonviolent Civil Rights movement, a significant impacting factor in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the dominating influence leading to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. On February 24, 2016, during a ceremony awarding the Congressional Gold Medal at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, I beamed with personal pride upon hearing Speaker Paul Ryan's statement that Congress decided to bestow the award to the foot soldiers because their contribution to our country was so great that they deserved the highest honor in our possession, the Congressional Gold Medal. The Tip of the Arrow is our story.
Download or read book Industrial Development and Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1956 each vol. includes as a regular number the Blue book of southern progress and the Southern industrial directory, formerly issued separately.
Download or read book White Man s Heaven written by Kimberly Harper and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on court records, newspaper accounts, penitentiary records, letters, and diaries, White Man’s Heaven is a thorough investigation into the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kimberly Harper explores events in the towns of Monett, Pierce City, Joplin, and Springfield, Missouri, and Harrison, Arkansas, to show how post–Civil War vigilantism, an established tradition of extralegal violence, and the rapid political, economic, and social change of the New South era happened independently but were also part of a larger, interconnected regional experience. Even though some whites, especially in Joplin and Springfield, tried to stop the violence and bring the lynchers to justice, many African Americans fled the Ozarks, leaving only a resilient few behind and forever changing the racial composition of the region.
Download or read book Unsettling America written by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multicultural array of poets explore what it is means to be American This powerful and moving collection of poems stretches across the boundaries of skin color, language, ethnicity, and religion to give voice to the lives and experiences of ethnic Americans. With extraordinary honesty, dignity, and insight, these poems address common themes of assimilation, communication, and self-perception. In recording everyday life in our many American cultures, they displace the myths and stereotypes that pervade our culture. Unsettling America includes work by: Amiri Baraka Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Rita Dove Louise Erdich Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Garrett Hongo Li-Young Lee Pat Mora Naomi Shihab Nye Marye Percy Ishmael Reed Alberto Rios Ntozake Shange Gary Soto Lawrence Ferlinghetti Nellie Wong David Hernandez Mary TallMountain ...and many more.
Download or read book The Rural Carolinian written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And I m Glad written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And I'm Glad: An Oral History of Edisto Island explores the island's history through the eyes and in the voices of two Edisto farmers, Sam Gadsden and Bubberson Brown, who grew up, labored, raised families, and made their lives on the island. These narratives, tracing the arrival of the first black pioneers, the subsequent slave culture during the 1800s, the difficulties of Reconstruction, to the Edisto of the twentieth century, document both the African-American legacy of the island and the personal struggles of two black men. Overcoming the unpredictability of the Lowcountry's weather, such as the historic Hurricane of 1893 and subsequent storms, the hardships of Depression-era America, and the double standards of a pre-Civil Rights South, Gadsden and Brown detail triumphant lives full of service, hard work, good humor, and faith.
Download or read book Murder at Montpelier written by Douglas Brent Chambers and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures written by Harro Maat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American societies.
Download or read book A Sailor s Garland written by John Masefield and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cotton s Queer Relations written by Michael P. Bibler and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally breaking through heterosexual clichés of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty "Jezebels," Cotton’s Queer Relations exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. Focusing on works by Ernest J. Gaines, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, Margaret Walker, William Styron, and Arna Bontemps, Michael P. Bibler shows how each one uses figures of same-sex intimacy to suggest a more progressive alternative to the pervasive inequalities tied historically and symbolically to the South’s most iconic institution. Bibler looks specifically at relationships between white men of the planter class, between plantation mistresses and black maids, and between black men, arguing that while the texts portray the plantation as a rigid hierarchy of differences, these queer relations privilege a notion of sexual sameness that joins the individuals as equals in a system where equality is rare indeed. Bibler reveals how these models of queer egalitarianism attempt to reconcile the plantation’s regional legacies with national debates about equality and democracy, particularly during the eras of the New Deal, World War II, and the civil rights movement. Cotton’s Queer Relations charts bold new territory in southern studies and queer studies alike, bringing together history and cultural theory to offer innovative readings of classic southern texts. A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org.
Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama written by Alabama. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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