Taste Of Freedom

Author : Emilye Crosby
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080787681X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Taste of Freedom written by Emilye Crosby and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The legal successes at the national level in the mid 1960s did not end the movement, Crosby contends, but rather emboldened people across the South to initiate waves of new actions around local issues. Escalating assertiveness and demands of African Americans--including the reality of armed self-defense--were critical to ensuring meaningful local change to a remarkably resilient system of white supremacy. In Claiborne County, a highly effective boycott eventually led the Supreme Court to affirm the legality of economic boycotts for political protest. NAACP leader Charles Evers (brother of Medgar) managed to earn seemingly contradictory support from the national NAACP, the segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and white liberals. Studying both black activists and the white opposition, Crosby employs traditional sources and more than 100 oral histories to analyze the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy, and the ways these issues are closely connected to competing histories of the community.

Author : Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 080279470X
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Freedom written by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt, in defiance of British law.

Author : Lisa Phillips
Publisher : Lisa Phillips
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Taste of Freedom written by Lisa Phillips and published by Lisa Phillips. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fight is coming home. For trophy daughter Nora Gladstone, life isn't as perfect as it appears. When her only ally is suspiciously killed the truth of her father's treachery leaks through the cracks of the facade that is her whole world. Zander O'Connell and his team of former soldiers and spies accept a mission from the director of the Department of Clandestine Services. A quick search of the objective before they destroy it reveals a sinister picture. Determined to bring her father down, Nora may be the key to the question at the core of Zander's existence. But when a man thought dead resurfaces, the threat becomes far more dangerous than any of them expected. Unless they survive, this will be their Last Taste of Freedom. Book 1 in the Last Chance County spin-off series featuring Zander and his team of protection specialists. **Christian romantic suspense** Book 1 Last Taste of Freedom Book 2 Last Hour Till Sunrise Book 3 Last One Still Standing Book 4 Last Man To Survive Book 5 Last Line Of Defense

Author : Ming-Min Peng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910736562
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Freedom written by Ming-Min Peng and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peng Ming-min was imprisoned by the Kuomintang regime in Taiwan during the White Terror era for subversion. While he was later under house arrest he evaded his minders and fled to the US, where he led the fight for democracy in his homeland. He returned to stand as a candidate in the first democratic presidential elections in 1996.

Author : Robert Turpin
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815635918
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Taste of Freedom written by Robert Turpin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bicycle has long been a part of American culture but few would describe it as an essential element of American identity in the same way that it is fundamental to European and Asian cultures. Instead, American culture has had a more turbulent relationship with the bicycle. First introduced in the United States in the 1830s, the bicycle reached its height of popularity in the 1890s as it evolved to become a popular form of locomotion for adults. Two decades later, ridership in the United States collapsed. As automobile consumption grew, bicycles were seen as backward and unbecoming—particularly for the white middle class. Turpin chronicles the story of how the bicycle’s image changed dramatically, shedding light on how American consumer patterns are shaped over time. Turpin identifies the creation and development of childhood consumerism as a key factor in the bicycle’s evolution. In an attempt to resurrect dwindling sales, sports marketers reimagined the bicycle as a child’s toy. By the 1950s, it had been firmly established as a symbol of boyhood adolescence, further accelerating the declining number of adult consumers. Tracing the ways in which cycling suffered such a loss in popularity among adults is fundamental to understanding why the United States would be considered a “car” culture from the 1950s to today. As a lens for viewing American history, the story of the bicycle deepens our understanding of our national culture and the forces that influence it.

Author : W. Caleb McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019084700X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sweet Taste of Liberty written by W. Caleb McDaniel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: in 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500. The decision stuck on appeal. More important than the amount, though the largest ever awarded by an American court in restitution for slavery, was the fact that any money was awarded at all. By the time the case was decided, Ward had become a wealthy businessman and a pioneer of convict leasing in the South. Wood's son later became a prominent Chicago lawyer, and she went on to live until 1912. McDaniel's book is an epic tale of a black woman who survived slavery twice and who achieved more than merely a moral victory over one of her oppressors. Above all, Sweet Taste of Liberty is a portrait of an extraordinary individual as well as a searing reminder of the lessons of her story, which establish beyond question the connections between slavery and the prison system that rose in its place.

Author : Daniel R. Biddle
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 159213467X
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tasting Freedom written by Daniel R. Biddle and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.

Author : Jaycee Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501147633
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom written by Jaycee Dugard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Carolyn Quick Tillery
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806523217
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Taste of Freedom written by Carolyn Quick Tillery and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequel to the bestselling "The African-American Heritage Cookbook" interweaves fascinating history with fabulous menus. Includes recipes for the elegant Southern foods for which the Virginia coast is famous. 50 photos & illustrations.

Author : G. Xavier Robillard
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061974706
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain Freedom written by G. Xavier Robillard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom's fifteen minutes are over! Software pirates! Mostly extinct dinosaurs! Giant barbarians! Crooning criminals! Captain Freedom's beat them all, saved the world, and looked fantastic doing it—but he couldn't fend off middle management. The Superhero lifestyle is all that Captain Freedom has ever known. What's he supposed to do now? Enter politics? Write a children's book? Freedom's in a bad way and he's only a stint in rehab away from a lifetime of celebrity reality shows. But with the guidance of his new life coach, maybe Freedom can stumble in a new direction—even if it means having to make peace with his parents . . . or finally commit to a single long-term archenemy.