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A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross

AS AUGUSTA SAVAGE LEARNED, even with the second wave of federal assistance, many of the intended programs administered by the WPA came up short. Through sheer will and collective action, ...
( Category: Women in History February 27,2020 )
Suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Ellen Carol DuBois

* * * The one hitch in plans for the parade was the question of African American women’s participation. Washington, D.C., once the vibrant national center of African American activism, ...
( Category: Women in History February 27,2020 )
Sovietistan by Erika Fatland
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Erika Fatland

The sun had not yet risen when the older men went out into the blue light of dawn to wash and say their morning prayers. By six o’clock, they were ...
( Category: Women in History February 27,2020 )
Being Heumann by Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
epub, mobi |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner

NOT LONG AFTER, we found out that Denver and New York City had folded. They’d had no personal assistance or accessible bathrooms. Now Califano was going to be even more ...
( Category: Disabled February 26,2020 )
Immigrant Women in Athens by Kennedy Rebecca Futo;
epub |eng | | Author:Kennedy, Rebecca Futo; [Rebecca Futo Kennedy]

Notes 1. Madeline Henry’s attempt to move Aspasia outside of the discourse of prostitution has, sadly, not gained traction among many scholars in part because her final assessment of Aspasia ...
( Category: Women in History February 26,2020 )
Markievicz by Lindie Naughton;
epub |eng | 2018-10-13 | Author:Lindie Naughton;

To Eva Cork Jail. 1 September 1919. Dearest Old Darling, I do hope that you are having the lovely weather over in that most awful country that I am having ...
( Category: Europe February 26,2020 )
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Erik Larson

CHAPTER 58 Our Special Source ENGLAND’S WEATHER DEGRADED. GALES RAKED the landscape and roiled the surrounding seas, making an amphibious landing by German forces seem less and less likely. Fragments ...
( Category: World War II February 26,2020 )
Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, Vol. 1: The Private Years by Charles Capper
epub |eng | | Author:Charles Capper [Charles Capper]

CHAPTER SEVEN .The Schoolmistress (1837-1838) I Margaret Fuller's first impressions of Providence were not especially happy ones. Feeling both sick and a little homesick, she wrote wistfully to Emerson on ...
( Category: Political Parties February 26,2020 )
The Kaiser's Confidante by Richard Jay Hutto
epub |eng | 2017-01-18 | Author:Richard Jay Hutto

The royal visitors arrived the next day in “an elegant state carriage, with servants in grand livery,” and stayed for more than an hour. Mrs. Lee, who did not speak ...
( Category: Women in History February 26,2020 )
Mothers in the Fatherland by Koonz Claudia
epub |eng | | Author:Koonz, Claudia [Claudia Koonz]

The Cardinal closed with "Blessings from the bottom of my heart. May God preserve the Reichs Chancellor for our Voik."24 In Berlin a special high mass commemorated the Concordat. National ...
( Category: Women in History February 26,2020 )
Jackie's Newport by Raymond Sinibaldi
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-05-08 | Author:Raymond Sinibaldi

Jack and Jackie, hand in hand, leave the crowd in Fort Worth to board Air Force I for Dallas. The rigorous day of campaigning brought them closer. Jackie had commented ...
( Category: Women in History February 25,2020 )
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-11-20 | Author:Barbara Ransby [Ransby, Barbara]

Ella Baker understood that the struggles in Louisiana and Alabama represented only the tip of the iceberg of southern racism and injustice and gave only a hint of black people’s ...
( Category: African-American Studies February 24,2020 )
Remembering Shanghai by Claire Chao
epub |eng | 2017-11-13 | Author:Claire Chao

I still have no idea who it was that lost his life that day—a Japanese collaborator? A Communist spy? A merchant who owed protection money to the Green Gang? At ...
( Category: Historical Events February 23,2020 )
Last Days in Babylon by Marina Benjamin
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Marina Benjamin

Throughout the joyless year in which Regina mourned for Elazar, swathing herself in black robes and shunning all social engagements, she had plenty of time to adjust to her new ...
( Category: Women in History February 23,2020 )
Why They Marched by Susan Ware
epub |eng | | Author:Susan Ware

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Mountaineering for Suffrage IN 1909, the Washington Equal Suffrage Association (WESA) published a cookbook with this credo on the frontispiece: “Give us a vote and we will cook ...
( Category: Women in History February 23,2020 )

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