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Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

Adam Fairclough

From the end of postwar Reconstruction in the South to an analysis of the rise and fall of Black Power, acclaimed historian Adam Fairclough presents a straightforward synthesis of the century-long struggle of black Americans to achieve ...
Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow

Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow

Adam Fairclough

In Teaching Equality, Adam Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States.
A Class of Their Own: Black teachers in the segregated South

A Class of Their Own: Black teachers in the segregated South

Adam Fairclough

A Class of Their Own is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.
Language and Power

Language and Power

Norman Fairclough

In this second edition, Norman Fairclough brings the discussion completely up-to-date with the inclusion of a new chapter covering the 'globalisation' of power relations and the development of the internet in relation to language and power.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Martin Luther King, Jr

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Chronicles the life and work of the civil rights leader, discussing his philosophies and politics, his response to Black power, and his concern for the poor, both Black and white In this concise and readable biography, Adam Fairclough ...
Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

Adam Fairclough

Part of a series of biographies of statesmen and women who have shaped the modern world, this book concerns Martin Luther King, who from both the pulpit and from jail, inspired black Americans to defy white supremacy and in so doing, re ...
A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of ...

A Fierce and Fractious Frontier: The Curious Development of ...

Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.

WASHINGTON PARISH AND ITS BLACK COMMUNITY Horace Mann Bond's Study of1934-1935 ADAM FAIRCLOUGH When I asked a Louisiana librarian for a history of Washington Parish, he shook his head with scarcely concealed ...
The Makers Of the 20th Century: Martin Luther King

The Makers Of the 20th Century: Martin Luther King

Adam Fairclough

Part of a series of biographies of statesmen and women who have shaped the modern world, this book concerns Martin Luther King, who from both the pulpit and from jail, inspired black Americans to defy white supremacy and in so doing, re ...
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, ...

Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, ...

Nick Kotz

63. PPP, "The President's Address to the Nation," 3/31/68; George H. Gallup, Gallup Poll, 3:2113, 2121. 64. Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America, pp. 379-380; Pottinger, pp. 16-19; David Garrow, Bearing the Cross, pp. 619-620.
The Star Creek Papers

The Star Creek Papers

Horace Mann Bond

Horace Mann Bond Adam Fairclough. to see how much his rescue would cost. " You work for Cap'n Julius!" the men exclaimed. There would be no charge for helping someone doing Julius Rosenwald's work. One of the Wilson kin lived in ...
Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, ...

Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, ...

Adam Fairclough

"Political Parties," in James Bolner, ed., Louisiana Politics: Festival in a Labyrinth (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State ... 50; James R. Bobo and Sandra A. Etheridge, eds., Statistical Abstract of Louisiana, 1969 (New Orleans: Louisiana State ...
Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from ...

Hazel Scott: The Pioneering Journey of a Jazz Pianist, from ...

Karen Chilton

Wil Haygood, King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. ( New York: Houghton Mif›in, 1993), 1. 5. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Adam by Adam : The Autobiography of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (New York: Dial, 1971), 30. 6.
Adam: Number 6 in series

Adam: Number 6 in series

Jacquelyn Frank

When the unthinkable happens, only one legendary male has the power and the will to save them: Adam. From their first tantalising touch, Jasmine knows Adam is different.
Adam Robots: Short Stories

Adam Robots: Short Stories

Adam Roberts

Unique twisted visions from the edges and the centre of the SF genres. Stories that carry Adam Roberts' trademark elegance of style and restless enquiry of the genre he loves so much.
George Washington/Adam Haslett: Akashic U.S. Presidents Series

George Washington/Adam Haslett: Akashic U.S. Presidents Series

Adam Haslett

In this book, bestselling author, Adam Haslett, introduces this surprisingly contemporary guide to manners and mores and considers whether or not the current President lives up to the virtues extolled by his predecessor.
Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal

Friends' Review: A Religious, Literary and Miscellaneous Journal

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and Adam Gibson; that the prisoner was Adam Gibson. He was the slave of Parson Davis of Maryland, but had never belonged to Knight. The other witness stated, that he knew Charity, the mother of Adam Gibson, while she was the slave of ...
FROM JAMESTOWN TO TEXAS: A History of Some Early Pioneers of ...

FROM JAMESTOWN TO TEXAS: A History of Some Early Pioneers of ...

Betty Smith Meischen

In another, it says “issued 10 Jul 1788, entered 28 Oct 1783” 222 “There is an Adam Grimes who died October 1794 and wife Anna Barbara buried Bethany Ch Cem. Is this the above Adam Grimes? The Adam Grimes noted on Farmers Creek  ...
Finding Adam: Epstein and Harewood: an Extraordinary Story

Finding Adam: Epstein and Harewood: an Extraordinary Story

Kerry Harker

The event will comprise of a lecture by Art Historian and Epstein expert Dr Evelyn Silber, followed by a guided tour of the 'Finding Adam' Exhibition led by Harewood's Curator.This is a unique opportunity to see the 'Finding Adam' ...
The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe: Philosophy ...

The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe: Philosophy ...

Mark Rowlands

mmemmunmwwmm) Adam Gibson's memory and the cigars being stashed in the car. And so cloned Adam Gibson's memory qualifies as a real memory rather than a pseudo-memory. 50, according to the memory theory, cloned Adam Gibson ...
Manual de Doenças Oculares do Wills Eye Hospital - 6ed: ...

Manual de Doenças Oculares do Wills Eye Hospital - 6ed: ...

Adam T. Gerstenblith

Diagnóstico e Tratamento no Consultório e na Emergência Adam T. Gerstenblith, Michael P. Rabinowitz ... Adam Gerstenblith e Michael Rabinowitz, os editores da sexta edição, foram extremamente eficientes na revisão desta nova edição: a ...
Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Jonathan Conlin

Cited in Nicholas Phillipson, Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (London, 2011), p. 104. Cited ibid., p. 85. 2 Spectatorship and Sympathy, 1751–63 Ian Campbell Ross, The Life of Adam Smith (Oxford, 1995), p. 118. Ibid., p. 194. Ralph S. Walker ...
Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 5: Engaging Lessons to ...

Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 5: Engaging Lessons to ...

Oczkus, Lori

Mollycules. Adam: Hey, look, Mom, I'm an atom! Mom: Adam: It's a supercharged superhero, like me! Mom: little confused. Neutron: Arf! Mom: That's enough from you, Neutron. Molly: are cooler anyway. Adam: It's not "Molly-cules," you know!
Adam's Latin Grammar with Some Improvements - Scholar's ...

Adam's Latin Grammar with Some Improvements - Scholar's ...

Alexander Adam

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections

Understanding the Cold War: A Historian's Personal Reflections

Adam Bruno Ulam

On that score, Adam Ulam's [Understand the Cold War] succeed on every level. To spend time with this book is to spend time with Adam himself. ..
The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages

The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages

Alastair Fowler

H. R. Fairclough, missing the point, translates: 'Yet to have won favour with the foremost men is not the lowest glory'; Gerard Kilroy, more convincingly, has: 'The greatest praise does not come from having pleased princes.'5 The verse ...
Adam of the Road

Adam of the Road

Elizabeth Janet Gray

Eleven-year-old Adam Quartermayne searches the English countryside for his minstrel father, and his dog Nick during the thirteenth-century.
Adam Jones

Adam Jones

Mattern Joanne

Baseball. Minneapolis: Bellwether Media, 2010. WORKS CONSULTED Astute. “ MLB All-Star Adam Jones Interview." http://astutemagazine.com/mlb-all-staradam -jones-interview/ Blumberg Mayhugh, Jess. "Adam Jones is Engaged." Baltimore  ...

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