A Better Life for Their Children

A Better Life for Their Children
Title A Better Life for Their Children PDF eBook
Author Andrew Feiler
Publisher
Pages 136
Release 2021-02
Genre Education
ISBN 9780820358413

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Born to Jewish immigrants, Julius Rosenwald rose to lead Sears, Roebuck & Company and turn it into the world's largest retailer. Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington became the founding principal of Tuskegee Institute. In 1912 the two men launched an ambitious program to partner with black communities across the segregated South to build public schools for African American children. This watershed moment in the history of philanthropy--one of the earliest collaborations between Jews and African Americans--drove dramatic improvement in African American educational attainment and fostered the generation who became the leaders and foot soldiers of the civil rights movement. Of the original 4,978 Rosenwald schools built between 1917 and 1937 across fifteen southern and border states, only about 500 survive. While some have been repurposed and a handful remain active schools, many remain unrestored and at risk of collapse. To tell this story visually, Andrew Feiler drove more than twenty-five thousand miles, photographed 105 schools, and interviewed dozens of former students, teachers, preservationists, and community leaders in all fifteen of the program states. A Better Life for their Children includes eighty-five duotone images that capture interiors and exteriors, schools restored and yet-to-be restored, and portraits of people with unique, compelling connections to these schools. Brief narratives written by Feiler accompany each photograph, telling the stories of Rosenwald schools' connections to the Trail of Tears, the Great Migration, the Tuskegee Airmen, Brown v. Board of Education, embezzlement, murder, and more. Beyond the photographic documentation, A Better Life for Their Children includes essays from three prominent voices. Congressman John Lewis, who attended a Rosenwald school in Alabama, provides an introduction; preservationist Jeanne Cyriaque has penned a history of the Rosenwald program; and Brent Leggs, director of African American Cultural Heritage at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has written a plea for preservation that serves as an afterword.

A Better Life for Children and Adolescents Through Diet and Exercise

A Better Life for Children and Adolescents Through Diet and Exercise
Title A Better Life for Children and Adolescents Through Diet and Exercise PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Nordic Council of Ministers
Pages 91
Release 2008
Genre Children
ISBN 9289318031

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The Better Life

The Better Life
Title The Better Life PDF eBook
Author Claire Diaz-Ortiz
Publisher Moody Publishers
Pages 119
Release 2015-05-18
Genre Self-Help
ISBN 0802493092

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Little ways to be you at your best, right where you are. From the can-do entrepreneur Claire Diaz-Ortiz, The Better Life is a motivational memoir about little changes that make all the difference. In winsome style, Claire offers vignettes from her life to yours. A top-level Twitter employee, world traveler, author, non-profit founder, and mom, Claire tries to make the most of every moment. In The Better Life, she shares stories and insights about balance, productivity, self-care, and other essentials for rocking it at life every day. Take some advice from Claire: Say yes. Say no. Quit something. Take your mornings seriously. Make your weekends count. Write more. Worry less. Travel. Pray. Pause. Rest. Know your limits. Do Hatchi Patchi. Don’t beat yourself up. Be still. Be thankful. Be you, but your best. Read this book, and start living the better lifeyou’ve been meaning to.

Beyond Motherhood

Beyond Motherhood
Title Beyond Motherhood PDF eBook
Author Jeanne Safer
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 212
Release 1996-02
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 0671793446

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Women from all over the country share their experiences and offer insights into what it is like not having children, and describe what factors helped shape their decision to remain childless.

Toward A Better Life

Toward A Better Life
Title Toward A Better Life PDF eBook
Author Peter Morton Coan
Publisher Prometheus Books
Pages 385
Release 2011-10-11
Genre History
ISBN 1616143959

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This book offers a balanced, poignant, and often moving portrait of America’s immigrants over more than a century. The author has organized the book by decades so that readers can easily find the time period most relevant to their experience or that of family members. The first part covers the Ellis Island era, the second part America’s new immigrants—from the closing of Ellis Island in 1955 to the present. Also included is a comprehensive appendix of statistics showing immigration by country and decade from 1890 to the present, a complete list of famous immigrants, and much more. This rewarding, engrossing volume documents the diverse mosaic of America in the words of the people from many lands, who for more than a century have made our country what it is today. It distills the larger, hot-topic issue of national immigration down to the personal level of the lives of those who actually lived it.

I Left My Homework in the Hamptons

I Left My Homework in the Hamptons
Title I Left My Homework in the Hamptons PDF eBook
Author Blythe Grossberg
Publisher Harlequin
Pages 219
Release 2021-08-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0369703154

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A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth both helps and harms the children of the one percent. Ben orders daily room service while living in a five-star hotel. Olivia collects luxury brand sneakers worn by celebrities. Dakota jets off to Rome when she needs to avoid drama at school. Welcome to the inner circle of New York’s richest families, where academia is an obsession, wealth does nothing to soothe status anxiety and parents will try just about anything to gain a competitive edge in the college admissions rat race. When Blythe Grossberg first started as a tutor and learning specialist, she had no idea what awaited her inside the high-end apartments of Fifth Avenue. Children are expected to be as efficient and driven as CEOs, starting their days with 5:00 a.m. squash practice and ending them with late-night tutoring sessions. Meanwhile, their powerful parents will do anything to secure one of the precious few spots at the Ivy Leagues, whatever the cost to them or their kids. Through stories of the children she tutors that are both funny and shocking, Grossberg shows us the privileged world of America’s wealthiest families and the systems in place that help them stay on top.

Be Kind

Be Kind
Title Be Kind PDF eBook
Author Pat Zietlow Miller
Publisher
Pages 37
Release 2018-02-06
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1626723214

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A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of small acts of kindness, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.