Reducere. DescriptionLeroy "Satchel" Paige was a man of many words--boastful, brash, bitter, wise. Maybe I'll Pitch Forever is Paige's story in his own words...
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Reducere. Satchel Paige was forty-two years old in 1948 when he became the first black pitcher in the American League. Although the oldest rookie around, he ...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jim PiersallAuthor: Al Hirshberg"Jim Piersall, 22 year old outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, had a mental breakdown in 195...
Reducere. Tells the story of one of the most important strikes in labour history, that of the Bryant and May matchmakers in 1888. 1400 women and girls walked...
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Reducere. The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in educatio...
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Reducere. DescriptionEllie the elephant loves to have fun in the bath, but she's not the only one. Her fun is interrupted when a crocodile decides to join he...
Reducere. DescriptionFrom her unique vantage point in New Orleans, Sybil Haydel Morial's life spans one of the most critical periods in our country's history...
Reducere. "Inspiring reading for aspiring journalists and students of civil rights." -- Kirkus Reviews Wanda Smalls Lloyd's Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow...
Reducere. DescriptionA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past decade, " according to the Chronicl...
Reducere. John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to give his eyewitness account of "The Manhattan Project." This was the name he and a group of fellow stu...
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Reducere. In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial ...
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Reducere. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, R...
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Reducere. "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy ...
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Reducere. Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Eduction' Literary Hub, Bo...
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Reducere. DescriptionBefore Opie lived in Mayberry, Beaver and Wally in Mayfield, and Betty, Bud and Kathy in Springfield, there were thousands of little Bla...
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Reducere. This anthology of drama, essays, fiction, and poetry presents a thoughtful, classroom-tested selection of the best literature for learning about th...
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Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...
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Reducere. From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and ...
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