mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Eric Foner

7 “Forever Free”: The Coming of Emancipation EVEN AS THE ARMY of General George B. McClellan embarked on the Peninsular campaign, a military commander with a very different political outlook ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-08-15 | Author:Malcolm X; Alex Haley

M CHAPTER FOURTEEN BLACK MUSLIMS In the spring of nineteen fifty-nine-some months before Brother Johnson Hinton's case had awakened the Harlem black ghetto to us-a Negro journalist, Louis Lomax, then ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Wes Moore

As I sat on the other end of the line, listening to my mother talk about “sacrifice,” I had no idea what my grandparents had given up. The five minutes ...

mobi |eng | 2005-01-30 | Author:Frederick Douglass; Brent Hayes Edwards

Kbb CHAPTER XVIII. NEW RELATIONS AND DUTIES CHANGE OF MASTERS—BENEFITS DERIVED BY THE CHANGE—FAME OF THE FIGHT WITH COVEY—RECKLESS UNCONCERN—AUTHOR’S ABHORRENCE OF SLAVERY—ABILITY TO READ A CAUSE OF PREJUDICE—THE HOLIDAYS—How ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-09 | Author:Barack Obama

Ten days later, Auma and I sat in the hard plastic seats of an airport terminal, looking out at the planes through the high wall of glass. I asked her ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:McGill, Jerry [McGill, Jerry]

INT. HOSPITAL ROOM—DAY JEROME sits up in his wheelchair in front of a canvas. He is painting. He wears a splint on his right wrist and a paintbrush has been ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Helena Andrews

Nine HELENA ANDREWS HAS THE BEST PUSSY IN THE WORLD ABORTION MONKEY? Who wouldn’t open that e-mail? It was the winter of 2004, and my virtual load of junk mail ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-12 | Author:Governor Deval Patrick

Over the years, we’ve opened our doors to these and many other people who were hungry for company, attention, and affection. Growing up, I know that I too longed for ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-22 | Author:Manning Marable

Home from Detroit the morning of April 13, Malcolm barely had time to bid his wife and followers good-bye before catching a flight to Cairo that evening. He flew under ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-07 | Author:Maya Angelou

Power of the Word Many things continue to amaze me, even well into the sixth decade of my life. I’m startled or taken aback when people walk up to me ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Howard Bryant

BY PURE HAPPENSTANCE, it was Jackie Robinson who indirectly wound up being responsible for Henry’s half century of loyalty to the Democratic party. For years, Henry had sought to pattern ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Andrea Stuart

11 The history of liberty is a history of resistance. —WOODROW WILSON WHILE THE ISLANDERS strove to further consolidate their sugar empire, the outside world was once again nipping at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Anita Hill

Within the first hour of my appearance before the committee I was asked to repeat details of experiences which I had already forced myself to describe first to Metzenbaum and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-27 | Author:Rideau, Wilbert [Rideau, Wilbert]

9 Soldiering On 1986—1990 Which is worse: death by execution or spending the rest of your life in prison? That was a question I was asked to answer on July ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-07-13 | Author:Frederick Douglass

CHAPTER IX I HAVE NOW REACHED a period of my life when I can give dates. I left Baltimore, and went to live with Master Thomas Auld, at St. Michael‘s, ...