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Book Social Problems of Alabama

Download or read book Social Problems of Alabama written by Hastings Hornell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Problems of Alabama

Download or read book Social Problems of Alabama written by Hastings Hornell Hart and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America

Download or read book A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America written by and published by Martino Publishing. This book was released on 1928 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Satchel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Larry Tye
  • Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
  • Release : 2010-05-04
  • ISBN : 0812977971
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Satchel written by Larry Tye and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The superbly researched, spellbindingly told story of athlete, showman, philosopher, and boundary breaker Leroy “Satchel” Paige “Among the rare biographies of an athlete that transcend sports . . . gives us the man as well as the myth.”—The Boston Globe Few reliable records or news reports survive about players in the Negro Leagues. Through dogged detective work, award-winning author and journalist Larry Tye has tracked down the truth about this majestic and enigmatic pitcher, interviewing more than two hundred Negro Leaguers and Major Leaguers, talking to family and friends who had never told their stories before, and retracing Paige’s steps across the continent. Here is the stirring account of the child born to an Alabama washerwoman with twelve young mouths to feed, the boy who earned the nickname “Satchel” from his enterprising work as a railroad porter, the young man who took up baseball on the streets and in reform school, inventing his trademark hesitation pitch while throwing bricks at rival gang members. Tye shows Paige barnstorming across America and growing into the superstar hurler of the Negro Leagues, a marvel who set records so eye-popping they seemed like misprints, spent as much money as he made, and left tickets for “Mrs. Paige” that were picked up by a different woman at each game. In unprecedented detail, Tye reveals how Paige, hurt and angry when Jackie Robinson beat him to the Majors, emerged at the age of forty-two to help propel the Cleveland Indians to the World Series. He threw his last pitch from a big-league mound at an improbable fifty-nine. (“Age is a case of mind over matter,” he said. “If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.”) More than a fascinating account of a baseball odyssey, Satchel rewrites our history of the integration of the sport, with Satchel Paige in a starring role. This is a powerful portrait of an American hero who employed a shuffling stereotype to disarm critics and racists, floated comical legends about himself–including about his own age–to deflect inquiry and remain elusive, and in the process methodically built his own myth. “Don’t look back,” he famously said. “Something might be gaining on you.” Separating the truth from the legend, Satchel is a remarkable accomplishment, as large as this larger-than-life man.

Book The Problem South

    Book Details:
  • Author : Natalie J. Ring
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2012-04-01
  • ISBN : 0820344028
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Problem South written by Natalie J. Ring and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most historians, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw the hostilities of the Civil War and the dashed hopes of Reconstruction give way to the nationalizing forces of cultural reunion, a process that is said to have downplayed sectional grievances and celebrated racial and industrial harmony. In truth, says Natalie J. Ring, this buoyant mythology competed with an equally powerful and far-reaching set of representations of the backward Problem South—one that shaped and reflected attempts by northern philanthropists, southern liberals, and federal experts to rehabilitate and reform the country’s benighted region. Ring rewrites the history of sectional reconciliation and demonstrates how this group used the persuasive language of social science and regionalism to reconcile the paradox of poverty and progress by suggesting that the region was moving through an evolutionary period of “readjustment” toward a more perfect state of civilization. In addition, The Problem South contends that the transformation of the region into a mission field and laboratory for social change took place in a transnational moment of reform. Ambitious efforts to improve the economic welfare of the southern farmer, eradicate such diseases as malaria and hookworm, educate the southern populace, “uplift” poor whites, and solve the brewing “race problem” mirrored the colonial problems vexing the architects of empire around the globe. It was no coincidence, Ring argues, that the regulatory state's efforts to solve the “southern problem” and reformers’ increasing reliance on social scientific methodology occurred during the height of U.S. imperial expansion.

Book Economic and Social History of the World War  Leland  W G  Introduction to the American official sources for the economic and social history of the world war  1926

Download or read book Economic and Social History of the World War Leland W G Introduction to the American official sources for the economic and social history of the world war 1926 written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Race  Class  and Power in the Alabama Coalfields  1908 21

Download or read book Race Class and Power in the Alabama Coalfields 1908 21 written by Brian Kelly and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lucid and supremely readable study, Brian Kelly challenges the prevailing notion that white workers were the main source of resistance to racial equality in the Jim Crow South. Kelly explores the forces that brought the black and white miners of Birmingham, Alabama, together during the hard-fought strikes of 1908 and 1920. He examines the systematic efforts by the region's powerful industrialists to foment racial divisions as a means of splitting the workforce, preventing unionization, and holding wages to the lowest levels in the country. He also details the role played by Birmingham's small but influential black middle class, whose espousal of industrial accommodation outraged black miners and revealed significant tensions within the African-American community.

Book Pamphlet

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Pamphlet written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Civil War to Civil Rights  Alabama 1860   1960

Download or read book From Civil War to Civil Rights Alabama 1860 1960 written by and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1987-10-30 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Civil War to Civil Rights, Alabama 1860-1960 offers a collection of insightful and illuminating essays from The Alabama Review which trace the history of Alabama from the dramatic destruction of the Civil War to the turbulent early years of the Civil Rights movements.

Book Among Our Books

Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Domestic Commerce Series

Download or read book Domestic Commerce Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Domestic Commerce Series

Download or read book Domestic Commerce Series written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. (Dept. of commerce). and published by . This book was released on with total page 1800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : United States. Office of Education
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 882 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications

Download or read book Monthly Record of Current Educational Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America and World War I

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Woodward
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-01-11
  • ISBN : 1135864799
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book America and World War I written by David Woodward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America and World War I, the first volume in the new Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies series, provides a concise, annotated guide to the vast amount of resources available on the Great War. With over 2,000 entries selected from a wide variety of publications, manuscript collections, databases, and online resources, this volume will be an invaluable research tool for students, scholars, and military history buffs alike. The wide range of topics covered include war films and literature, to civil-military relations, to women and war. Routledge Research Guides to American Military Studies will include concise, easy-to-use bibliographic volumes on different American military campaigns throughout history, as well as tackling timely subjects such as women in the military and terrorism.

Book Monthly List of State Publications

Download or read book Monthly List of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Division of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: