The author describes the threats and emotional abuse she endured from white student and adults along with her fears of endangering her family as she commited to being one of the first African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
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Genre Book | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
Author Book | : Melba Beals |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Release Book | : 2007-07-24 |
Download Book | : 240 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : 9781416948827 |
Warriors Don T Cry
Children Of The City
The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.
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Genre Book | : History |
Author Book | : David Nasaw |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Release Book | : 2012-05-16 |
Download Book | : 256 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : 9780307816627 |
The Long Shadow Of Little Rock
At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower–the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates's own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.
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Genre Book | : Biography & Autobiography |
Author Book | : Daisy Bates |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Release Book | : 2014-08-01 |
Download Book | : 269 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : 9781610752473 |
White Is A State Of Mind
The author continues her story of the events following the integration of the Little Rock schools and describes her journey toward forgiveness
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Genre Book | : Biography & Autobiography |
Author Book | : Melba Beals |
Publisher | : Putnam Publishing Group |
Release Book | : 1999 |
Download Book | : 337 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015053398502 |
They Called Me Number One
BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist) Burt Award for First Nations, M�tis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner) Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only-not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family-from substance abuse to suicide attempts-and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. Number One comes at a time of recognition-by governments and society at large-that only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them.
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Genre Book | : Biography & Autobiography |
Author Book | : Bev Sellars |
Publisher | : Talonbooks Limited |
Release Book | : 2013 |
Download Book | : 227 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : 0889227411 |
Lost Revolutions
Chronicles the events and societal trends that created disturbance and conflict after World War II, discussing school integration, migration into the cities, the civil rights movement, and the breakdown of traditional values.
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Genre Book | : History |
Author Book | : Pete Daniel |
Publisher | : University of North Carolina Press |
Release Book | : 2000 |
Download Book | : 378 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : UVA:X004400059 |
Way Of The Peaceful Warrior
Presents the author's personal account of his spiritual quest to unite the diverse realms of body, mind, and spirit by combining Eastern philosophy with Western fitness routines to become an example of the peaceful warrior.
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Genre Book | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
Author Book | : Dan Millman |
Publisher | : H J Kramer |
Release Book | : 2000 |
Download Book | : 213 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : 9780915811892 |
Fire From The Rock
Sylvia is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in the fall of 1957, whether people like it or not. Before Sylvia makes her final decision, smoldering racial tension in the town ignites into flame. When the smoke clears, she sees clearly that nothing is going to stop the change from coming. It is up to her generation to make it happen, in as many different ways as there are colors in the world.
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Genre Book | : Young Adult Fiction |
Author Book | : Sharon Draper |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Release Book | : 2008-09-18 |
Download Book | : 240 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : 1440651361 |
Love Warrior
#1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Bookclub 2016 Selection "Riveting...a worthy investment...this book has real wisdom." —New York Times Book Review "A book with so much painful truth packed into its pages that every person who’s ever married or plans to marry should really give it a read." —Chicago Tribune "Provocative....I adore her honesty, her vulnerability, and her no-nonsense wisdom, and I know you will, too." —Oprah Winfrey "This memoir isn’t really about Glennon rebuilding her relationship with her husband; it is about Glennon rebuilding her relationship with herself. Utterly refreshing and...badass." —Bustle.com The highly anticipated new memoir by bestselling author Glennon Doyle tells the story of her journey of self-discovery after the implosion of her marriage. Just when Glennon Doyle Melton was beginning to feel she had it all figured out—three happy children, a doting spouse, and a writing career so successful that her first book catapulted to the top of the New York Times bestseller list—her husband revealed his infidelity and she was forced to realize that nothing was as it seemed. A recovering alcoholic and bulimic, Glennon found that rock bottom was a familiar place. In the midst of crisis, she knew to hold on to what she discovered in recovery: that her deepest pain has always held within it an invitation to a richer life. Love Warrior is the story of one marriage, but it is also the story of the healing that is possible for any of us when we refuse to settle for good enough and begin to face pain and love head-on. This astonishing memoir reveals how our ideals of masculinity and femininity can make it impossible for a man and a woman to truly know one another—and it captures the beauty that unfolds when one couple commits to unlearning everything they’ve been taught so that they can finally, after thirteen years of marriage, commit to living true—true to themselves and to each other. Love Warrior is a gorgeous and inspiring account of how we are born to be warriors: strong, powerful, and brave; able to confront the pain and claim the love that exists for us all. This chronicle of a beautiful, brutal journey speaks to anyone who yearns for deeper, truer relationships and a more abundant, authentic life.
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Genre Book | : Biography & Autobiography |
Author Book | : Glennon Doyle |
Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
Release Book | : 2016-09-06 |
Download Book | : 272 Pages |
ISBN-10 | : 9781250075741 |
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