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Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

Lucia Raatma

Presents the biography of Shirley Chisholm against the backdrop of her political, historical, and cultural environment.
Who Is the Great Shirley Chisholm: First African American ...

Who Is the Great Shirley Chisholm: First African American ...

America Selby

Against all odds she stood up on her own two feet and proclaimed that her input was valid. She is a light in a dark world. This is the story of Shirley Chisholm.
Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change

Barbara Winslow

Focusing on Chisholm's lifelong advocacy for fair treatment, access to education, and equal pay for all American minority groups, this book explores the life of a remarkable woman in the context of twentieth-century urban America and the ...
Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Shirley Chisholm

Chisholm recalls her remarkable rise from young girl in Brooklyn to America's first African-American Congresswoman. She shares how she took on an entrenched system, gave a public voice to millions, and forever changed the status quo.
Shirley Chisholm, teacher and Congresswoman

Shirley Chisholm, teacher and Congresswoman

Catherine Scheader

A biography of the first black woman to run for president of the United States.
Shirley Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

Jill S. Pollack

A biography of the first African American woman to be elected to Congress, and to run for a major party nomination for president recounts her girlhood in Barbados and her entry into politics
Shirley & Marty: An Unlikely Love Story

Shirley & Marty: An Unlikely Love Story

Shirley Jones

Recounts the successful marriage of Shirley Jones and Marty Ingels and describes their respective careers, Shirley's previous marriage to the womanizing Jack Cassidy, and Shirley and Marty's bittersweet romance. Reprint.
Clinton: 1940-1980

Clinton: 1940-1980

Chad Chisholm

I want to thank Dr. Walter Howell, former mayor; John H. Fox III, former city attorney; and Robert Wall, former photographer for the Clinton Chamber of Commerce. I owe many thanks to historian Shirley Faucette for her scholarship on Clinton.
Clinton 1940-1980

Clinton 1940-1980

Chad Chisholm

I owe many thanks to historian Shirley Faucette for her scholarship on Clinton. I am also grateful to Wyatt Waters, Ed McDonald, Debbie Tillman, Diane Newman- Carson, and Jan Nieminen at the Clinton Chamber of Commerce; Charlene ...
How to Write about Yourself: A Practical Guide to Using Your ...

How to Write about Yourself: A Practical Guide to Using Your ...

Alison Chisholm

They say everyone's got at least one book in them--and what better way to start than with your own life? Alison Chisholm shows you how
Hungry Hell: What It's Really Like to be Anorexic : a ...

Hungry Hell: What It's Really Like to be Anorexic : a ...

Kate Chisholm

Kate Chisholm was 24 when she was first hospitalized with anorexia nervosa.
A Fraction from Parallel

A Fraction from Parallel

Alison Chisholm

Alison Chisholm's eleventh collection brings together poems of joy, observation, nostalgia, pain, humour, fantasy and rather a lot of chocolate. Enjoy.
Shirley Jones: A Memoir

Shirley Jones: A Memoir

Shirley Jones

SHIRLEY JONES, BLESS YOUR BONES. YOUR CREW. That was the best moment of the entire shoot for me. As soon as filming of Oklahoma! finished, in a strange pub- licity maneuver, Rodgers and Hammerstein decided to dispatch me all ...
Shirley Jones: A Memoir

Shirley Jones: A Memoir

Shirley Jones

If the story of a rebellious, gifted small-town girl being discovered by Rodgers and Hammerstein isn’t thrilling enough, go deeper behind the scenes, where Shirley Jones portrays her tumultuous marriage to Jack Cassidy, the dashing and ...
Wits and Wives: Dr Johnson in the Company of Women

Wits and Wives: Dr Johnson in the Company of Women

Kate Chisholm

But in this revealing book Kate Chisholm argues it is time to consider how Johnson lived his life, not just what he said.
Mississippi Folklife

Mississippi Folklife

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CI> Chris Thompson, Chad Chisholm, and Dorothy- Dean Thomas are students at the University of Mississippi. Photographs are by Chad Chisholm. A different version of this paper appeared in Daily Mississippian. "1 AN AMERICAN ...
Pray & Grow Richer

Pray & Grow Richer

Shirley K. Clark

Dr. Shirley Clark and/or Shirley Clark International Ministries do not purport to be a Financial Advisor or any type of financial consultant. The information in this book about finances has been shared solely for the purpose for information, ...
Come Away from the Water, Shirley

Come Away from the Water, Shirley

John Burningham

Shirley's adventures at the beach are interspersed with familiar parental warnings.
The North Channel and St. Mary's River: A Guide to the History

The North Channel and St. Mary's River: A Guide to the History

Barbara Chisholm

A Guide to the History Andrea Gutsche, Barbara Chisholm, Russell Floren. Andy Tyson swims to a drifting boat with an inflated moose stomach, 1934 expertise in the world could not save a person from destiny's grip. Nevertheless, no one was ...
Compass Points - A Practical Guide to Poetry Forms: How To ...

Compass Points - A Practical Guide to Poetry Forms: How To ...

Alison Chisholm

If I was to choose any poet to enhance the Compass Points series it would be Alison Chisholm.She has a no-nonsense approach to teaching poetry thatcan be fully understood by non-poets (like myself) and is a highly respected poetin her ...
Up against the brass

Up against the brass

Andy Stapp

CGIR's most tireless and devoted member was Shirley Jolls, who had been on the staff of the Committee of Inquiry into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Shirley contacted lawyers and printers, raised money, solicited support from ...
Fabulous After 50: Finding Fulfillment for Tomorrow

Fabulous After 50: Finding Fulfillment for Tomorrow

Shirley Mitchell

This doesn't have to be so, and here is dynamic proof of that daring defiance. Author Shirley Mitchell challenges those approaching 50 not to dread it, but to relish the future. Greet it and make it your friend.
Have We Lost Our Common Sense?

Have We Lost Our Common Sense?

Bob Terrell

They fired Shirley Clark who was also over 70 years old, and was a very good employee. This reminded me of my mother's treatment some years earlier. Shirley and I had gone to high school together. Her first husband, B. C. Cummins and I ...
The Lady of Pleasure

The Lady of Pleasure

James Shirley

James Shirley Ronald Huebert. L ~. ~'. _ Q- 2-- ii>'~V'~'general editors E. A. ]. Honigmann, ]. R. Mulryne, D. Bevington and Eugene M. Waith This series throws new light on well-known plays and offers pioneering editions of neglected works.

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