Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, Paperback - Rebecca Burns

Reducere. During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place w...

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Atlanta was regarded as the gateway to the new, enlightened and racially progressive South. White busine...

The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and cel...

The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and cel...

Reducere. "The origins of the Chicago race riot of 1919 are to be found, not in high-level policy, but in gut-level animosities between black and white peopl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Scott EllsworthForeword by: John Hope FranklinWhen a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the even...

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...

The press dispatches of October 1, 1919, heralded the news that another race riot had taken place the night before in Elaine, Ark., and that it was...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further reading"Lurid flames roared and belched and licke...

Reducere. Description"Among the cobwebs and faint light that streams through the boards of broken windows, photographer Jeff Hagerman hopes to unravel the se...

From the Native American tribes who first inhabited the land to the gold rush prospectors who flocked to the burgeoning town in the 1860s, Pocatell...

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Reducere. The notorious 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder trial in Los Angeles concluded with the conviction of seventeen young Mexican American men for the allege...

Reducere. Award NameOklahoma Book AwardAward categoryNonfictionThe 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty ...

Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tanya HartNumber of pages: 336Collection: Culture, Labor, HistoryPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. An unprecedented account of one of the bloodiest and most significant racial clashes in American historyIn May 1866, just a year after the Civil Wa...

"You have taken our civil rights--we want our human rights." On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary...

Reducere. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

Reconsidering the power of anger as a positive and necessary tool for achieving spiritual liberation and social change. For many Buddhists, anger i...

Reducere. Originally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heri...

Reducere. In highly-segregated Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, 1921, a white mob attacked the mostly Black neighborhood of Greenwood. Hundreds of people were killed...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): David Paul (Journalist) KuhnNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 233 x 24Co...

DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...

Reducere. The clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book. . . . Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere. . ...

Reducere. About the AuthorCHRISTOPHER McDOUGALL covered wars in Rwanda and Angola as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press before writing his best...

The definitive account of the world-shaping rivalry between Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi and their ongoing competition to be the greatest foo...

Reducere. On the night of September 21, 1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By th...

Reducere. DescriptionJerry's Riot: The True Story of Montana's 1959 Prison Disturbance examines the explosion that resulted when the prison's new reform ward...

From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for th...

The story of the rise of the Inkas and the building of the great city of Machu Picchu is described in this book. The city is as astonishing as were...

Go west, young pioneeryour journey begins here! Inside youll find two books in one: The Race to Chimney Rockand Danger at the Haunted Gate, the fir...

DescriptionCould slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? I...

Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

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

Reducere. In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers--and fortune hunters--than...

Reducere. Coursing through the Atlantic Ocean is a powerful current with a force 300 times that of the mighty Amazon. Ulanski explores the fascinating scienc...

DescriptionMinda is an orphan, taken in by her practical and less-than-enthusiastic Aunt Karin. Minda and her crafty goat, Stor Geta, struggle to f...

A warm and affectionate portrait of a city and a people under lockdown during the Covid-19 crisis, from the award-winning and Sunday Times bestsell...