Beyond The Burning Bus

Author : J. Phillips Noble
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603060103
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Burning Bus written by J. Phillips Noble and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council did not prevent all disorder in Anniston - there was one death and the usual threats, crossburnings, and a widely publicized beating of two black ministers - yet Anniston was spared much of the civil rights bitterness that raged in other places in the turbulent mid-sixties."--Jacket.

Author : J. Phillips Noble
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603060707
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Burning Bus written by J. Phillips Noble and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anniston, Alabama, is a small industrial city between Birmingham and Atlanta. In 1961, the city’s potential for race-related violence was graphically revealed when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed a Freedom Riders bus. In response to that incident, a few black and white leaders in Anniston took a progressive view that desegregation was inevitable and that it was better to unite the community than to divide it. To that end, the city created a biracial Human Relations Council which set about to quietly dismantle Jim Crow segregation laws and customs. This was such a novel notion in George Wallace’s Alabama that President Kennedy phoned with congratulations. The Council did not prevent all disorder in Anniston—there was one death and the usual threats, crossburnings, and a widely publicized beating of two black ministers—yet Anniston was spared much of the civil rights bitterness that raged in other places in the turbulent mid-sixties. Author Phil Noble’s account is carefully researched but told from a personal viewpoint. It shows once again that the civil rights movement was not monolithic either for those who were in it or those who were opposed to it.

Author : Shaari Isa
Publisher : Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books
ISBN 13 : 9674608265
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Yamashita and Percival written by Shaari Isa and published by Malaysian Institute of Translation & Books. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is set against the background of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore during the Second World years of 1941 to 1945. As implied from the title, is is not merely a story about two generals, Yamashita and Percival, but also the effect of their decisions upon the lives of people who were caught in the war the British residents and the locals of diverse cultures. The novel focuses on the theme of love and war. It discusses the frailties of human emotion that led to both. It portrays the lives of the various societies there at the time before, during and after the outbreak of the war: first the British, the elite society during the colonial years with their comfortable life, quite ignorant of Japanese clandestine activities, which were to have such a profound effect on their lives soon after. Amidst all these the novel also portrays the love, illicit and otherwise that inevitably grew out the events related to the war. In addition, the novel also looks at other parts of the social environment, at the effects of the war on the local population: the Malays who saw the war as an opportunity to prepare themselves towards self-government and independence; the Chinese who looked upon the Japanese as their bitter enemies for invading their homeland, China, and who must opposed at all costs; the Indians who were indifferent to all events around them; their main concern being to earn just enough for themselves and for their families back home in India. This is a novel dominated by historical facts related to the war period interlaced with fictional events related to the life and the loves of the fictional characters during the war. It carries a message about the meaninglessness of war; that pride of the victor is just temporary and trivial but the human suffering caused by the war is unfathomable and simply unforgivable. Shaari Isa has equal love for academic and creative writings. He began his career as a teacher and subsequently became a professional accountant and a university lecturer. His writings reflects his deep concern for social order, clear thinking and human happiness. He lives in Kuala Lumpur.

Author : Ellen Griffith Spears
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469611724
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baptized in PCBs written by Ellen Griffith Spears and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's battles for environmental justice, exposing how systemic racial and class inequalities reinforced during the Jim Crow era played out in these intense contemporary social movements. Spears focuses attention on key figures who shaped Anniston--from Monsanto's founders, to white and African American activists, to the ordinary Anniston residents whose lives and health were deeply affected by the town's military-industrial history and the legacy of racism. Situating the personal struggles and triumphs of Anniston residents within a larger national story of regulatory regimes and legal strategies that have affected toxic towns across America, Spears unflinchingly explores the causes and implications of environmental inequalities, showing how civil rights movement activism undergirded Anniston's campaigns for redemption and justice.

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595267742
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silly Beyond All Get Out written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : P R Adams
Publisher : Promethean Tales
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Burning Sands written by P R Adams and published by Promethean Tales. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deadliest hunter is human. Reggie Lee has survived the nightmarish, genetically engineered horrors of Cro-Magnons and sharpteeth that ruled the ruins of Las Vegas. Now he must face the greatest threat of all: another human. Snake is a former rival from the world before the cataclysm, and he has declared war on all other humans. To survive, Reggie must find more answers, because fighting Snake will require a strength Reggie might not have. But if he can't stop Snake, humanity truly is doomed. Read book three of this horrifying post-apocalyptic series and see if you can go Beyond Burning Sands.

Author : Jonathan Mooney
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805088045
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Short Bus written by Jonathan Mooney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labeled "dyslexic and profoundly learning disabled with attention and behavior problems," Jonathan Mooney was a short bus rider--a derogatory term used for kids in special education and a distinction that told the world he wasn't "normal." Along with other kids with special challenges, he grew up hearing himself denigrated daily. Ultimately, Mooney surprised skeptics by graduating with honors from Brown University. But he could never escape his past, so he hit the road. To free himself and to learn how others had moved beyond labels, he bought his own short bus and set out cross-country, looking for kids who had dreamed up magical, beautiful ways to overcome the obstacles that separated them from the so-called normal world.--From publisher description.

Author : Karen L. Cox
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813063647
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destination Dixie written by Karen L. Cox and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to “See Rock City” or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors—and defines itself—yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories. Included are essays on the meanings of New Orleans cemeteries; Stone Mountain, Georgia; historic Charleston, South Carolina; Yorktown National Battlefield; Selma, Alabama, as locus of the civil rights movement; and the homes of Mark Twain, Margaret Mitchell, and other notables. Destination Dixie reveals that heritage tourism in the South is about more than just marketing destinations and filling hotel rooms; it cuts to the heart of how southerners seek to shape their identity and image for a broader touring public—now often made up of northerners and southerners alike.

Author : George Kennedy
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826217303
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Good is Journalism? written by George Kennedy and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compilation of essays that show how good journalistic practices enrich the daily lives of citizens, trace the development of free expression through American history, and enable citizens to play their own roles in the democracy, while also showing how these principles are playing a revolutionary role in emerging democracies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131786624X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of African-American Leadership written by John White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of black emancipation is one of the most dramatic themes of American history, covering racism, murder, poverty and extreme heroism. Figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the demigods of the freedom movements, both film and household figures. This major text explores the African-American experience of the twentieth century with particular reference to six outstanding race leaders. Their philosophies and strategies for racial advancement are compared and set against the historical framework and constraints within which they functioned. The book also examines the 'grass roots' of black protest movements in America, paying particular attention to the major civil rights organizations as well as black separatist groups such as the Nation of Islam.