A City Within a City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Paperback - Todd E. Robinson

Reducere. 'A City Within a City' is a case study of the civil rights era as it happened in smaller cities, focusing specifically on the struggles involving s...

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Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle f...

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The Black Widows of the Eternal City offers, for the first time, a book-length study of an infamous cause c l bre in seventeenth-century Rome, how ...

Reducere. Examines the history of James City, a black community located near New Bern. Established in 1863 as a camp for destitute former slaves, James City ...

DescriptionA change is taking place all across the country and especially on the West Coast, a shift led by the younger generations. People who in ...

Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President Obama's inauguration...

Reducere. DescriptionWHEN YOU LIVE FROM THE LOVE WITHIN, TRUE FREEDOM REVEALS ITSELF Chris is a horseman, spending his days helping people and their horses t...

I See a City: Todd Webb's New York focuses on the work photographer Todd Webb produced in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. Webb photographed t...

Reducere. One hundred-sixty-five years ago the Boardman River emptied its waters into the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay amid a vast forest of white pines, r...

Unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutio...

Reducere. The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement. A record of one o...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1898, Wilmington, North Carolina was the scene of what many describe as the only successful coup d' etat in the history of the United...

Reducere. In 1966, members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an African American civil rights group with Southern roots, joined Cesar Chavez ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vincent HardingFrom an unflinchingly black perspective, Harding writes of the struggle of heroic African americans to achie...

Publisher: Black Dog PressIllustration(s): 70 illustrations; 70 illustrationsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 288 x 238 x 21Co...

Can a bold investment in education turn around the economy of an entire city? Gene I. Maeroff, former national education correspondent for the New ...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Susan CahillIllustration(s): Includes 25 color photographs throughoutNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Tatchell takes us on a tour of the city with an outlook that s part native, part critic, part wide-eyed traveler. The result is a truly original co...

Reducere. In this lively and deeply affecting memoir, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York as only a stunned newcomer can: in overheard conver...

To understand current sociopolitical dynamics on a planetary level, we need to have two mental maps in mind: the state-centered map and the nonstat...

The West End musicals, Ronnie Scott's jazz club, Abbey Road, mod culture, the Kinks, the Who and the Rolling Stones are just as much a part of Lond...

Reducere. DESCRIPTION This unique volume contains twenty-eight fascinating life stories of people -- many of whom went on to become famous -- who grew up in ...

This book is a celebration of the colossal grandeur and the dynamic drive of New York City. It is a personal testimony that the heart of this city ...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestsellerA five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pion...

Reducere. Comprising six sections of collected wisdom sayings, the book of Proverbs is a challenging read. Many of the sayings are attributed to King Solomon...

Reducere. In personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting, an award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders.To...

Reducere. Now, more than ever, people all over the planet are waking up to their true spiritual nature, choosing to live lives of love over fear. But having ...

Reducere. George Washington is remembered for leading the Continental Army to victory, presiding over the Constitution, and forging a new nation, but few kno...

Photographs by Reynaldo Rivera that document a vanished LA of cheap rent, house parties, subversive fashion, and underground bands, and long-closed...

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

From New York Times bestselling author E. Lockhart (Genuine Fraud, We Were Liars) and artist Manuel Preitano (The Oracle Code) comes a new Gotham C...

Reducere. About the AuthorLeo F. Goodstadt is an honorary fellow of the University of Hong Kong. He was head of the Hong Kong government's Central Policy Uni...

Reducere. The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestsellerA five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pion...

Research chemist-sleuth Libby Clark must uncover the traitor within in this gripping World War II mystery. May 1945. Harry S. Truman has become pre...

Reducere. DescriptionAlthough Emmi has lived in Chicago for two years, she finds it hard to love her adopted city. As a German immigrant in the early 1870s, ...

Reducere. "Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search fo...

Reducere. The final amen is death Audrey Davis's final prayer is murder.Young, affable, and comfortable in his Kansas City surroundings, Doug Nolan's world i...

DescriptionThe Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2, 600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In th...

Wayne Jenkins and his team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - were the city's lauded and decorated heroes.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen PuleoBetween 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis from an insulated New England town into one o...

Reducere. This book is about the contradictions and infighting that occurred in the Zimbabwe liberation movement from 1957 to independence in 1980. The focus...

Reducere. DescriptionPimps, prostitutes, safe crackers, murderers, drug addicts, thieves and thugs--and of course, the Portland Police Bureau--Don DuPay intr...

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For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes, working t...

Reducere. Anti-black racism still infects American society. African Americans are more likely than whites to be killed by police, to be pulled over, arrested...

Reducere. In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child D...