Mr Smiths Forgotten Community

Author : Marion Cornett
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ISBN 13 : 9781734481501
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Download or read book Mr. Smith's Forgotten Community written by Marion Cornett and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oral Storytelling by past and present residents of the Brighton Gardens Lake Colony, located in Livingston County Michigan.Started in 1919 to present.Early land purchases in Brighton Gardens from 1879 through 1980.Early settlers of Brighton Gardens Lake Colony.History of Brighton Gardens Lake Colony.A man with a vision - Birney Walker Smith, Sr. - searched north of Detroit to purchase land to create, which he often called, the "Promised Land." The year was 1919. By the following year, he owned farm land and an old farmhouse and proceeded to plat eighty acres, just outside of Brighton, Michigan. He called the development Brighton Gardens Lake Colony.His dream was to develop a resort-like setting for prosperous Black African-American professionals to either get away from the big city on the weekends or to set up full-time residences in this rural setting.He, himself, was a professional, working for Wayne County as well as serving as a "caller" at high society soirees, hosted by such notables as the Ford family, J.L. Hudson, and many more. Read the story of how this community came together in the early 1900s in the midst of the "Great Migration" out of the south. And, learn of those settling into this peaceful, nature-enhanced environment, positioned along Lyons Lake, just east of Brighton.

Author : Karen Grandstrand Gervais
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780878407194
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Ethical Challenges in Managed Care written by Karen Grandstrand Gervais and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through twenty case studies that illustrate a wide range of ethical challenges, this book explores the goals, methods, and practices of managed care, and offers practical guidance for addressing the ethical and policy issues inherent in such a system.

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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Systematic Interdisciplinary Approach in Highway Planning and Design written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
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Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Smith
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807737507
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Book of Learning and Forgetting written by Frank Smith and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 1998-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking book, Frank Smith explains how schools and educational authorities systematically obstruct the powerful inherent learning abilities of children, creating handicaps that often persist through life. The author eloquently contrasts a false and fabricated “official theory” that learning is work (used to justify the external control of teachers and students through excessive regulation and massive testing) with a correct but officially suppressed “classic view” that learning is a social process that can occur naturally and continually through collaborative activities. This book will be crucial reading in a time when national authorities continue to blame teachers and students for alleged failures in education. It will help educators and parents to combat sterile attitudes toward teaching and learning and prevent current practices from doing further harm.

Author : J. W. C. Atkinson
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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book The Housing Problem, with Special Reference to E.J. Smith's Bradford Scheme written by J. W. C. Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
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Total Pages : 746 pages
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Download or read book Federal Communications Commission Reports written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis Bromfield
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Total Pages : 223 pages
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Download or read book Mr. Smith written by Louis Bromfield and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. Gloria Stewart Jones
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469117088
Total Pages : 109 pages
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Download or read book Penllyn Village: Lest We Forget written by E. Gloria Stewart Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written especially to honor the residents in a small black community whose time as a totally black community may be ending. . Not all Black Americans have lived in the urban areas of this country; not a better life, but different. It is hoped that any who read this book would see that the hopes, dreams, and life styles of many Black Americans are no different than those of other Americans. This story is about such people. Just beyond the Bethlehem Baptist Church on the corner of Penllyn-Blue Bell Pike and Trewellyn Avenue, in the village of Penllyn, Lower Gwynedd Township, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, rests a predominantly black settlement. The people who founded the church are the same people who established a firm foundation for the community. But there is something more to the church and residents whose presence there dates back 120 years. The author’s purpose is to document their presence before their rich history is swept away by changing demographics. The book’s focus is on the black immigrants from Virginia who were recruited from the farmlands of Westmoreland County, Virginia to those in Gywnedd and surrounding areas in Pennsylvania. There is a brief acknowledgment of the settlement of the Welsh and other Eastern and Southern Europeans, as well as the aristocracy, who came before. Also noted are the ties to the Revolutionary War and structures that could be considered as historic sites still remaining in the village. A review of their southern roots was important to understanding the residents’ success in their new home. They had strong ties to their families and skills already gained back home. Some came to make enough money to send home to buy the farmland back in Virginia that their forefathers had farmed under the yoke of slavery. Some succeeded and returned home. Others remained to find work in the mills, and estates of the wealthy; some were able to start small businesses of their own. Their settlement began with a prayer group of nineteen people that met in a home in Springhouse, PA, in 1885. Told from the perspective of the elders in the community the expanding group had already become a community in faith and spirit if not in residence. In 1888, having outgrown their meeting site they established a church in Penllyn Village, and the first black resident moved into the village. When malicious arson caused that church to burn down, they built another. For the greater part of 120 years the church was their anchor. It is continually illustrated that the early church leadership encouraged them in developing business acumen, political savvy, and artistic talents. Two major land investments established the village as a black community. The first was the purchase of a block of land by young black entrepreneurs in the early 1900s. It was during that time one sees the development of businesses and self-sufficiency that held their community together. The second and most challenging occurred in 1947, when they were able to develop, what is believed to be the first Black corporation in the state of Pennsylvania, in order to buy the Pershing estate. The Penllyn Home builders Association, Inc., sold stock for fifty dollars a share and bought the 40-acre estate. As a result 50 more black owned homes were added to the community. A discussion of their social and recreational activities from the early 1900s on, are what has been observe in American culture throughout that same time span. Simple church picnics, hometown roller rinks, the ice cream parlor, the old swimming hole are typical hometown entertainments of decades past. There is an array of musical talent of an unusual proportion in such a small population, ranging from instrumental, and singing to, contemporary jazz bands. You will note that the residents have never shirked their civic duty. Since the 1930s and 1940s and currently, they have been actively involved in all aspects of the political spectrum from consis

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Total Pages : 414 pages
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