Freedom Of Ones Feet

Author : Thomas Armstrong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0757391710
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Freedom Rider written by Thomas Armstrong and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the segregated Deep South when lynching and Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled, there stood a line of foot soldiers ready to sacrifice their lives for the right to vote, to enter rooms marked "White Only," and to live with simple dignity. They were called Freedom Riders and Thomas M. Armstrong was one of them. This is his story as well as a look ahead at the work still to be done. June, 1961. Thomas M. Armstrong, determined to challenge segregated interstate bus travel in Mississippi, courageously walks into a Trailways bus station waiting room in Jackson. He is promptly arrested for his part in a strategic plan to gain national attention. The crime? Daring to share breathing space marked "Whites Only." Being of African-American descent in the Mississippi Deep South was literally a crime if you overstepped legal or even unspoken cultural bounds in 1961. The consequences of defying entrenched societal codes could result in brutal beatings, displacement, even murder with no recourse for justice in a corrupt political machine, thick with the grease of racial bias. The Freedom Rides were carefully orchestrated and included both black-and-white patriots devoted to the cause of de-segregation. Autobiography of a Freedom Rider details the strategies employed behind the scenes that resulted in a national spectacle of violence so stunning in Alabama and Mississippi that Robert Kennedy called in Federal marshals. Armstrong's burning need to create social change for his fellow black citizens provides the backdrop of this richly woven memoir that traces back to his great-grandparents as freed slaves, examines the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the devastating personal repercussions Armstrong endured for being a champion of those rights, the sweet taste of progressive advancement in the past 50 years, and a look ahead at the work still to be done. Hundreds were arrested for their part in the Freedom Rides, Thomas M. Armstrong amongst them. But it is the authors' quest to give homage to "the true heroes of the civil rights movement . . . the everyday black Southerners who confronted the laws of segregation under which they lived . . . the tens of thousands of us who took a chance with our lives when we decided that no longer would we accept the legacy of exclusion that had robbed our ancestors of hope and faith in a just society."

Author : Ilya Somin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190054603
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free to Move written by Ilya Somin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual voters have little chance of making a difference, and they face strong incentives to remain ignorant about the issues at stake. "Voting with your feet," however, avoids both these pitfalls and offers a wider range of choices. In Free to Move, Ilya Somin explains how broadening opportunities for foot voting can greatly enhance political liberty for millions of people around the world. People can vote with their feet through international migration, choosing where to live within a federal system, and by making decisions in the private sector. Somin addresses a variety of common objections to expanded migration rights, including claims that the "self-determination" of natives requires giving them the power to exclude migrants, and arguments that migration is likely to have harmful side effects, such as undermining political institutions, overburdening the welfare state, increasing crime and terrorism, and spreading undesirable cultural values. While these objections are usually directed at international migration, Somin shows how a consistent commitment to such theories would also justify severe restrictions on domestic freedom of movement. By making a systematic case for a more open world, Free to Move challenges conventional wisdom on both the left and the right. This revised and expanded edition addresses key new issues, including fears that migration could spread dangerous diseases, such as Covid-19, claims that immigrants might generate a political backlash that threatens democracy, and the impact of remote work.

Author : Josef M. Bauer
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1780332866
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me written by Josef M. Bauer and published by Constable. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1955, this must be one of the most dramatic adventures of our time. Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after the Second World War. Rebelling against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape, enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of Siberia, in some of the most treacherous and inhospitable conditions on earth. Bauer's writing brilliantly evokes Forell's desperation in the prison camp, and his struggle for survival and terror of recapture as he makes his way towards the Persian frontier and freedom.

Author : Sehdev Kumar
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532064780
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 7,000 Million Degrees of Freedom written by Sehdev Kumar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal meditations on the wondrous and exalted idea of Freedom in all its rich and varied fecundity. Now with over 7,000 million of us on this earth, what could freedom possibly mean for us as earthlings, and as dreaming creatures always asking at every bend in the road about the meaning and purpose of our lives, and the yearning to cut the rope and be free? Freedom is at the heart of creation; these beautifully expressed thoughts on the meaning of freedom in our intricate and challenging world by an original and provocative thinker, are a delight to read. –Dr. Khalid Sohail, Psychotherapist & Poet, Canada In the company of great thinkers, philosophers and poets of all ages, and honed by the testimony of all that is good and evil in mankind, Sehdev Kumar has presented before us a resounding YES to the centuries-old question: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” –Dr. Máximo Barón. Plenary Professor of Physics and Epistemology Universidad de Belgrano. Buenos Aires. Argentina

Author : Charles Carleton Coffin
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027304962
Total Pages : 2113 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Triumph of Freedom: The Essential Works of Charles Carleton Coffin (Illustrated Edition) written by Charles Carleton Coffin and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 2113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook collection of Charles Coffin's works is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Seat of Empire The Story of Liberty Old Times in the Colonies My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times: 1769–1776 The Boys of '61 Following the Flag Winning His Way The Life of Charles Carleton Coffin

Author : John Daniels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Freedom's Birthplace written by John Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emily Mofield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000492982
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finding Freedom written by Emily Mofield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Freedom invites students to follow America's journey toward finding freedom by examining multiple perspectives, conflicts, ideas, and challenges through seminal historical texts. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth and aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), features close readings of some of the most famous American political speeches from notable Americans, presidents, and minority voices. To sharpen historical thinking, students analyze arguments for freedom, examine dissenting perspectives, and reason through multiple viewpoints of historical issues through debates and interactive activities. To develop advanced literacy skills, students evaluate effective rhetorical appeals, claims, supporting evidence, and techniques that advance arguments. Students synthesize their learning by comparing speeches to each other, relating texts to contemporary issues of today, and making interdisciplinary connections. Lessons include close readings with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative assessments, social studies content connections, and ELA tasks that require argument and explanatory writing. Ideal for pre-AP and honors courses, the unit features speeches from Patrick Henry, Frederick Douglass, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lincoln, Kennedy, Johnson, George W. Bush, Obama, and others. Grades 6-8

Author : Edward M. Bender
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438960735
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lest They Forget Freedom's Price written by Edward M. Bender and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lest They Forget Freedom's Price," is the fascinating story of B-17 bomber pilot Edward M. Bender (USAAFR retired Lt. Col.), who describes his flight training, bomber missions, capture, and time as a POW in Europe during World War II. When a fire forces the crew of his Flying Fortress down in enemy-occupied France, Lt. Bender is captured by a unit of teenage NAZI recruits from Adolph Hitler's youth corps. He describes his year as a prisoner of the Third Reich at camps in Sagan, Nurnberg, and Moosburg, and the bitterly cold forced march of Winter 1945, when the Germans and POWs evacuated the Stalag Luft III prison camp in anticipation of the advancing Russian army. Finally, Lt. Bender is liberated by Gen. George Patton's army and returns home to adapt to the challenges of life in post-war America. Filled with humor and pathos, this narrative provides a portrait of life in war-time Europe and America, and the challenges faced by an American airman and POW.

Author : Robert A. Wicklund
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040144691
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Reactance written by Robert A. Wicklund and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brehm’s theory of psychological reactance in 1966 marked the beginning of a psychological investigation into the consequences of losing freedom. The concept “freedom” had been touched upon intermittently by disciplines such as political science and philosophy, and even on occasion by psychology, but Brehm’s treatment had been the first analysis of freedom to spark experimental investigations into the variety of reactions to infringements on freedom. Originally published in 1974, Freedom and Reactance was written to capture the many directions taken by the theory since 1966, and to integrate reactance theory with theoretical ideas that applied to some of the same phenomena. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Author : Unita Blackwell
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barefootin' written by Unita Blackwell and published by Crown. This book was released on 2006 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Civil Rights movement's most memorable voices tells the inspirational story of her remarkable life as she journeyed from sharecropper to activist, sharing the lessons she learned along the road.