Watch Me Fly

Author : Myrlie Evers-Williams
Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316255202
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watch Me Fly written by Myrlie Evers-Williams and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former chairwoman of the NAACP and widow of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers draws from her own extraordinary life to share inspiration and advice on everything from triumphing over adversity to achieving selfhood.

Author : Dolores Johnson
Publisher : Aladdin
ISBN 13 : 9780689809668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now Let Me Fly written by Dolores Johnson and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family is Dolores Johnson brutal, truthful, and important work depicting history. A young girl describes how she once heard the sound of warning drums in Africa signaling the coming of horror. Kidnapped, made to march while chained, and taken to America to be sold at an auction, she undergoes the brutalities of slavery in this tale of a strong-willed girl who lives in harsh surroundings.

Author : Ronald Wimberly
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 1250290279
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now Let Me Fly written by Ronald Wimberly and published by First Second. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From author Ronald Wimberly, creator of the viral comic Lighten Up, comes a soaring graphic biography that casts new light on the first African-American fighter pilot. On the eve of World War I, Eugene Bullard was a refugee of the Jim Crow South who was determined to find a place where a Black man would be treated as a fellow human being. His search took him from rural Georgia to the streets of Paris, from the vaudeville stage to the boxing ring, and finally, from the muddy trenches to the open skies. In 1914, Bullard joined the fight to defend France—and made history as the world’s first African American fighter pilot. In this candid but sensitive portrait of Bullard, author Ronald Wimberly balances the personal and the historical to interrogate concepts of cynicism, idealism, fear, glory, and the pervasiveness of anti-Black racism.

Author : Julie Quetel
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449055559
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Shayne and His Flying Grandma written by Julie Quetel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shayne's dream of being able to fly is realized after several heartbreaking mishaps. Later he teaches his Grandma and together they embark on an exciting adventure that takes them from the hot Caribbean sunshine to the frigid cold of the North Pole where they encounter danger and excitment along there way. This is a delightful tale for the young and the young at heart that brings the magic of make believe to life.

Author : Joan Boswell
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459707818
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going Out With a Bang written by Joan Boswell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do not go gentle into that good night, wrote Dylan Thomas, and Canadas notorious Ladies Killing Circle has taken his advice to heart. In Going Out With a Bang, the dangerous dames have brought together an explosive mix of authors from across the country. Whether its the boom of drums, the cacophony of a train wreck, or the thud of a body crashing down the stairs, no one goes out without a fight. Twenty authors, along with poet Joy Hewitt Mann, will chill you, entertain you or plain blow you away in this eclectic fictional brew.

Author : Michael Vinson Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286469
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medgar Evers written by Michael Vinson Williams and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sculptor Ed Hamilton presents information on his portrait bust of African-American civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers (1925-1963). Evers was murdered on June 12, 1963. He worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and campaigned to win equal rights for African Americans in the south. The bust was cast in bronze at Bright Foundry in Louisville, Kentucky. General Mills, Inc. commissioned the bust.

Author : Mike McClintock
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0394800036
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fly Went by written by Mike McClintock and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1958-09-12 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fly is followed by a menagerie of characters in this humorous cumulative tale edited by Dr. Seuss. When a young boy sees a frantic fly buzzing past, he asks where the fly is headed—and with that, a chase begins. The fly and the frog, the cat and the dog, the pig and the cow, the fox and the hunter . . . who is causing all the fuss? A Fly Went By will have young readers buzzing with excitement! Originally created by Dr. Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. "The writing is merry and the pictures are real fun. Recommended."--School Library Journal.

Author : Renee C. Romano
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674050428
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racial Reckoning written by Renee C. Romano and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few whites who violently resisted the civil rights struggle were charged with crimes in the 1950s and 1960s. But the tide of a long-deferred justice began to change in 1994, when a Mississippi jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Medgar Evers. Since then, more than one hundred murder cases have been reopened, resulting in more than a dozen trials. But how much did these public trials contribute to a public reckoning with America’s racist past? Racial Reckoning investigates that question, along with the political pressures and cultural forces that compelled the legal system to revisit these decades-old crimes. “[A] timely and significant work...Romano brilliantly demystifies the false binary of villainous white men like Beckwith or Edgar Ray Killen who represent vestiges of a violent racial past with a more enlightened color-blind society...Considering the current partisan and racial divide over the prosecution of police shootings of unarmed black men, this book is a must-read for historians, legal analysts, and journalists interested in understanding the larger meanings of civil rights or racially explosive trials in America.” —Chanelle Rose, American Historical Review

Author : Mike Valla
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811768856
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classic Streamer Fly Box written by Mike Valla and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The dry fly, the wet fly, and the nymph all enjoyed cherished places in an angler’s bag of tricks; but all except the most opinionated will agree that streamer flies and bucktails; when properly selected and employed, hook more and bigger fish more often and in more places than any other type of fly rod lure.” —Joseph D. Bates, Jr. Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing (1966) Streamers, and hair wing versions called bucktails, are versatile patterns that can be fished anywhere whether targeting landlocked salmon on a pristine Rangeley region Maine lake, largemouth bass swimming among the lily pads in a tepid southern farm pond, cutthroat trout inhabiting swift, western rivers or hypercritical browns in the Catskills. In this valuable reference for tiers and anglers alike, author Mike Valla collects here for the reader his favorite classics that are not only important from a historical perspective, but also work well to this day. 100 favorite patterns including Allie’s Favorite Bleeding Shiner Brooks’s Honey Blonde Bumblepuppy Chief Needahbeh Colonel Bates Edson Tiger-Dark Fox’s Yellow Optic Bucktail General MacArthur Goober Jane Craig Missoulian Spook Nine-Three Parma Belle Shushan Postmaster Spruce Supervisor Thunder Creek Silver Shiner Warden’s Worry

Author : Robert E. Case
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481722751
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cobra Combat written by Robert E. Case and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That little voice was screaming in the back of my mind, but there was nothing wrong with the aircraft, so I overrode the warning and concentrated on the inner circle of the gun sight. The soldiers manning the gun pit started to bail out of the trench and beat feet from the impact area, and then it dawned on me. That little voice was not mine, it was a recalled instruction from one of the old heads - NEVER concentrate on the gun sight, always concentrate on the target. I was too low, I was going to auger in to the gun pit at over 354 miles per hour and at that speed they wouldn't even look for the tiny pieces of my remains to ship home.