But Not Jim Crow: Family Memories of African American Loggers of Maxville, Oregon, Paperback - Pearl Alice Marsh

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Miriam ThaggertIllustration(s): 34 black & white photographs, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 240Collectio...

DescriptionIn this memoir, author Alice Nazarian tells the story of her parents and family in the shadow of the Armenian/Assyrian Genocide. Her fat...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World War II, the popular primetime Fox News anch...

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Reducere. While Jackie Robinson is justly famous for breaking the color line in major league baseball in 1947, other young African American players, among th...

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This book explores how the politics of memory and history affected representations of the internment of 120, 000 Japanese Americans during World Wa...

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When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Ken...

Reducere. From the beginning, even before the wagon trains, African Americans have played an essential part in building Oregon. In Marion and Polk counties, ...

In the spring of 1980, Mount St. Helens awoke from a century-long slumber with a series of dramatic changes. Most threatening was a bulge on the si...

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Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

This sequel to "The Woman of the House" and "Across the River" is a story of love for the home place and of the passions and jealousies it can insp...

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerall...

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Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Clarence A. HaynesNumber of pages: 144Collection: True HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 216 x...

Reducere. DescriptionOver forty years and across a variety of media, artist Rick Bartow has created a powerful body of work. His representations of humans, a...

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DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

The systematic misinterpretation of the word of Yah (whom the nations called God) by Christian Preachers, Pastors, Theologians and Rabbis has made ...

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Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether peopl...

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Children's extraordinary memories of previous livesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Dr. Jim B. TuckerNumber of pages: 272Publication d...

A laugh-out-loud story about fighting for your right to steal the show, from the much-loved author of the My Best Friend and Other Enemies series. ...

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In the spring of 1980, Mount St. Helens awoke from a century-long slumber with a series of dramatic changes. Most threatening was a bulge on the si...

Reducere. In 1909, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned ex-President Theodore Roosevelt to collect specimens of African wildlife for the National Museum....

Reducere. Insider's view of Nashville's music scene.

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brooks E. HefnerIllustration(s): 15 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication ...