The Freedom of the Streets
The Freedom of the Streets

Author: Sharon E. Wood

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2006-03-08

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 0807876534

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Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.

Along Freedom Road
Along Freedom Road

Author: David S. Cecelski

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0807860735

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David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students held nonviolent protests daily for five months, marched twice on the state capitol in Raleigh, and drove the Ku Klux Klan out of the county in a massive gunfight. The threatened closing of Hyde County's black schools collided with a rich and vibrant educational heritage that had helped to sustain the black community since Reconstruction. As other southern school boards routinely closed black schools and displaced their educational leaders, Hyde County blacks began to fear that school desegregation was undermining--rather than enhancing--this legacy. This book, then, is the story of one county's extraordinary struggle for civil rights, but at the same time it explores the fight for civil rights in all of eastern North Carolina and the dismantling of black education throughout the South.

She Stood for Freedom
She Stood for Freedom

Author: Loki Mulholland

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781629721774

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Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.

AKASHVANI
AKASHVANI

Author: Publications Division (India),New Delhi

Publisher: Publications Division (India),New Delhi

Published: 1959-10-04

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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"Akashvani" (English ) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO ,it was formerly known as The Indian Listener.It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists.It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it used to published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" (English ) in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: Akashvani LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 04/10/1959 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 48 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XXIV, No. 40. BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 9-46 ARTICLE: 1.The State Trading Corporation 2.Freedom of the Road 3.The Meaning of Progress AUTHOR: 1.D. Sandilya 2.Prof. Samuel Mathai 3.Prof M. Ratnaswamy KEYWORDS : Raw materials, additional reasons,special problems Awkward side, The greeks, historical wealth,nasser regime Document ID : APE-1959-(J-D)-Vol-II-14 Prasar Bharati Archives has the copyright in all matter published in this and other AIR journals.For reproduction previous permission is essential.

Claudia
Claudia

Author: Britt Holmström

Publisher: Coteau Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781550503951

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Mayhem, murder and mothers - uncover Claudia's secrets and her story from Sweden to Spain to Canada and back. Are these events connected or are they coincidence? Full of fine writing, lovely natural imagery and witty insights, all rendered in the author's cool but evocative prose. Claudia is born in Sweden, to a Latvian mother and an absent, Italian, father. As a teenage girl in Sweden, she and her friends come upon a murdered classmate in a park. Their dispassionate response to this tragedy haunts Claudia for the rest of her life. When Claudia's mother meets and marries a Canadian doctor, they move to Winnipeg with him. She settles into a middle-class life in Canada, and even has a nose job. She reaches her early 20s, and decides on a trip to southern Spain. While there, she bumps into one of her school days circle of friends, who has become a party girl. Days later, Claudia discovers her friend and another woman on the beach, with their throats slit. Claudia and her companions are affected by this, one guy takes to even heavier drinking, another questions his faith in God. Claudia rushes back home to her safe Canadian life. Claudia's mother decides that she wants to return to Latvia, for the first time since she escaped as a war refugee. As they tour around Riga, her mother egresses back to the person she was before she was forced to leave. Claudia and her mother reconnect with family members who still live there, and Claudia arranges to take a troubled young niece back to live with her in Canada. As they are getting ready to return, Claudia's mother dies, and Claudia realizes that her mother never intended to return from the land of her birth. A beautifully written story of life, specifically Claudia's life, it will resonate with women of all ages.