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Book The Carillon Neighborhood

Download or read book The Carillon Neighborhood written by Elizabeth L. O'Leary and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creating a Shared Vision

Download or read book Creating a Shared Vision written by Raymond Leon Fitz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Struggle for Change

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  • Author : Marvin T. Chiles
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2023-12-28
  • ISBN : 081395035X
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book The Struggle for Change written by Marvin T. Chiles and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond’s racial politics since the civil rights era by demonstrating that the city’s current racial disparities in economic mobility, housing, and public education actually represent the unintended consequences of Richmond’s racial reconciliation measures. He deftly weaves municipal politics together with grassroots efforts, examining the work and legacies of Richmond’s Black leaders, from Henry Marsh on the city council in the 1960s to Mayor Levar Stoney, to highlight the urban revitalization and public history efforts meant to overcome racial divides after Jim Crow yet which ironically reinforced racial inequality across the city. Compellingly written, this project carries both local and broader regional significance for Richmonders, Virginians, southerners, and all Americans.

Book The Albany Singing Tower

Download or read book The Albany Singing Tower written by William Gorham Rice and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1987

Download or read book Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1987 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My People

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  • Author : Barbara Newman
  • Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
  • Release : 2020-05-20
  • ISBN : 1627877975
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book My People written by Barbara Newman and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My People: The Story of a Virginia Family presents the history of Barbara Newman's American ancestors -- from the earliest colonists who came to Richmond, Charlottesville, and the Shenandoah Valley more than three hundred years ago, to their descendants who fought, suffered, and died for the Confederacy in the nineteenth century. Her twentieth-century grandparents and parents prospered in the Roaring Twenties, endured the calamity of the Great Depression, then gave their all to the Second World War and the Korean Conflict. Newman also brings to life the African-Americans, first under slavery and then under Jim Crow segregation, who worked for her ancestors. Slave-owning planters and poor white farmers, enslaved and free black people, soldiers, lawyers, clerks, teachers, seamstresses, and housewives -- all their stories are included in this rich history of Newman's Virginia ancestors.

Book Construction

Download or read book Construction written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Singing Bronze

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  • Author : Luc Rombouts
  • Publisher : Leuven University Press
  • Release : 2014-05-23
  • ISBN : 905867956X
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Singing Bronze written by Luc Rombouts and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of bell music The carillon, the world’s largest musical instrument, originated in the 16th century when inhabitants of the Low Countries started to produce music on bells in church and city towers. Today, carillon music still fills the soundscape of cities in Belgium and the Netherlands. Since the First World War, carillon music has become popular in the United States, where it adds a spiritual dimension to public parks and university campuses. Singing Bronze opens up the fascinating world of the carillon to the reader. It tells the great stories of European and American carillon history: the quest for the perfect musical bell, the fate of carillons in times of revolt and war, the role of patrons such as John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Herbert Hoover in the development of American carillon culture, and the battle between singing bronze and carillon electronics. Richly illustrated with original photographs and etchings, Singing Bronzetells how people developed, played, and enjoyed bell music. With this book, a fascinating history that is yet little known is made available for a wide public.

Book From the Sanctuary to the Streets

Download or read book From the Sanctuary to the Streets written by Wendy R. McCaig and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be church? Is it spending an hour on Sunday with people who look, think, and act much as we do? Or is it something more incarnational that seeks out those who are different, the ones living on the margins? For centuries Christians have presumed that we are to take the gospel to the poor. Instead, Wendy McCaig invites us to receive the gospel from the poor. Through a series of encounters with incarcerated, homeless, and impoverished individuals, Wendy McCaig experienced the mysterious power of Christian hospitality that turns strangers into family. Her gift for storytelling brings this mysterious transformation to life. Inspired by the dreams of a homeless mother who wanted to help her neighbors, McCaig started a ministry that empowers formerly homeless individuals to live out their dreams. Together these dreamers are transforming their city one person, one community, and one church at a time. Her true stories of the least, the lost, and the forgotten in her community will show you the Good News becoming reality in the midst of injustice in ways that will inspire you and deepen your faith. These twenty stories-within-a-story about what ordinary people can do when they come together across racial, economic, and geographic divides to fight poverty will expand your vision of what it means to be the church. With your eyes opened to the needs and gifts of your neighbors, you too can begin to dream God-sized dreams for a hurting world. And as you pray "thy kingdom come on earth," you will be inspired to live in such a way as to make it happen in your own community.

Book Neighborhood strategies

Download or read book Neighborhood strategies written by Raymond, Parish, Pine & Plavnick and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Lubbock County

Download or read book Historic Lubbock County written by Donald R. Abbe and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reflections

Download or read book Reflections written by L. Shelbert Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, the author, born and raised in a typical midwestern town, reflects on his life experiences from pre-school through college, military service, work, and retirement, the impact of family, friends, and events which have shaped his life. This autobiography also gives a glimpse of this African-American family's survival during the Depression years through the persevering efforts of strong and loving parents who dedicated their life to the educational pursuits and success of their children. The author, L. Shelbert Smith, is Professor Emeritus of Central State University, and has devoted over four decades of his life as an organic chemist in both industry and academe. This book is a journey from a dream of being a scientist, which he had harbored since his high school days, to his days of retirement.

Book Trustbuilding

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  • Author : Rob Corcoran
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2010-03-04
  • ISBN : 0813928818
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Trustbuilding written by Rob Corcoran and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Trustbuilding, using personal narrative and exhaustive reporting by Rob Corcoran, chronicles how Hope in the Cities has moved what looked like an immoveable barricade. The job is not done, but Hope in the Cities has provided a map for the future."—from the foreword by Governor Tim Kaine The national director of Initiatives of Change and founder of Hope in the Cities, Rob Corcoran has been involved in promoting dialogue and conflict reconciliation among diverse and polarized racial, ethnic, and religious groups in an array of locales in Europe, South Africa, India, and the United States for over thirty years. Trustbuilding is part historical narrative and part handbook for a model of dialogue and community change that has been adopted both nationally and internationally. At its center is the story of how Richmond, Virginia, a former slave market, capital of the Confederacy, and leading proponent of Massive Resistance, has become a seedbed for inter-racial dialogue and trustbuilding with national and international implications. In 1993, this conservative southern city caught the attention of the nation with a public acknowledgment of its painful history and a call for "an honest conversation on race, reconciliation, and responsibility." City and county residents of all backgrounds launched an unprecedented and sustained effort to address the "toxic issue of race." Known as Hope in the Cities, this endeavor is now in its second decade of work. Trustbuilding should extend its important mission by carrying Richmond’s story to communities everywhere.

Book Guide to Richmond

Download or read book Guide to Richmond written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Insiders  Guide   to Charlotte

Download or read book Insiders Guide to Charlotte written by Craig Distl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skyscrapers. Sports. NASCAR. Nature. Culinary delights.A world-class, can-do city. A crown jewel of the New South. • A personal, practical perspective for travelers and residents alike • Comprehensive listings of attractions, restaurants, and accommodations • How to live & thrive in the area—from recreation to relocation • Countless details on shopping, arts & entertainment, and children’s activities Our insider, Craig Distl, a native of North Carolina and a longtime Charlottean, has been a journalist for the Charlotte Observer, and his articles have also appeared in Charlotte Magazine, Southern Sports Journal, and Golfweek. His writing has received awards from such organizations as the North Carolina Press Association.

Book The Carillon

Download or read book The Carillon written by Carillon Civic Association (Richmond, Va.) and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Foulois House

Download or read book The Foulois House written by Diana Good Cornelisse and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: