March 14, 1950. pp. 71-110
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Small Business
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Small Business
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Small Business
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Small Business
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shareen Blair Brysac
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002-05-23
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0199923884
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred Harnack and her husband, Arvid, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured, and tried some four score members of the Harnacks' group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra. Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16, 1943, on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--she was the only American woman to be executed as an underground conspirator during World War II. Yet as the war ended and the Cold War began, her courage, idealism, and self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledged in America and the democratic West, and were distorted and sanitized in the Communist East. Only now, with the opening of long-sealed archives from Germany, the KGB, the CIA, and the FBI, can the full story be told. In this superbly told life of an unjustly forgotten woman, Shareen Blair Brysac depicts the human side of a controversial resistance group that for too long has been portrayed as merely a Soviet espionage network.
Author: Ruth Feldstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 019971827X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the Benjamin L. Hooks National Book Award Winnter of the Michael Nelson Prize of the International Association for Media and History In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a "show tune." Then she began to sing: "Alabama's got me so upset/Tennessee made me lose my rest/And everybody knows about Mississippi Goddam!" Simone, and her song, became icons of the civil rights movement. But her confrontational style was not the only path taken by black women entertainers. In How It Feels to Be Free, Ruth Feldstein examines celebrated black women performers, illuminating the risks they took, their roles at home and abroad, and the ways that they raised the issue of gender amid their demands for black liberation. Feldstein focuses on six women who made names for themselves in the music, film, and television industries: Simone, Lena Horne, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, and Cicely Tyson. These women did not simply mirror black activism; their performances helped constitute the era's political history. Makeba connected America's struggle for civil rights to the fight against apartheid in South Africa, while Simone sparked high-profile controversy with her incendiary lyrics. Yet Feldstein finds nuance in their careers. In 1968, Hollywood cast the outspoken Lincoln as a maid to a white family in For Love of Ivy, adding a layer of complication to the film. That same year, Diahann Carroll took on the starring role in the television series Julia. Was Julia a landmark for casting a black woman or for treating her race as unimportant? The answer is not clear-cut. Yet audiences gave broader meaning to what sometimes seemed to be apolitical performances. How It Feels to Be Free demonstrates that entertainment was not always just entertainment and that "We Shall Overcome" was not the only soundtrack to the civil rights movement. By putting black women performances at center stage, Feldstein sheds light on the meanings of black womanhood in a revolutionary time.
Author: Ruth Feldstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0195314034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Do What You Gotta Do examines the role of black female entertainers in the Civil Rights movement.
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Publisher: Penn State Press
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Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780271041681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House
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Published: 1950
Total Pages: 1598
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."