A Year In Mississippi

Author : James Meredith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496821025
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Years in Mississippi written by James Meredith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 1, 1962, James Meredith was the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Preceded by violent rioting resulting in two deaths and a lengthy court battle that made it all the way to the Supreme Court, his admission was a pivotal moment in civil rights history. Citing his "divine responsibility" to end white supremacy, Meredith risked everything to attend Ole Miss. In doing so, he paved the way for integration across the country. Originally published in 1966, more than ten years after the Supreme Court ended segregation in public schools in Brown v. Board of Education, Meredith describes his intense struggle to attend an all-white university and break down long-held race barriers in one of the most conservative states in the country. This first-person account offers a glimpse into a crucial point in civil rights history and the determination and courage of a man facing unfathomable odds. Reprinted for the first time, this volume features a new introduction by historian Aram Goudsouzian.

Author : Charline R. McCord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496811240
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Year in Mississippi written by Charline R. McCord and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brenda Trigg
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780974320106
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 125 Years at Mississippi State University written by Brenda Trigg and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In vintage photographs, a panorama of the university's history on its 125th anniversary

Author : Michael Copperman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496805860
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teacher written by Michael Copperman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael Copperman left Stanford University for the Mississippi Delta in 2002, he imagined he would lift underprivileged children from the narrow horizons of rural poverty. Well-meaning but naïve, the Asian American from the West Coast soon lost his bearings in a world divided between black and white. He had no idea how to manage a classroom or help children navigate the considerable challenges they faced. In trying to help students, he often found he couldn't afford to give what they required--sometimes with heartbreaking consequences. His desperate efforts to save child after child were misguided but sincere. He offered children the best invitations to success he could manage. But he still felt like an outsider who was failing the children and himself. Teach For America has for a decade been the nation's largest employer of recent college graduates but has come under increasing criticism in recent years even as it has grown exponentially. This memoir considers the distance between the idealism of the organization's creed that "One day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education and reach their full potential" and what it actually means to teach in America's poorest and most troubled public schools. Copperman's memoir vividly captures his disorientation in the divided world of the Delta, even as the author marvels at the wit and resilience of the children in his classroom. To them, he is at once an authority figure and a stranger minority than even they are--a lone Asian, an outsider among outsiders. His journey is of great relevance to teachers, administrators, and parents longing for quality education in America. His frank story shows that the solutions for impoverished schools are far from simple.

Author : David Welky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226887189
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thousand-Year Flood written by David Welky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth anniversary, The Thousand-Year Flood is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky first shows how decades of settlement put Ohio valley farms and towns at risk and how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he tells the gripping story of the river's inexorable rise: residents fled to refugee camps and higher ground, towns imposed martial law, prisoners rioted, Red Cross nurses endured terrifying conditions, and FDR dispatched thousands of relief workers. In a landscape fraught with dangers—from unmoored gas tanks that became floating bombs to powerful currents of filthy floodwaters that swept away whole towns—people hastily raised sandbag barricades, piled into overloaded rowboats, and marveled at water that stretched as far as the eye could see. In the flood's aftermath, Welky explains, New Deal reformers, utopian dreamers, and hard-pressed locals restructured not only the flood-stricken valleys, but also the nation's relationship with its waterways, changes that continue to affect life along the rivers to this day. A striking narrative of danger and adventure—and the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disaster—The Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little-remembered American story.

Author : George H. Devol
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557091102
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi written by George H. Devol and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George H. Devol was the greatest riverboat gambler in the history of the Mississippi. Born in Ohio in 1829, he ran away from home and worked as a cabin boy at age ten. At fourteen he could stack a deck of cards. Over the years, he bilked soldiers, paymasters, cotton buyers, thieves, and businessmen alike. He fought more fights than anyone, and was never beaten. This is his story. Nobody was ever bored by it.

Author : William Bradford Huie
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736953
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Lives for Mississippi written by William Bradford Huie and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Shoulders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585361885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi written by Michael Shoulders and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a children's counting picture book in poetry and prose based upon the history, heritage, and industry of Mississippi.

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034398
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Mississippi written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father and son present an eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi in this book which contemplates the realities of the present day, assesses the most vital concerns of the citizens, gauges how the state has changed, and beholds what the state is like as it enters the 21st century. 105 full-color photos.

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846424
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Airships written by Barry Hannah and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin). One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities of the new American South—a land of high school band contests where good old boys from Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.” —Cynthia Ozick