Young, Black, and Determined
Author: Pat McKissack
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of the black playwright who received great recognition for her work at an early age.
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Young Black Millionaire
Author: Ezedi Souvenir Isaac
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2024-01-10
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBOOK DESCRIPTION "Young Black Millionaire: How To Rise Above The Limitations Of Age, Colour, And Race To Become Successful" is a remarkable journey of one individual who defied the odds and soared to unprecedented heights, transcending the limitations imposed by age, colour, and race. This transformative book serves as a guiding light for those determined to achieve their dreams in a world where barriers often seem insurmountable. Drawing from personal experiences and the wisdom of successful Black entrepreneurs and visionaries, this book is a beacon of hope for young individuals seeking a path to financial independence and influence. It's a testament to the power of determination, resilience, and innovation in the face of adversity. Inside the pages of this book, you'll find: The Power of Vision: Uncover the secrets to creating a clear vision and unwavering determination that can propel you towards your goals, regardless of your age or the colour of your skin. Overcoming Obstacles: Gain a deep understanding of the unique challenges that young Black entrepreneurs often face and learn practical strategies to overcome them. Wealth Building: Discover actionable tips and strategies for creating and managing wealth, irrespective of your background. Networking and Mentorship: Explore the pivotal role of building a supportive network and finding mentors who can guide you on your journey to success. Breaking Stereotypes: Challenge and shatter the stereotypes that may have held you back, embracing your unique qualities as assets on your path to success. "Young Black Millionaire" is a testament to the boundless potential within all of us. It's a blueprint for overcoming adversity and achieving greatness, offering practical advice, inspiring stories, and actionable steps to help you rise above the limitations of age, colour, and race. Whether you're a young entrepreneur with dreams of financial success, an individual looking to break free from societal constraints, or someone seeking to understand and support the journey of a young Black millionaire, this book is an essential read. It's time to rewrite the narrative and empower yourself to reach new heights, just as the author of this remarkable journey has done. Embrace your potential, break those barriers, and unlock your path to success with "Young Black Millionaire."
Negro with a Hat
Author: Colin Grant
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-03-17
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0199839921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century. "A searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garvey's short but consequential life." --Steve Hahn, The New Republic "The story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early '20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant.... Grant's book is not all politics, ideology, money and lawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history.... Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated." --New York Times Book Review "Dazzling, definitive biography of the controversial activist who led the 1920s 'Back to Africa' movement.... Grant's learned passion for his subject shimmers on every page. A riveting and well-wrought volume that places Garvey solidly in the pantheon of important 20th-century black leaders." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This splendid book is certain to become the definitive biography. Garvey was a dreamer and a doer; Grant captures the fascination of both." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Grant's strength lies in his ability to re-create political moods and offer compelling sketches of colorful individuals and their organizations.... An engaging and readable introduction to a complicated and contentious historical actor who, in his time, possessed a unique capacity to inspire devotion and hatred, adulation and fear." --Chicago Tribune "A monumental, nuanced and broadly sympathetic portrait." --Financial Times
The Pulitzer Prize Plays
Author: Paul A. Firestone
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780879103552
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"With this book, Paul Firestone, lifelong educator and theater aficionado, delivers one of the most comprehensive compendiums of essays on these vital works. Firestone's understanding of each play's substance is rich and impressive. His vast and ambitious examination takes into account many different elements-characters, plots, and symbolism, as well as the lives and psychology of the playwrights, the historical context in which the plays emerged, and their relevance on sociological, political, familial, psychological, and spiritual levels.".
The Little gleaner
Author: Septimus Sears
Publisher:
Published: 1854
Total Pages: 646
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
Author: Johnny E. Williams
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1628467231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat role did religion play in sparking the call for civil rights? Was the African American church a motivating force or a calming eddy? The conventional view among scholars of the period is that religion as a source for social activism was marginal, conservative, or pacifying. Not so, argues Johnny E. Williams. Focusing on the state of Arkansas as typical in the role of ecclesiastical activism, his book argues that black religion from the period of slavery through the era of segregation provided theological resources that motivated and sustained preachers and parishioners battling racial oppression. Drawing on interviews, speeches, case studies, literature, sociological surveys, and other sources, Williams persuasively defines the most ardent of civil rights activists in the state as products of church culture. Both religious beliefs and the African American church itself were essential in motivating blacks to act individually and collectively to confront their oppressors in Arkansas and throughout the South. Williams explains how the ideology of the black church roused disparate individuals into a community and how the church established a base for many diverse participants in the civil rights movement. He shows how church life and ecumenical education helped to sustain the protest of people with few resources and little permanent power. Williams argues that the church helped galvanize political action by bringing people together and creating social bonds even when societal conditions made action difficult and often dangerous. The church supplied its members with meanings, beliefs, relationships, and practices that served as resources to create a religious protest message of hope.
Strike the Hammer
Author: Laura Warren Hill
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2021-04-15
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1501754416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the Hammer examines the unrest—rebellion by the city's Black community, rampant police brutality—that would radically change the trajectory of the Civil Rights movement. After overcoming a violent response by State Police, the fight for justice, in an upstate town rooted in black power movements, was reborn. That resurgence owed much to years of organizing and resistance in the community. Laura Warren Hill examines Rochester's long Civil Rights history and, drawing extensively on oral accounts of the northern, urban community, offers rich and detailed stories of the area's protest tradition. Augmenting oral testimonies with records from the NAACP, SCLC, and the local FIGHT, Strike the Hammer paints a compelling picture of the foundations for the movement. Now, especially, this story of struggle for justice and resistance to inequality resonates. Hill leads us to consider the social, political, and economic environment more than fifty years ago and how that founding generation of activists left its mark on present-day Rochester.
Garden Plots
Author: Shelley Saguaro
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780754637530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on a range of twentieth-century texts and including relevant twenty-first century writing, Garden Plots explores the ways in which gardens in fiction represent more than just a familiar theme. Bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues, gardens, like literary forms, are subject to transformations. The term 'plots' is a keyword in this approach. It refers to garden plots, literary plots, and more generally, the plotting that is political, polemical, and subversive. Each of the six chapters includes four texts that are familiar and representative. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Carol Shields, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, and Philip K. Dick.
Associate Justice William O. Douglas
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Special Subcommittee on H. Res. 920
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 936
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America [4 volumes]
Author: Randall M. Miller
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-12-30
Total Pages: 2658
ISBN-13: 0313065365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the discovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized by time period as spelled out in the National Standards for U.S. History, these four volumes effectively analyze the diverse whole of American experience, examining the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of the American people between 1763 and 2005. Working under the editorial direction of general editor Randall M. Miller, professor of history at St. Joseph's University, a group of expert volume editors carefully integrate material drawn from volumes in Greenwood's highly successful Daily Life Through History series with new material researched and written by themselves and other scholars. The four volumes cover the following periods: The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present. Each volume includes a selection of primary documents, a timeline of important events during the period, images illustrating the text, and extensive bibliography of further information resources—both print and electronic—and a detailed subject index.
