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Booker T. Washington : the wizard of Tuskegee 1901-1915 by Harlan Louis R
epub |eng | 1986-03-23 | Author:Harlan, Louis R

274 Booker T. Washington land, the Lumbwa Industrial Mission in Kenya, and industrial institutes in the Gold Coast and Nigeria, as well as an experimental African Training Institute at Colwyn ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 23,2019 )
Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity by Tyrone Tillery
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Tyrone Tillery [Tillery, Tyrone]

McKay was especially outraged that his poems had been published in the same publication that had castigated his Home to Harlem. As Claude vehemently put it, "I particularly resent the ...
( Category: Movements & Periods March 23,2019 )
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It by Tom Phelan
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Phelan

23 TYRANNY OF THE IRISH WEATHER The weather exercised a tyranny over Dad’s farming life, creating alternating periods of crisis and calm, and sometimes days of frantic intensity. The daily ...
( Category: Irish March 16,2019 )
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden
epub |eng | | Author:T Kira Madden

Josh likes to take us drag racing at night. The three of us are so drunk in the backseat, we barely ever look at his speedometer the way he would ...
( Category: LGBT March 15,2019 )
The Back Channel by William J. Burns
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:William J. Burns

For most of the Russian elite, still intoxicated by an unexpectedly rapid revival of Great Power status, the world around them is full of tactical opportunities. America is distracted and ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 12,2019 )
Being Chinese in Canada by William Ging Wee Dere
epub |eng | 2019-03-01 | Author:William Ging Wee Dere

* * * Despite all the support, the CCNC’s work on the redress campaign was interrupted following the clampdown of student protests in Tiananmen Square182 in Beijing, June 1989. The ...
( Category: Chinese March 8,2019 )
On the Run in Nazi Berlin by Bert Lewyn
epub |eng | 2019-03-07 | Author:Bert Lewyn

16 Damn Yankee I SPENT THE NEXT DAY, like many other days, wandering the streets of Berlin. I noticed my shoes were beginning to wear out, which didn’t surprise me. ...
( Category: Jewish March 8,2019 )
Just Another Nigger by Cox Don; Marshall Kimberly Cox; Wasserman Steve
epub |eng | | Author:Cox, Don; Marshall, Kimberly Cox; Wasserman, Steve

9 The Big Apple NEW YORK, NEW YORK—the Big Apple. I thought it was a wild place, but it had a magnetic effect upon me. Coming from a place as ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 7,2019 )
The Art of Dying Well by Katy Butler
epub |eng | | Author:Katy Butler

NEXT STEPS If you are nervous about hospice, I suggest beginning with an “informational meeting” or an “evaluation intake appointment.” Think of yourself as conducting research, and separate that from ...
( Category: Green Housecleaning March 5,2019 )
My Dear Boy by Joanie Holzer Schirm
epub |eng | | Author:Joanie Holzer Schirm

I didn’t think I would hear back from the author, but a month later he answered. Agreeing to be a source, I typed a five-page response, attempting to share pertinent ...
( Category: Jewish March 2,2019 )
Deep Creek by Pam Houston
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Pam Houston

Ranch Almanac: Lambing My shearer, Tom Barr, says Icelandics are the toughest sheep he shears, the strongest and the most unruly, but since they’re the only sheep I’ve had, I ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 27,2019 )
Conceivability: What I Learned Exploring the Frontiers of Fertility by Elizabeth Katkin
epub |eng | 2018-06-19 | Author:Elizabeth Katkin [Katkin, Elizabeth]

Selecting Sperm When Claire and her partner, Daphne, decided to have a baby, they knew that their first step would be selecting a sperm bank. Comfortable with the idea of ...
( Category: Ethnic & National February 18,2019 )
Up from Slavery: an autobiography by Booker T. Washington
epub |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:Booker T. Washington [Washington, Booker T.]

Chapter XI. Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them A little later in the history of the school we had a visit from General J.F.B. Marshall, the Treasurer ...
( Category: Ethnic & National February 13,2019 )
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass by Douglass Frederick
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Douglass, Frederick

Chapter 11 Secession and War The cowardly and disgraceful reaction from a courageous and manly assertion of right principles, as described in the foregoing pages, continued surprisingly long after secession ...
( Category: Historical February 8,2019 )
Daughter of Heaven by Leslie Li
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-02-04 | Author:Leslie Li

I sensed Dashao’s presence, felt her tap me on the shoulder. I rolled over in bed, opened my eyes, switched on the lamp. She placed the pen on the night ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics February 6,2019 )

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