Download or read book A New Day in the Delta written by David W. Beckwith and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Mississippi’s school desegregation from the viewpoint of a white teacher A New Day in the Delta is a fresh and appealing memoir of the experience of a young white college graduate in need of a job as the Vietnam War reached its zenith. David Beckwith applied and was accepted for a teaching position in the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1969. Although it seemed to him a bit strange that he was accepted so quickly for this job while his other applications went nowhere, he was grateful for the opportunity. Beckwith reported for work to learn that he was to be assigned to an all-black school as the first step in Mississippi’s long-deferred school desegregation. The nation and Mississippi alike were being transformed by war and evolving racial relations, and Beckwith found himself on the cutting edge of the transformation of American education and society in one of the most resistant (and poor) corners of the country. Beckwith’s revealing and often amusing story of the year of mutual incomprehension between an inexperienced white teacher and a classroom full of black children who had had minimal contact with any whites. This is history as it was experienced by those who were thrust into another sort of “front line.”
Download or read book New Delta Rising written by Barry H. Smith and published by University Press of Mississippi/The Dreyfus Health Foundation/The Rogosin Institute. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling look at the people and places of today's Mississippi Delta
Download or read book A New Day written by Akinade Akintunde E. (ed.) and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unprecedented resurgence, renewal, and rebirth of twenty-first century Christianity in postcolonial societies, such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America, calls for new insights, methodologies, and paradigms since the West can no longer be regarded as the sole citadel and cradle of the Christian faith. The Christian message has been reshaped and reappropriated in different contexts and cultures and, through this cross-cultural transmission and transformation, it has become a world religion. Contextualizing the Christian faith also entails decolonizing its theology, precepts, and dogma. These efforts continue to engender new initiatives and efforts in the intercultural, interconfessional, intercontinental, and interreligious dimensions of world Christianity. A New Day is a collection of essays in honor of Lamin Sanneh, one of the most adamant advocates and apostles of the radical change in the face of Christianity in the twenty-first century. The essays in this book by recognized scholars deal with issues, themes, and perspectives that are important for understanding Christianity as a world religious movement.
Download or read book A New Day Beyond the Horizon written by K. Meador and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War II was on. Bombs were exploding over Austria, and Adele was a very young girl there. Hitler was in power. Across a big ocean and a thousand miles of land, there was a place called Texas. Paul was a Texas boy and was three years older than Adele. What could these two have in common, and how would they meet decades and a world of experiences later? What important things happened in their lives before and after they met? It is an amazing story!
Download or read book Delta Jewels written by Alysia Burton Steele and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.
Download or read book The Insurmountable Evidence of a New Day Coming written by Kevin Hunt and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dispatches from Pluto written by Richard Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home.
Download or read book A New Day and a New Normal written by Rosemary R. King APRN BC and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One in every eight women is expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer. In January of 2018, author and nurse Rosemary R. King became that one woman, finding herself the patient in the current medical system with all its twists and turns. During her journey, she experienced a host of issues, including changes in her appearance, energy level, family relations, and friendship. It was frightening, scary, and terrifying all at the same time, but King found solace in journaling. It allowed her to quietly put her emotions, thoughts, and feelings down on paper. In A New Day and a New Normal, she offers a journal to help other breast cancer patients record their physical and emotional healing journey. She communicates that there is a new day, and it is a new normal. There is also hope and resolve. This journal also offers comprehensive appendices which include questions to ask specialists, book references, websites, current Facebook support groups, phone apps, and a glossary of terms.
Download or read book Moments in Time written by Ronnie Jordan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is a timeless reflection of thoughts and dreams that are limited only by what ones heart and mind wishes to reveal. Reflections of where our lives have been and what has been learned, loved, lost or achieved. Those reflections may be reminders of special moments with ones mother, father, that special someone or the fulfillment of a longing that was so desperately in need of completion. Poetry at times can be so powerful and inspiring that it has often woven itself into the course of history as well as the hearts of many a nation. Moments In Time- Reflections, will move one to be great as well.
Download or read book Labour in the Clothing Industry in the Asia Pacific written by Vicki Crinis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost advantages make clothing workers part of a globalizing labour market where they increasingly suffer from job insecurity. This book presents carefully researched case studies which highlight the ways in which labour is informalized, fragmented and made disposable by the globalization of production. Chapters address issues pertaining to rights and citizenship, and new forms of activism and organization in conjunction and coordination with diverse support groups, consumers, and wider global campaigns. Contributors further examine the role of the nation state, government regulatory bodies, as well as independent monitoring systems such as the International Labour Organization. Although there has been considerable effort directed to understanding how firms operate across multiple countries – in studies of the organization of global production networks, and the implications for complexities of scale, (de)territorialization and state development projects – there has been far less focus on how these processes produce precarious labour and reshape worker consciousness. Offering new insights into the understanding and support of workers in the global textile and garment industry, this book will be of interest to academics in a variety of disciplines including Asian Studies, sociology, political economy, development, human rights, labour and gender.
Download or read book Delta Dawn written by Stephanie Cruz and published by Big Tomato Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and baby humpback whale stray from the ocean into San Francisco Bay, up the Sacramento River, and with help from friendly humans find their way home again.
Download or read book Dark Cindy written by M. Apostolina and published by M. Apostolina. This book was released on 2006 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Cindy fails to end Meri's reign of terror for the Alpha Beta Delta sorority, she stumbles upon Meri's secret diary and finally figures out how to use Meri's conniving tactics against her.
Download or read book New Day Ascending written by Frederick Leslie Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Search of Sisterhood written by Paula J. Giddings and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Sisterhood is the definitive history of the largest Black women's organization in the United States, and is filled with compelling, fascinating anecdotes told by the Delta Sigma Theta members themselves, illustrated with rare early photographs of the Delta women. This book contains the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST), and details the increasing involvement of Black women in the political, social, and economic affairs of America. Founded at a time when liberal arts education was widely seen as either futile, dangerous, or impractical for Blacks—and especially Black women—DST is, in Giddings's words, a "compelling reflection of Black women's aspirations for themselves and for society." Giddings notes that unlike other organizations with racial goals, Delta Sigma Theta was created to change and benefit individuals rather than society. As a sorority, it was formed to bring women together as sisters, but at the same time to address the divisive, often class-related issues confronting Black women in our society. There is, in Giddings's eyes, a tension between these goals that makes Delta Sigma Theta a fascinating microcosm of the struggles of Black women and their organizations. DST members have included Mary McLeod Bethune, Mary Church Terrell, Margaret Murray Washington, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and, on the cultural side, Leontyne Price, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Judith Jamison, and Roberta Flack.
Download or read book Jinx written by Brett A. Cramer and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 5,000-year-old prophecy has thrown thirteen-year-old Alex Conner's life into a whirlwind of events. Things he knew to be absolutes are no more. His friends treat him differently, his parents treat him differently, the world treats him differently. Even worse, the black wizard sees him as a bigger threat than before. Two weeks before Alex turns thirteen, Zero the Black Wizard travels back in time to kill him. In an effort to maintain balance in Alex’s world, a foretold prophecy is awaken. Unbeknowst to Alex, he is the yin to Zero's yang. Alex must fight to save his family, friends, and his beloved city from the maniac known simply as Zero the Black Wizard all while mastering his new abilities and trying to stay alive.
Download or read book Delta Wedding written by Eudora Welty and published by HMH. This book was released on 1979-03-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel of a Mississippi family in the 1920s “presents the essence of the Deep South and does it with infinite finesse” (The Christian Science Monitor). From one of the most treasured American writers, winner of a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize, comes Delta Wedding, a vivid and charming portrait of Southern life. Set in 1923, the story is centered on the Fairchilds, a big and clamorous family, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. They are in the midst of planning their daughter’s wedding when a nine-year-old relative, Laura McRaven, whose mother has just died, comes to visit. Drama leads to drama, revelation to revelation, in a novel that is “nothing short of wonderful” (The New Yorker). The result is a sometimes-riotous view of a Southern family, and the parentless child who learns to become one of them.
Download or read book I Don t Like the Blues written by B. Brian Foster and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about Black culture and found himself hearing about the blues. One moment, Black Mississippians would say they knew and appreciated the blues. The next, they would say they didn't like it. For five years, Foster listened and asked: "How?" "Why not?" "Will it ever change?" This is the story of the answers to his questions. In this illuminating work, Foster takes us where not many blues writers and scholars have gone: into the homes, memories, speculative visions, and lifeworlds of Black folks in contemporary Mississippi to hear what they have to say about the blues and all that has come about since their forebears first sang them. In so doing, Foster urges us to think differently about race, place, and community development and models a different way of hearing the sounds of Black life, a method that he calls listening for the backbeat.
