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Wanderings - Chaim Potok's History Of The Jews by Chaim Potok
epub |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Chaim Potok

By the end of the second century B.C.E. the Roman republic had been in existence about four hundred years. Its victories had gained it the awe, fear, and admiration of ...
( Category: World September 8,2017 )
Prisoner 1082 by Donal Donnelly
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-08 | Author:Donal Donnelly [Donnelly, Dónal]

9 PLANNING THE BREAKOUT Keeping an Eye on the Outside Our time in Crumlin was brightened by news of the Curragh breakout in December 1958 and the subsequent escape by ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 8,2017 )
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief by Mason Bill & Gruenfeld Lee
mobi |eng | 2005-04-12 | Author:Mason, Bill & Gruenfeld, Lee [Mason, Bill]

Cheryl was a good person and a good friend. So my heart—and I wouldn’t have thought it possible—sank even further when I saw the hard, all-business look in her eyes. ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 8,2017 )
American Hunger by Richard Wright
epub |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Richard Wright [Wright, Richard]

In my party work I met a Negro Communist, Ross, who was under indictment for “inciting to riot.” I decided to use him in my series of biographical sketches. His ...
( Category: Ethnic & National September 8,2017 )
Journey across the Four Seas: A Chinese Woman's Search for Home by Li Veronica
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-15 | Author:Li, Veronica [Li, Veronica]

TAPE SIX GOING HOME 1 Baba was right to caution against traveling too soon. Fighting with remnant enemy troops was still going on in some places. In others where the ...
( Category: Historical September 8,2017 )
Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Marcus Samuelsson [Samuelsson, Marcus]

IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, I could see that Georges Blanc owned the town of Vonnas. Almost literally. He had bought up much of the real estate on the town square and, ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 7,2017 )
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
epub |eng | 2010-08-18 | Author:Ron Suskind [Suskind, Ron]

In room 216 of East Andrews Hall, being alone in the room means the automatic granting of “music control.” As agreed upon and enacted on the last day of September, ...
( Category: Sociology September 7,2017 )
Cuz by Danielle Allen
epub |eng | | Author:Danielle Allen

20. THE BIGGEST WILDFIRE IN CALIFORNIA HISTORY All work and no play makes Jill a dull girl, but this has always been my way. As June heated up into July, ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 7,2017 )
Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Margo Jefferson [Jefferson, Margo]

THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK, More deliberate. CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Solemnly chanted. “Be careful what you do, All the o sounds ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 6,2017 )
Australians by Thomas Keneally
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-01 | Author:Thomas Keneally

CHAPTER 14 * ARRIVING AT THE END OF THINGS A convict arriving in Sydney or Hobart in the early to mid 1830s encountered prosperous-looking communities where women and men of ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania September 6,2017 )
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J. Garrow
mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:David J. Garrow

8. Chicago and the “War on Slums,” 1965–1966 Civil rights activism in Chicago had traveled a fitful path in the years preceding Martin King’s exploration of the city in July, ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 5,2017 )
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
mobi |eng | 2007-04-04 | Author:Taylor Branch

IV Passion CHAPTER 33 Spy Visions December 1966–February 1967 POLITICAL passions tested democracy’s institutional core. In Bond v. Floyd, the Supreme Court weighed the argument by Georgia that criticisms of ...
( Category: Historical September 5,2017 )
I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters by Bayard Rustin
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Bayard Rustin

Rustin to A. Philip Randolph and Others After drafting the proposal for a march on Washington, Rustin returned to Dar Es Salaam in February to carry out more work for ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Daniel Levine
mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-04 | Author:Daniel Levine

Freedom Summer, which became one origin of the split, actually had its beginning in the summer of 1963. SNCC had for some time been working at a voter registration campaign ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 5,2017 )
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio
mobi |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:John D'Emilio

CHAPTER FOURTEEN “Ours Is Not a World-Shaking Project” 1960-1962 DEVASTATING AS THE BREAK with King was, Rustin’s situation was very different from what he had confronted after Pasadena. This time ...
( Category: African-American Studies September 5,2017 )

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