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With God’S Blessing

The Family Legacy of Irving and Jane Smith

by Irving R. Smith Sr., Jane R.G Smith ...

The Smith Family's tradition on Sundays was to sit around the dining room table after dinner and hear Daddy and Momma talk about old times. You see, they were African Americans born in Staunton, VA in 1916 and 1918 during difficult times. But they expected that God would make a way! They had so many stories. Sometimes we had a good laugh, many times we would cry and yet other times it was almost ... Read more

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The Smith Family's tradition on Sundays was to sit around the dining room table after dinner and hear Daddy and Momma talk about old times. You see, they were African Americans born in Staunton, VA in 1916 and 1918 during difficult times. But they expected that God would make a way! They had so many stories. Sometimes we had a good laugh, many times we would cry and yet other times it was almost
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Buses Are a Comin'

Memoir of a Freedom Rider

by Charles Person, Richard Rooker ...

A teenager's firsthand account of the 1961 Freedom Rides, a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement, and a resounding call to action for today's youth.At 18, Charles Person became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, a group of black and white activists who boarded buses to challenge segregation in the American South. Alongside future icons like John Lewis and James Farmer, Person ... Read more

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A teenager's firsthand account of the 1961 Freedom Rides, a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement, and a resounding call to action for today's youth.At 18, Charles Person became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, a group of black and white activists who boarded buses to challenge segregation in the American South. Alongside future icons like John Lewis and James Farmer, Person
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Generations

A Memoir

by Lucille Clifton ...

A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa.Buffalo, New York. A father’s funeral. Memory.In Generations, Lucille Clifton’s formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family: ... Read more

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A moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa.Buffalo, New York. A father’s funeral. Memory.In Generations, Lucille Clifton’s formidable poetic gift emerges in prose, giving us a memoir of stark and profound beauty. Her story focuses on the lives of the Sayles family:
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The Broken Past

A James Buckner Mystery

by Christopher C. Gibbs ...

A murder mystery quietly unfolds during a seemingly peaceful morning in Corinth, Missouri in 1923. Police Chief James Buckner is called away from his office to investigate the death of a prominent local businessman whose lifeless body has just been found. Several miles away, a black man is discovered lynched and in his pocket is a warning from the Ku Klux Klan.The Roaring 20s is a time when racial ... Read more

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A murder mystery quietly unfolds during a seemingly peaceful morning in Corinth, Missouri in 1923. Police Chief James Buckner is called away from his office to investigate the death of a prominent local businessman whose lifeless body has just been found. Several miles away, a black man is discovered lynched and in his pocket is a warning from the Ku Klux Klan.The Roaring 20s is a time when racial
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The Man Behind The Brand - Road Food

by Doug Gelbert ...

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let's look at the men behind the names where we pull off the road to eat. ... Read more

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Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Maytag, Kellogg. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let's look at the men behind the names where we pull off the road to eat.
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The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages

A 100 Year Documentary

by James O. McHenry ED.D ...

This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast Louisiana, those folk who were reared in the rural areas, villages, and small towns; who worked on the ... Read more

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This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast Louisiana, those folk who were reared in the rural areas, villages, and small towns; who worked on the
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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth

And Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina

by Ron Rash ...

Series series Southern Revivals
Short stories of hardscrabble lives in the Carolina foothills, sharing anew the early fiction from an acclaimed storytellerThe Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentieth anniversary edition takes us back to where it all began with ten linked short stories, framed like a novel, introducing us to a ... Read more

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Short stories of hardscrabble lives in the Carolina foothills, sharing anew the early fiction from an acclaimed storytellerThe Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentieth anniversary edition takes us back to where it all began with ten linked short stories, framed like a novel, introducing us to a
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Monroeville

The Search for Harper Lee's Maycomb

by Monroe County Heritage Museums ...

Series series Images of America
For 39 years, people from all over the world and all walks of life have come to the small town of Monroeville, Alabama, in search of a place called Maycomb. They come in search of a story that have moved millions of people with its enduring message, and in search of the world of the storyteller. Monroeville: The Search for Harper Lee�s Maycomb explores the relationship between Harper Lee�s ... Read more

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For 39 years, people from all over the world and all walks of life have come to the small town of Monroeville, Alabama, in search of a place called Maycomb. They come in search of a story that have moved millions of people with its enduring message, and in search of the world of the storyteller. Monroeville: The Search for Harper Lee�s Maycomb explores the relationship between Harper Lee�s
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A Boy from Georgia

Coming of Age in the Segregated South

by Hamilton Jordan ...

"The story of a young man waking to the fact that his family is on the wrong side of history."— Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWhen Hamilton Jordan died in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir. His daughter, Kathleen—with the help of her brothers and mother—took up the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from Georgia—the result of this posthumous father-daughter collaboration ... Read more

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"The story of a young man waking to the fact that his family is on the wrong side of history."— Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionWhen Hamilton Jordan died in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir. His daughter, Kathleen—with the help of her brothers and mother—took up the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from Georgia—the result of this posthumous father-daughter collaboration
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Haunted Central Georgia

by Jim Miles ...

Series series Haunted America
The author of Georgia's Civil War ghost books proves that the Peach State's phantoms come in many forms.Every portion of central Georgia is thoroughly haunted. Tobe, the ghost of Orna Villa in Oxford, had an appetite for biscuits. Angry spirits near Augusta drove a family from a beautiful old home. Paranormal entities in a home cobbled together from three old houses created a tapestry of ... Read more

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The author of Georgia's Civil War ghost books proves that the Peach State's phantoms come in many forms.Every portion of central Georgia is thoroughly haunted. Tobe, the ghost of Orna Villa in Oxford, had an appetite for biscuits. Angry spirits near Augusta drove a family from a beautiful old home. Paranormal entities in a home cobbled together from three old houses created a tapestry of
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All Joe Knight

A Novel

by Kevin Morris ...

"Kevin Morris goes for a slam dunk in his debut novel" about the undoing of an American Dreamer in the Philly suburbs ( Vanity Fair Hot Type).Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be father runs into a telephone pole while driving drunk; nine months later, his widow dies in a smashed-up T-Bird. From the start, the orphaned Joe Knight is a blank slate. Taken in by a kindly aunt in a tough-skinned suburb, ... Read more

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"Kevin Morris goes for a slam dunk in his debut novel" about the undoing of an American Dreamer in the Philly suburbs ( Vanity Fair Hot Type).Outside Philadelphia, a soon-to-be father runs into a telephone pole while driving drunk; nine months later, his widow dies in a smashed-up T-Bird. From the start, the orphaned Joe Knight is a blank slate. Taken in by a kindly aunt in a tough-skinned suburb,
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That's the Way It Was

Stories of Struggle, Survival and Self-Respect in Twentieth-Century Black St. Louis

by Vida Goldman Prince ...

13 Black Americans share their everyday experiences with racism in twentieth-century St. Louis.Segregation was a way of life in St. Louis, aptly called "the most southern city in the North." These thirteen oral histories describe the daily struggle that pervasive racism demanded but also share the tradition of self-respect that the African-American community of St. Louis sought to build on its own ... Read more

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13 Black Americans share their everyday experiences with racism in twentieth-century St. Louis.Segregation was a way of life in St. Louis, aptly called "the most southern city in the North." These thirteen oral histories describe the daily struggle that pervasive racism demanded but also share the tradition of self-respect that the African-American community of St. Louis sought to build on its own
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