Colored Memories

Author : Susan Curtis
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266290
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colored Memories written by Susan Curtis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lester A. Walton was a well known public figure in his day. An African American journalist, cultural critic, diplomat, and political activist, he was an adviser to presidents and industrialists in a career that spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. He was a steadfast champion of democracy and lived to see the passage of major civil rights legislation. But one word best describes Walton today: forgotten. Exploring the contours of this extraordinary life, Susan Curtis seeks to discover why our collective memory of Walton has failed. In a unique narrative of historical research, she recounts a fifteen year journey, from the streets of Harlem and "The Ville" in St. Louis to scattered archives and obscure public records, as she uncovers the mysterious circumstances surrounding Walton's disappearance from national consciousness. And despite numerous roadblocks and dead ends in her quest, she tells how she came to know this emblematic citizen of the American Century in surprising ways. In this unconventional book¿a postmodern ghost story, an unprecedented experiment in life writing¿Curtis shares her discoveries as a researcher. Relating her frustrating search through long overlooked documents to discover this forgotten man, she offers insight into how America's obsession with race has made Walton's story unwelcome. She explores the treachery, duplicity, and archival accidents that transformed a man dedicated to the fulfillment of American democracy into a shadowy figure. Combining anecdotal memories with the investigative instincts of the historian, Curtis embraces the subjectivity of her research to show that what a society forgets or suppresses is just as important as what it includes in its history. Colored Memories is a highly original work that not only introduces readers to a once influential figure but also invites us to reconsider how we view, understand, and preserve the past.

Author : Elizabeth Anne Castelli
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231129862
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martyrdom and Memory written by Elizabeth Anne Castelli and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilising a wide range of early sources, this title identifies the roots of the concept of Christian martyrdom, as lloking at how it has been expressed in events such as the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999.

Author : Bonnie S MacLachlan
Publisher : Art.Z Illustrations
ISBN 13 : 9780997023756
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connecting Memories - Book 1 written by Bonnie S MacLachlan and published by Art.Z Illustrations. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A Coloring and Activity Book For People With Dementia, Alzheimer's, Stroke, Brain Injury and Other Cognitive Conditions. 27 Simple Simple BLACK-LINE Drawings With Sentence Cuing Common Phrases. * Book 2 has all the same elements, but has Color Cued Drawings for people that Require color cuing. * Book 3 is Books 1 & 2 in one BIG Book. Recommended for healthcare facilities with people suffering from different degrees of Dementia. * Family and caregivers are encouraged to participate - * This Book Was Created With and Recommended By Director Of Therapeutic Recreation Department and Dementia Program Coordinator Long Term Center - Alexis Chiucarello * The Connecting Memories Book Series Are Recommended As A Resource For In-Home and Health-Care Facilities.

Author : Lang Leav
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144947439X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories written by Lang Leav and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Lang Leav, this beautiful gift book is a must-have! Beloved pieces from Lullabies and Love & Misadventure are collected together in this illustrated treasury. In addition, 35 new poems that have not been published in any Lang Leav collection offer something new to discover. The author's original art is presented in lovely four-color illustrations. Lang Leav's evocative poetry in a gorgeous package with ribbon marker and cloth spine is an irresistible gift for any poetry lover!

Author : Ashley Emma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732987937
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color the Amish written by Ashley Emma and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gu FengRuYun
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 163631001X
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supreme Saint Of World written by Gu FengRuYun and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myriad Domain – I call you Sheng, I call all races my king! Xiaohei said, "Cultivators are merciless. Anyone who dares to stand in their way will be killed without mercy!" All living beings said, "Cultivators have emotions, and the Immortal Path is formless and untraceable. It is a world that is tens of thousands of years old!" Chen Fan said, "Heartless is feeling, and my way is the way of the heavens!" Stepping on the galactic waste Heavenly Dao to look down upon the heavens and break the cycle of reincarnation with eternal lamp in hand

Author : Kitty Oliver
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813147581
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl written by Kitty Oliver and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A telling memoir by an exciting new voice, Multicolored Memories of a Black Southern Girl explores journalist Kitty Oliver's coming of age as she makes the crossing from an all-black to a predominantly white world. Born and raised in an all-black area of Jacksonville, Florida, Oliver was one of the first African American freshmen to enter the University of Florida. Though she chronicles the strains of her transition from Jim Crow to desegregation, this book is much more than a memoir of the turbulent sixties. It is an upbeat journal of self-discovery in the aftermath of that decade, a look at one woman's coming to terms with living an integrated life in America. With humor, poignancy, and lyrical language (reminiscent at times of another Florida writer, Zora Neale Hurston), Oliver shares her passage from the "old world" to the new -- an immigrant's journey indicative of the American experience. Blending past and present, she searches for roots from the Gullah or "Geechee" culture of South Carolina to the urban streets of northern Florida to the multicultural mix of South Florida's diverse ethnic cultures, serving up family stories with large helpings of southern "folktalk," food, and music along the way.

Author : National Lincoln Monument Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebration by the Colored People's Educational Monument Association in Memory of Abraham Lincoln written by National Lincoln Monument Association and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Record of the first national celebration by African Americans in the U.S. Contains letters from well-wishers such as Frederick Douglass, Salmon P. Chase, and Charles Sumner; an oration by William Day, a New York lawyer, on freedom and equality and on slavery in the US; and a long poem on slavery by John Pierpont.

Author : Jane S
Publisher : Perkunas Press
ISBN 13 : 1629620556
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Bipolar Life written by Jane S and published by Perkunas Press. This book was released on 2017-11-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CHALLENGE OF LIVING LIFE AS BOTH A BIPOLAR AND AN ALCOHOLIC. Jane S. is one of the 60-percent (or more) of "manic depressives" (persons severely bipolar) who are also alcoholics. Her bipolar life story covers forty-seven years of sobriety and forty-five years on lithium therapy, how her illnesses have interacted, and particularly how much of the shape of her life -- and her achievement of her life's goals (including, for the last forty-seven years, sobriety) -- has been shaped by her bipolarity. This book is important reading for those dealing with "manic depression," either in those close to them or in themselves, and even more for those who suffer from both of Jane's diseases. Her memories include, literally, the good (paying cash down for her first Mustang, though that was because she didn't know how to work a bank account), the bad (the sailboat she was on being boarded by the Coast Guard off Maryland), and the ugly (hearing her head being dribbled like a basketball outside her side-room in the hospital) -- and the very good, the white-light dream that began her recovery from alcoholism. She is believed to have been on lithium therapy for her condition longer than anyone else in the United States.

Author : Adam Alter
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124935
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drunk Tank Pink written by Adam Alter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! A revelatory look at how our environment unconsciously yet dramatically shapes the judgments and decisions we make every day Most of us go through life believing that we are in control of the choices we make—that we think and behave almost independently from the world around us. But as Drunk Tank Pink illustrates, the truth is our environment shapes our thoughts and actions in myriad ways without our permission or even our knowledge. Armed with surprising data and endlessly fascinating examples, Adam Alter addresses the subtle but substantial ways in which outside forces influence us—such as color’s influence on mood, our bias in favor of names with which we identify, and how sunny days can induce optimism as well as aggression. Drunk Tank Pink proves that the truth behind our feelings and actions goes much deeper than the choices we take for granted every day.