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Book Vikki Hankins  One Woman s Fight For Her Civil Rights

Download or read book Vikki Hankins One Woman s Fight For Her Civil Rights written by and published by Sunshine Slate. This book was released on with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Power Hungry

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  • Author : Suzanne Cope
  • Publisher : Lawrence Hill Books
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781641604543
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Power Hungry written by Suzanne Cope and published by Lawrence Hill Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them In early 1969 Cleo Silvers and a few Black Panther Party members met at a community center laden with boxes of donated food to cook for the neighborhood children. By the end of the year, the Black Panthers would be feeding more children daily in all of their breakfast programs than the state of California was at that time. More than a thousand miles away, Aylene Quin had spent the decade using her restaurant in McComb, Mississippi, to host secret planning meetings of civil rights leaders and organizations, feed the hungry, and cement herself as a community leader who could bring people together--physically and philosophically--over a meal. These two women's tales, separated by a handful of years, tell the same story: how food was used by women as a potent and necessary ideological tool in both the rural south and urban north to create lasting social and political change. The leadership of these women cooking and serving food in a safe space for their communities was so powerful, the FBI resorted to coordinated extensive and often illegal means to stop the efforts of these two women, and those using similar tactics, under COINTELPRO--turning a blind eye to the firebombing of the children of a restaurant owner, destroying food intended for poor kids, and declaring a community breakfast program a major threat to public safety. But of course, it was never just about the food.

Book Ready from Within

Download or read book Ready from Within written by Septima Poinsette Clark and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Septima Clarke played one of the most essential, but little-recognized roles in the Civil Rights Movement. Born in 1898 in Charleston, South Carolina, she was a public school teacher until 1956, when she was dismissed for refusing to disavow her membership in the National Association for the advancement of Colored People. Subsequently, she worked for the Highlander Folk School, helping to set up Citizenship Schools throughout the South where Black adults could learn to read and prepare to vote. During the 1960s she worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and was a close associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. From 1978 to 1983 she served as the first Black woman on the Charleston School Board. This is a first-person narrative of her life in the context of the Civil Rights Movement. Her story constitutes a major thread in the tapestry of that movement. Book jacket.

Book Remembering Florence Victoria Lucas  Civil Rights Pioneer

Download or read book Remembering Florence Victoria Lucas Civil Rights Pioneer written by Freda Muldoon and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence Victoria Lucas, 1915-1987, was the first Black woman admitted to the practice of law in Queens, New York, in 1940. She came from poor working class parents who supported her ambitions with their most precious assets: their love and their faith in God. She was mentored by other civil rights pioneers, including Thurgood Marshall, Jane Bolin, Sarah Speaks, Walter Gellhorn and Elmer Carter. In turn, Florence Lucas mentored and assisted many others who followed her lead into politics and law. As a lawyer, she organized the largest chapter of the NAACP in Queens, NY and spearheaded the growth of the civil rights movement throughout New York State. She was the first Black woman to be nominated by a major political party for election to the New York City Council. She served as second-in-command of the New York State Commission on Human Rights from 1966-75; helped to re-write New York State's civil rights' law, and design the administrative hearing process. She was a member of the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church, a Sunday school teacher, a choir director and lyricist, who wrote the words to a complex anthem about the civil rights movement, and a tireless fighter for brotherhood, racial and religious harmony. Part One of this book is the author's memoir of Florence Victoria Lucas, telling how, despite rigid de facto segregation in 1959, she bravely reached across racial and religious lines to rescue one troubled white teenager (the author). Part Two traces Florence Victoria Lucas' life and work chronologically, through her own papers and in her own words: her tenacious journey through poverty and discrimination to gain an education, and her principled foray into law practice and the civil rights movement. In each of her activities, she exemplifies, as Thurgood Marshall once said of her, what one American woman can do through unselfish work in the interest of equality and justice for all. .

Book Bringing Them Home

Download or read book Bringing Them Home written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ash Warriors

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  • Author : C. R. Anderegg
  • Publisher : Department of the Air Force
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Ash Warriors written by C. R. Anderegg and published by Department of the Air Force. This book was released on 2000 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1991 the American flag was lowered for the last time at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. This act brought to an end American military presence in the Philippines that extended back over 90 years. It also represented the final act in a drama that began with the initial rumblings in April of that year of the Mount inatubo volcano, located about nine miles to the east of Clark. This book tells the remarkable story of the men and women of the Clark community and their ordeal in planning for and carrying out their evacuation from Clark in face of the impending volcanic activity. It documents the actions of those who remained on the base during the series of Mount Pinatubo' s eruptions, and the packing out of the base during the subsequent months. This is the story of the Ash Warriors, those Air Force men and women who carried out their mission in the face of an incredible series of natural disasters, including volcanic eruption, flood, typhoons, and earthquakes, all of which plagued Clark and the surrounding areas during June and July 1991.

Book Words on Cassette

Download or read book Words on Cassette written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twenty Boy Summer

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  • Author : Sarah Ockler
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2009-06-01
  • ISBN : 031605321X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Twenty Boy Summer written by Sarah Ockler and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty Days. Twenty Boys. One chance to find love. According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in ZanzibarBay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy every day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there's something she hasn't told Frankie---she's already had that kind of romance, and it was with Frankie's older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago. Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this is a debut novel that explores what it truly means to love someone and what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer.

Book Software Studies

Download or read book Software Studies written by Matthew Fuller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.

Book Handbook of Clinical Obstetrics

Download or read book Handbook of Clinical Obstetrics written by E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this quick reference handbook for obstetricians and gynecologists and primary care physicians is designed to complement the parent textbook Clinical Obstetrics: The Fetus & Mother The third edition of Clinical Obstetrics: The Fetus & Mother is unique in that it gives in-depth attention to the two patients – fetus and mother, with special coverage of each patient. Clinical Obstetrics thoroughly reviews the biology, pathology, and clinical management of disorders affecting both the fetus and the mother. Clinical Obstetrics: The Fetus & Mother - Handbook provides the practising physician with succinct, clinically focused information in an easily retrievable format that facilitates diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment. When you need fast answers to specific questions, you can turn with confidence to this streamlined, updated reference.

Book Machiavellian Democracy

Download or read book Machiavellian Democracy written by John P. McCormick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intensifying economic and political inequality poses a dangerous threat to the liberty of democratic citizens. Mounting evidence suggests that economic power, not popular will, determines public policy, and that elections consistently fail to keep public officials accountable to the people. McCormick confronts this dire situation through a dramatic reinterpretation of Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought. Highlighting previously neglected democratic strains in Machiavelli's major writings, McCormick excavates institutions through which the common people of ancient, medieval and Renaissance republics constrained the power of wealthy citizens and public magistrates, and he imagines how such institutions might be revived today. It reassesses one of the central figures in the Western political canon and decisively intervenes into current debates over institutional design and democratic reform. McCormick proposes a citizen body that excludes socioeconomic and political elites and grants randomly selected common people significant veto, legislative and censure authority within government and over public officials.

Book Words on Cassette  2002

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  • Author : R R Bowker Publishing
  • Publisher : R. R. Bowker
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780835245166
  • Pages : 2466 pages

Download or read book Words on Cassette 2002 written by R R Bowker Publishing and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2002 with total page 2466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Seeds of America Trilogy  Boxed Set

Download or read book The Seeds of America Trilogy Boxed Set written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you risk to be free? It’s 1776 and Isabel, Curzon, and Ruth have only ever known life as slaves. But now the young country of America is in turmoil—there are whisperings, then cries, of freedom from England spreading like fire, and with it is a whole new type of danger. For freedom being fought for one isn’t necessarily freedom being fought for all…especially if you are a slave. But if an entire nation can seek its freedom, why can’t they? As war breaks out, sides must be chosen, death is at every turn, and one question forever rings in their ears: Would you risk everything to be free? As battles rage up and down the Eastern seaboard, Isabel, Curzon, and Ruth flee, separate, fight, face unparalleled heartbreak and, just like war, they must depend on their allies—and each other—if they are to survive. Which leads to a second, harrowing question: Amidst so much pain and destruction, can they even recognize who their allies are?

Book Current Law Index

Download or read book Current Law Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Infusion Therapy

Download or read book Infusion Therapy written by and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the Standards was written and developed by an international group of clinical experts who are entrenched in the altruistic pursuit of excellence in infusion therapy. The rigor applied to the revision of this edition is exceptional. Additional content addresses 3 emerging practice challenges/trends in infusion therapy through the inclusion of new standards: Drug Diversion in Infusion Therapy, Vasopressor Administration, and Home Infusion Therapy. The Standards statements are declarative and straightforward, establishing the practice expectations of each clinician by which the quality of practice, service, or education is judged.