African Americans
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Thomas S. Gaines [Gaines, Thomas S.]

CHAPTER VII CUNNING ESCAPES — WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY BANQUET — CONVICT McLOUD KILLED Table of Contents IT seems as if some men were born to a heritage of misery, exposure and ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Kranish

CHAPTER 15 Voyage of the Titans In late June of 1901, a triumphant Taylor arrived in Southampton, England, preparing to board one of the greatest steamships of the day, the ...
( Category: Cycling March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-17 | Author:Tony Kail

Beale Street became known as the boulevard for black America. It became a safe haven for African American Memphians where African American food, music and entertainment could be enjoyed. Rootworkers ...
( Category: Tribal & Ethnic March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anna Mae Duane

Napoleon Francois Charles Joseph. Ink drawing, 1825, by James McCune Smith. New-York Historical Society & Museum, New-York African Free-School Records, vol. 4. CHAPTER 6 Follow the Money, Find the Revolution ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.;

The Emancipation Proclamation did not, however, bring full freedom to the Negro, for although he enjoyed certain political and social opportunities during the Reconstruction, the Negro soon discovered that the ...
( Category: Social Issues March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-17 | Author:Elizabeth Dowling Taylor

BY THE TIME JAMES AND DOLLEY RELOCATED from Philadelphia to Virginia and had four rooms added to his father’s house, she was deeply in love with her husband. Theirs was ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Joe Cox

Parting ways with the Dodgers did not render Sukeforth a home-body. He followed Branch Rickey to Pittsburgh, where he scouted and coached for the Pirates. Demonstrating that his scouting eye ...
( Category: Mid Atlantic March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:William B. Gravely

Chapter 9 No Further Suspense The summations stunned John Popham. He reminded his readers that while the defense presented no witnesses, these orators were all over the place with examples. ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-21 | Author:Taína Caragol

Fig. 15 Sonia Boyce, Lay back, keep quiet and think of what made Britain so great, 1986. Charcoal, pastel, and watercolor on paper, each panel 60 × 25⅝ in. (152.5 ...
( Category: Portraits March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard A. Serrano

All the dreary summer of 1958, Abraham Thomas begged for his life. June 25: “God will look into things,” he wired Eisenhower. “I never have been in no trouble before ...
( Category: African Americans March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-22 | Author:Carter G. Woodson

( Category: African-American Studies March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-07 | Author:Todd M. Michney

Corlett Located immediately south of Mount Pleasant and spanning Harvard Avenue approximately from East 116th Street to 154th Street, Corlett is best understood as a second-tier neighborhood to which many ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:John P. Langellier

Thomas V. Taylor spun a fanciful yarn of royalty and lost love, claiming to be a Zulu prince who enlisted in the United States Army to learn the art of ...
( Category: African Americans March 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-04 | Author:Stephen Drury Smith

Martin Luther King Jr. March 18, 1964 Atlanta, Georgia The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was already the leading voice for nonviolent social change in the civil rights movement when ...
epub |eng | 2015-07-07 | Author:Donald Bogle

THE NIGHTTIME SOAPS: A LITTLE COLOR DOESN’T HURT Of course, placing African American characters in a white cultural context took on a whole other meaning in 1984 with the arrival ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 4,2020 )