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“stephen drury smith”

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  • After the Fall

    New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed

    Edited by Mary Marshall Clark, Peter Bearman, Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury Smith ...
    New Yorkers remember 9/11 in this landmark volume of oral history commemorating the tenth anniversary of the attacks—A "staggering book of living memory" ( Booklist, starred review).Within days of September 11, 2001, Columbia's Oral History Research Office deployed interviewers across the city to collect the accounts and observations of hundreds of people from a diverse mix of New York ... Read more

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  • Say It Plain

    A Century of Great African American Speeches

    by Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Howard Thurman, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, John Hope Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Joseph Lowery, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Johnetta B. Cole, Lani Guinier, Clarence Thomas, Randall Robinson, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King ...
    A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many never before available ... Read more

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    The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews

    Edited by Stephen Drury Smith, Catherine Ellis ...
    "This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along." —Ralph Ellison, speaking with Robert Penn WarrenA stunning collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorIn 1964, in the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize–winning ... Read more

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  • Say It Loud!

    Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

    by Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury Smith ...
    Following Say It Plain, a collection of speeches that provides "a sweeping perspective on evolving issues of black identity in the struggle for equality" ( Booklist).In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", Say It Plain collected and transcribed speeches by some of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures. Many of the ... Read more

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    The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews

    Edited by Stephen Drury Smith, Catherine Ellis ...
    Featured in the New Yorker's "Page-Turner"**One of Mashable's "17 books every activist should read in 2019""This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along." —Ralph Ellison, speaking with Robert Penn WarrenA stunning collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by the Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

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  • The First Lady of Radio

    Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts

    by Stephen Drury Smith, Blanche Wiesen Cook ...
    "This anthology of 38 addresses . . . offer[s] a means for visiting anew the lifework of an extraordinary American woman" ( HistoryNet).A tie-in to the American RadioWorks® documentary—with audio and video content.Eleanor Roosevelt's groundbreaking career as a professional radio broadcaster is almost entirely forgotten. As First Lady, she hosted a series of prime time programs that ... Read more

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    A new collection of short fiction from the Edgar Award-winning author of Devil in a Blue Dress and Trouble is What I Do.With his extraordinary fiction and gripping television writing, Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accomplished short stories to showcase the full range of his remarkable talent. Touching, ... Read more

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  • Science and the modern world

    Enriched edition. Revisiting the Modern Intersection of Science and Society: A Philosophical Analysis

    by Alfred North Whitehead, Callum Farrowly ...
    In "Science and the Modern World," Alfred North Whitehead presents a profound exploration of the relationship between scientific developments and the philosophical implications that arise within contemporary society. Through a masterful combination of analytic rigor and poetic nuance, Whitehead critiques the mechanistic worldview that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment. He ... Read more

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  • Defining Moments in Black History

    Reading Between the Lies

    by Dick Gregory ...
    NAACP 2017 Image Award WinnerWith his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.A friend of luminaries including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Medgar Evers, and the forebear of today’s popular black comics, including ... Read more

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  • The Black Presidency

    Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

    by Michael Eric Dyson ...
    A provocative and lively examination of the meaning of America's first black presidency, by the New York Times-bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop.Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama's identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race—as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon ... Read more

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  • Inventing English

    A Portable History of the Language

    by Seth Lerer ...
    A history of English from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem, "written with real authority, enthusiasm and love for our unruly and exquisite language" ( The Washington Post).Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Seth Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition of his ... Read more

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  • Allow Me to Retort

    A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

    by Elie Mystal ...
    Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksThe New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal's reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds"After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don't understand—quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer . . ." —Michael Harriot, The RootAllow ... ... Read more

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