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Author: Emmett P Cooper
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-02
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Do you like fans? Maybe you have some fans in a collection at home. Emmett sure does. In this book we will look at more fans that Emmett has in his collection, along with some interesting details about the fans. This is the second book in the Emmett's Fans series.
Author: Emmett Cooper
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-10-27
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781978144286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Emmett's Fans is a book about a little boy who collects fans for a hobby. He shares photos of his fans, along with a short description about each.
Author: Clenora Hudson PhD
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2014-06-02
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1496916336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →So help me God, until my dying day, Im going to be fighting this thing. Im not going to be fighting color. Im not going to be fighting creed. Im not going to be fighting anyones belief, so long as its a safe and sound one, so long as it doesnt reach out and destroy me or destroy someone else. . . . We should stand up, we should make a stand once and for all, we should say that were going to live as men and women. (Excerpt, Mamies 2nd speaking engagement in South Bend, IN, following the trial in Money, MS , OCT 1955--Hudson-Weems, Emmett Till: Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement, 1994, p. 240) The fervent prayers of Tills mother, Mamie Till Mobley, for everlasting justice and transcendent mercy have been finally answered through this gripping narrative by Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems. Emmett speaks eternal truth to power. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr.--President and CEO National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) Truly we have witnessed it all. We have seen the anger, felt the pain, endured the violence. From submissiveness, to rebellion, to assimilation, at last Emmetts story and Whittens redemption bring true heroes and iconic models for us all. Aubrey Bruce--Senior Sports Columnist New Pittsburgh Courier In Emmett, Clenora gives us all that we need to advance to positive 21st. century race relations, which could greatly curtail racial domination thus, escalating to racial healing. A cause clbre, coming on the heels of The Butler, 12 Years a Slave and Selma, Emmett no doubt is both timely and urgent! Barry Morrow--Oscar Award Winning Co-Writer of Rain Man and Producer
Author: Greta McKennan
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Published: 2017-05-16
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1516101685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historical seamstress Daria Dembrowski has her work cut out for her as she searches for a killer's pattern . . . Daria has come up with a brilliant new plan to expand her seamstress business beyond stitching wedding gowns—historical sewing. And with Civil War re-enactors setting up camp in her hometown of Laurel Springs, Pennsylvania, she has plenty of opportunities, including one client playing a Confederate colonel who's a particular stickler for authenticity. But soon the small-town peace starts coming apart at the seams as an antique doll is stolen from a Civil War exhibit and the cranky colonel is found impaled by his own bayonet. When Daria's brother is suspected of the theft and a bridal client's fiancé is accused of the murder, Daria is determined to untangle the clues to prove their innocence. She needs to get this case sewn up fast, though, before the murderer re-enacts the crime and makes her history.
Author: David L. Porter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1995-10-30
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0313387583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →African-American athletes have played a significant role in the development and popularity of American professional sports, and have encountered numerous obstacles on the road to athletic success. This is the first comprehensive multi-sport biographical dictionary of African Americans who reached the pinnacles of success in their sport. It contains more personal and career profiles of African-American sports greats than are found in any other single source. Biographical profiles of 166 noted athletes, coaches, and administrators in team and individual sports include both Ristorical figures such as Jesse Owens and Satchel Paige and contemporary stars such as Charles Barkley, Ken Griffey, Jr., Michael Jordan, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Shaquille O'Neal, and Emmitt Smith. Forty-four sports historians contributed the colorfully written biographies, which blend both personal background information and athletic career accomplishments. All information is current through the middle of 1995. The dictionary covers the contributions made by African-American greats in football, baseball, basketball, track and field, boxing, wrestling, auto and stock car racing, golf, thoroughbred racing, tennis, cycling, and figure skating. More than two-thirds of the entries represent team sports. The dictionary is organized alphabetically by person. Each colorfully written profile is 800-1,000 words in length and traces the subject's personal life, family and educational background, personal struggles, career accomplishments, records set, statistical data, awards and honors, and overall impact; and features lively quotations by and about the sports luminaries. Each entry contains a handy bibliography of books and articles about the subject. Biographies of managers, coaches, and club executives describe their teams, statistical achievements, accomplishments, strategy, and sports impact. A general introduction traces the historic struggle of African-American athletes in professional and Olympic sports and appendices provide alphabetical listings of biographical entries and entries by sport. A selection of photos complement the profiles. For the sports fan or librarian, this is a first stop for biographical information that captures the personality of the athlete and includes all the pertinent information about his or her accomplishments. It is an essential addition to the reference sections of junior high, high school, and public libraries.
Author: Harriet Pollack
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0807154830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The horrific 1955 slaying of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till marks a significant turning point in the history of American race relations. An African American boy from Chicago, Till was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta when he was accused of "wolf-whistling" at a young white woman. His murderers abducted him from his great-uncle's home, beat him, then shot him in the head. Three days later, searchers discovered his body in the Tallahatchie River. The two white men charged with his murder received a swift acquittal from an all-white jury. The eleven essays in Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination examine how the narrative of the Till lynching continues to haunt racial consciousness and to resonate in our collective imagination.The trial and acquittal of Till's murderers became, in the words of one historian, "the first great media event of the civil rights movement," and since then, the lynching has assumed a central place in literary memory. The international group of contributors to this volume explores how the Emmett Till story has been fashioned and refashioned in fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography by writers as diverse as William Bradford Huie, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Anne Moody, Nicolás Guillén, Aimé Césaire, Bebe Moore Campbell, and Lewis Nordan. They suggest the presence of an "Emmett Till narrative" deeply embedded in post-1955 literature, an overarching recurrent plot that builds on recognizable elements and is as legible as the "lynching narrative" or the "passing narrative." Writers have fashioned Till's story in many ways: an the annotated bibliography that ends the volume discusses more than 130 works that memorialize the lynching, calling attention to the full extent of Till's presence in literary memory. Breaking new ground in civil rights studies and the discussion of race in America, Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination eloquently attests to the special power and artistic resonance of one young man's murder.
Author: Bethany Tabieros
Publisher:
Published: 2021-01-26
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fans are everywhere! While you may think ceiling fans are all the same, you will learn they come in all shapes, sizes and colors. Fans of ceiling fans will adore learning all about these feats of engineering and artistry.
Author: Timothy B. Tyson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-01-31
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1476714843
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Draws on firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement.
Author: Dave Tell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-02-15
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 022655967X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you’ll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and injustice that became a beacon in the fight for racial equality. The ways this event is remembered have been fraught from the beginning, revealing currents of controversy, patronage, and racism lurking just behind the placid facades of historical markers. In Remembering Emmett Till, Dave Tell gives us five accounts of the commemoration of this infamous crime. In a development no one could have foreseen, Till’s murder—one of the darkest moments in the region’s history—has become an economic driver for the Delta. Historical tourism has transformed seemingly innocuous places like bridges, boat landings, gas stations, and riverbeds into sites of racial politics, reminders of the still-unsettled question of how best to remember the victim of this heinous crime. Tell builds an insightful and persuasive case for how these memorials have altered the Delta’s physical and cultural landscape, drawing potent connections between the dawn of the civil rights era and our own moment of renewed fire for racial justice.
Author: Christopher Metress
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780813921228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was abducted from his great-uncle's cabin in Mississippi and killed. With a collection of more than 100 documents, Metress retells Till's story in a unique and daring wayQjuxtaposing news accounts and investigative journalism with memoirs, poetry, and fiction.
