When the Supreme Court overturned school segregation in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the issue was joined for the South and the nation.
Montgomery, Alabama, 1955--the civil rights movement has begun. The authors build a narrative from the words of the people, their photographs and their songs to form an emphasis on triumph in an uncertain age. Photos and music.
Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three specific cities as case studies - Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, and York, Pennsylvania - Levy demonstrates the impact which these uprisings had on millions of ordinary Americans. He shows how conservatives profited politically by constructing a misleading narrative of their causes, and also suggests that the riots did not represent a sharp break or rupture from the civil rights movement. Finally, Levy presents a cautionary tale by challenging us to consider if the conditions that produced this 'Great Uprising' are still predominant in American culture today.
In this expanded edition of the 2017 mega-bestseller, updated with brand new sections like DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY, SUGAR COATED LIES and DON'T NEGOTIATE WITH WEAKNESS, readers will discover new ways to become stronger, smarter, and healthier. Jocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special operations unit of the war in Iraq. In Discipline Equals Freedom, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Extreme Ownership describes how he lives that mantra: the mental and physical disciplines he imposes on himself in order to achieve freedom in all aspects of life. Many books offer advice on how to overcome obstacles and reach your goals--but that advice often misses the most critical ingredient: discipline. Without discipline, there will be no real progress. Discipline Equals Freedom covers it all, including strategies and tactics for conquering weakness, procrastination, and fear, and specific physical training presented in workouts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes, and even the best sleep habits and food intake recommended to optimize performance. FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE--AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOM
A lively account includes the grand themes and the state's major players in the civil rights movement and tells the story of the struggle for racial equality through the lives and contributions of such notables as Harriett Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, and Frederick Douglass, as well as some of Maryland's important but relatively unknown men and women.
Drafted in the army at the age of eighteen while living in Phoenix Arizona, Donnell completed his army training in the Deep South in middle sixties. Then shipped to Vietnam where he was assigned to The 2nd and 18th Infantry Unit with the 1st Army Division, on an operation assignment as his platoon was separated from the main unit and pinned down behind enemy lines. Had to fight their way out and back to their main unit. Then transferred to 2nd & 16th Rangers attached to the 1st Division. In a ranger unit and forced to be a sniper. Then lift in the jungle and reported dead and missing too his mother and family. Wounded in the jungles of Vietnam somehow he found his way back and was rescued by another unit. Med Evace. to Zama hospital near Tokyo Japan where he recovered from his wounds, his military records were lost and they did not know who he was for weeks. Then assigned to a radio and TV station located Soul Korea (AFKN) where he finished his military tour Before returning to the States.
This is the powerful story of a man of God who learned to overcome hurts, fear, grief, and discouragement. Michael Cunningham's story is a moving and uplifting book that shows how he was able to find freedom from captivity to a variety of adverse circumstances that occurred throughout his life.
11 Principles To Achieve Financial Freedom: Master Your Financial Life 3 teaches about managing personal finance and shows readers how they can improve their financial life. Summary Of The Book 11 Principles To Achieve Financial Freedom: Master Your Financial Life 3 is quite different from conventional books on personal finance. The protagonist of the book is Sam. Instead of a story, the book is more of a collection of conversations between Sam, an IT professional, and his financial coach. Sam is portrayed as an amateur investor who is confused and totally lost when it comes to the world of finances. His coach invites him for a program called 90 Day Money Game that consists of 11 levels that span over a time period of nine days. The eleven levels of this money game are organized as eleven chapters in this book. These are not just chapters but eleven principles to make anybody a powerful investor. Sam’s financial coach transforms him into a potent investor. The chapters in the book are titled Laying a Strong Foundation, Creating New Relationship with Money, How to Create System to Create Wealth, The Game Changers, Investigation Begins, Set Yourself Instead of Setting Goals, How to Increase Income, Active versus Passive Income, How to Master the Game of Financial Freedom, and How to Make Every Year, the Best Financial Year. 11 Principles to Achieve Financial Freedom: Master Your Financial Life 3 highlights that personal finance is more about the person rather than the numbers. It teaches readers how to change themselves to change their financial situation. Through Sam’s story and his journey through the 90 Day Money Game, the readers will be taken out from their state of confusion. Sam’s financial coach changes his perception about personal finance and teaches him the art of creating wealth. He turns him into a flourishing investor. Similarly, this book is designed to be the coach, mentor, and guide for the reader as they embark on the journey of money making. By teaching how to explore one’s full financial potential, the book is designed to take one’s financial life to another level. 11 Principles To Achieve Financial Freedom: Master Your Financial Life 3 aims to help readers understand the value of looking beyond just financial products and returns, and consider wealth creation as a project. It sets a new trend in the world of personal finance.
Do This. Get Rich! is a straightforward guide that offers twelve simple yet powerful tools for achieving financial success by awaking the entrepreneur within. You will not only gain the skills needed to build and succeed in your own business, but you will win a new sense of direction and confidence that will guide you in reaching your most ambitious goals. You will also have a practical framework from which to handle everyday personal and business challenges, as well as strategies needed in today’s business world.
Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together—and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as servants, but as property. In the true love stories of Forbidden Fruit, you will meet sixteen couples who fought for love—love between slaves, between slaves and masters, and between slaves and free black folks. There is the fugitive slave from Virginia who spends seventeen years searching for his wife. A Georgia slave couple that sails for England with federal troops trailing behind. A white woman who falls in love with her deceased husband's slave. A young slave girl who is delivered to her fiancé inside a wooden chest. Acclaimed journalist Betty DeRamus gleaned these anecdotes from descendants of runaway slave couples, unpublished memoirs, Civil War records, census data, magazines, and dozens of previously untapped sources. This is a book about people pursuing love and achievement in a time of hate and severely limited opportunities. Though not all of the stories in Forbidden Fruit end in triumph, they all celebrate hope, passion, courage, and triumph of the human spirit.