Flushed

Flushed
Title Flushed PDF eBook
Author W. Hodding Carter
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 261
Release 2007-05-15
Genre History
ISBN 0743474090

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An anecdotal history of plumbing from the Harappan of 3000 B.C. to the modern world is a tribute to such engineering achievements as the lead pipes of the Roman empire, the sewers of London, and Japanese toilets.

So the Heffners Left McComb

So the Heffners Left McComb
Title So the Heffners Left McComb PDF eBook
Author Hodding Carter II
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 145
Release 2016-04-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1496807499

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On Saturday, September 5, 1964, the family of Albert W. "Red" Heffner Jr., a successful insurance agent, left their house at 202 Shannon Drive in McComb, Mississippi, where they had lived for ten years. They never returned. In the eyes of neighbors, their unforgiveable sin was to have spoken on several occasions with civil rights workers and to have invited two into their home. Consequently, the Heffners were subjected to a campaign of harassment, ostracism, and economic retaliation shocking to a white family who believed that they were respected community members. So the Heffners Left McComb, originally published in 1965 and reprinted now for the first time, is Greenville journalist Hodding Carter's account of the events that led to the Heffners' downfall. Historian Trent Brown, a McComb native, supplies a substantial introduction evaluating the book's significance. The Heffners' story demonstrates the forces of fear, conformity, communal pressure, and threats of retaliation that silenced so many white Mississippians during the 1950s and 1960s. Carter's book provides a valuable portrait of a family who was not choosing to make a stand, but merely extending humane hospitality. Yet the Heffners were systematically punished and driven into exile for what was perceived as treason against white apartheid.

Westward Whoa

Westward Whoa
Title Westward Whoa PDF eBook
Author William Hodding Carter
Publisher
Pages 312
Release 1994
Genre History
ISBN

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"How Preston and I set out in a rubber raft, afoot, and ahorse to discover the Northwest Passage."--Cover.

Lower Mississippi

Lower Mississippi
Title Lower Mississippi PDF eBook
Author Hodding Carter
Publisher
Pages 492
Release 1942
Genre Mississippi River
ISBN

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"SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY": p. 443-451.

Where Main Street Meets the River

Where Main Street Meets the River
Title Where Main Street Meets the River PDF eBook
Author Hodding Carter
Publisher New York, Rinehart
Pages 360
Release 1953
Genre Anecdotes
ISBN

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Hodding Carter, galley proof for "Where Main Street Meets the River," 1953.

The South Strikes Back

The South Strikes Back
Title The South Strikes Back PDF eBook
Author Hodding Carter
Publisher Negro Universities Press
Pages 220
Release 1959
Genre Political Science
ISBN

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A Viking Voyage

A Viking Voyage
Title A Viking Voyage PDF eBook
Author W. Hodding Carter
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2001-10-02
Genre Travel
ISBN 0345420047

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Fascinated since childhood with Leif Eriksson’s triumphant sailing voyage a thousand years ago from Greenland to North America, Hodding Carter could not shake his admittedly crazy idea of reenacting Eriksson’s epic journey in a precise replica of the precarious Viking cargo ship known as a knarr. This extraordinary book is the account of how he pulled it off. By turns thrilling and slapstick, sublime and outrageous, A Viking Voyage is an unforgettable adventure story that will take you to the heart of some of the most magnificent, unspoiled territory on earth, and even deeper, to the heart of a journey like no other. A celebration of the people and places Carter visits and a treasure-trove of fascinating Viking lore, here is an unforgettable story of friendship and teamwork–and the thrill of accomplishing a goal that once seemed impossible.