Oral History Guide
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 262
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Oral History Guide
Author: Microfilming Corporation of America
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Bright Light of Ours
Author: Maria Gitin
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014-02-11
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0817318178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965
The Fight for Freedom
Author: John Reynolds
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 147721013X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the summer of 1965, an eighteen-year-old boy, filled with frustration and anger at the injustices of the segregated society in his hometown of Troy, Alabama, volunteers to help Civil Rights workers sent to Alabama by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as part of a campaign to register black people to vote. A few short months later, he finds himself in Atlanta, standing in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church being interviewed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for a position on SCLC's field staff. As a young foot soldier in the Civil Rights Movement, author John Reynolds was an eyewitness to history. In The Fight for Freedom, he shares his experiences in some of the hot spots of that day, such as Selma, Birmingham, and Mississippi. A passionate and dedicated soldier, Reynolds was jailed more than twenty times and beaten on numerous occasions as he went through some of the toughest battles of the movement and played a role in awakening the national conscience and redeeming the soul of America. "The revealing, relevant, coming-of-age tale of a man and a nation. Tracing his years in the civil rights movement, Reynolds offers an insider's view of the people, events and tactics that brought the United States closer to the fulfillment of the founders' promise that 'all men are created equal.' Although this account concerns a time now past, it's nonetheless a timely reminder that citizens should always be ready to fight the good fight." -Excerpt from Kirkus Reviews
Northern Volunteers and the Southern "Freedom Summers", 1964-1965
Author: Mary Aickin Rothschild
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 508
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring and Expanding Literacy Histories of the United States
Author: Samuel DeJulio
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-08-26
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1040123074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring and Expanding Literacy Histories of the United States brings together new scholarship and critical perspectives hitherto missing from dominant narratives to offer a racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse record of the history of American reading instruction. This book addresses the many important developments in the history of literacy in the United States that occurred outside of mainstream public education, in marginalized communities in and outside of traditional school contexts. Instead of a “top-down” approach of prominent thinkers and theorists, the book intends to cover key blind spots, including literacy education in Indigenous nations, and how marginalized groups have fought for access to education, by applying a critical lens to the under-recognized histories of literacy. This volume is essential reading for courses on History of Reading Education and Foundations of Literacy.
This Day in Civil Rights History
Author: Randall Williams
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781588382412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique catalog of historic civil rights events, This Day in Civil Rights History details the struggles, sacrifices, and triumphs on the road to equal rights for all U.S. citizens. From the Quakers' 17th-century antislavery resolution, to slave uprisings during the Civil War, to the infamous Orangeburg Massacre in 1968, and beyond, authors Horace Randall Williams and Ben Beard present a vivid collection of 366 events--one for every day of the year plus Leap Day--chronicling African Americans' battle for human dignity and self-determination. Every day of the year has witnessed significant events in the struggle for civil rights. This Day in Civil Rights History is an illuminating collection of these cultural turning points.
The Feminist Memoir Project
Author: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780813539737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe women of The Feminist Memoir Project give voice to the spirit, the drive, and the claims of the Women's Liberation Movement they helped shape, beginning in the late 1960s. These thirty-two writers were among the thousands to jump-start feminism in the late twentieth century. Here, in pieces that are passionate, personal, critical, and witty, they describe what it felt like to make history, to live through and contribute to the massive social movement that transformed the nation. What made these particular women rebel? And what experiences, ideas, feelings, and beliefs shaped their activism? How did they maintain the will and energy to keep such a struggle going for so long, and continuing still? Memoirs and responses by Kate Millett, Vivian Gornick, Michele Wallace, Alix Kates Shulman, Joan Nestle, Jo Freeman, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Smith, Ellen Willis, Eve Ensler, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Roxanne Dunbar, Naomi Weisstein, Alice Wolfson and many more embody the excitement that fueled the movement and the conflicts that threatened it from within. Their stories trace the ways the world has changed.
Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations
Author: Nina Mjagkij
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 713
ISBN-13: 1135581231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans forHumanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * BlackWomen's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science* National Association of Black Geologists andGeophysicists * National Dental Association * NationalMedical Association * Negro Railway Labor ExecutivesCommittee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association *Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist EpiscopalChurch * and many more.
