Jerry's Riot
Title | Jerry's Riot PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin S. Giles |
Publisher | Booklocker.Com Incorporated |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781591137184 |
Details the clash between a former Alcatraz inmate, Jerry Myles, and a reform warden. This inside look at a prison riot chronicles the lives of the men involved in it and the consequences that followed.
Summer of the Black Chevy
Title | Summer of the Black Chevy PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin S. Giles |
Publisher | Booklocker.com |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781634907101 |
Paul Morrison launches his first teenage summer at a school dance, longing for girls and the smack of baseballs. His innocence ends quickly that night when a roaring black Chevy chases him into the dark, but it's the mysterious stranger driving it who scares him more. It's 1965 in Deer Lodge, Montana, far from the busy faraway world that Paul and his girlfriend Marcy read about in books...
Dark Spaces
Title | Dark Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen Baumler |
Publisher | UNM Press |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826345476 |
Baumler and Cooper collaborate to tell the human story of Montana's first federal penal facility.
Conspiracy to Riot
Title | Conspiracy to Riot PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Weiner |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1948742861 |
A memoir of a life in activism by one of the original defendants in the Trial of the Chicago 7, subject of the 2020 Oscar-nominated Aaron Sorkin film of the same name. In March 1969, eight young men were indicted by the federal
All American Boys
Title | All American Boys PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Reynolds |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2015-09-29 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1481463357 |
A 2016 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, and recipient of the Walter Dean Myers Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature. In this New York Times bestselling novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement? There were witnesses: Quinn Collins—a varsity basketball player and Rashad’s classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan—and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his savior could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team—half of whom are Rashad’s best friends—start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before. Written in tandem by two award-winning authors, this four-starred reviewed tour de force shares the alternating perspectives of Rashad and Quinn as the complications from that single violent moment, the type taken directly from today’s headlines, unfold and reverberate to highlight an unwelcome truth.
Warm Weather & Bad Whiskey
Title | Warm Weather & Bad Whiskey PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry D. Thompson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The violence between the two partidos gave rise to the all-powerful Independent Club, the Partido Viejo as it came to be known locally, which dominated Laredo politics for over eighty years and had a major influence on regional, state and even national politics. Jerry Thompson, a historian at Laredo State University known for his work in chronicling the Civil War of the Southwest, has researched the Bota-Guarache confrontation almost entirely from primary sources. He says, "The feud was not sheepmen against cattlemen, homesteaders against ranchers, the unscrupulous against the righteous, or the powerful against the weak. It was a feud between several closely related and powerful families with shifting and often confusing allegiances that cut across racial, religious and class lines.
Did It! From Yippie to Yuppie
Title | Did It! From Yippie to Yuppie PDF eBook |
Author | Pat Thomas |
Publisher | Fantagraphics Books |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2017-04-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1606998927 |
This is a coffee table art book and biography of Yippie Jerry Rubin. This overstuffed coffee table book is not only the first biography of the infamous and ubiquitous Jerry Rubin―co-founder of the Yippies, Anti-Vietnam War activist, Chicago 8 defendant, social-networking pioneer, and a proponent of the Yuppie era―but a visual retrospective, with countless candid photos, personal diaries, and lost newspaper clippings. It includes correspondence with Abbie Hoffman, Norman Mailer, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Eldridge Cleaver, the Weathermen, and interviews with more than 75 of Rubin’s friends, foes, and comrades. It reveals Rubins' and the Yippies’ historical-and-bizarre personal interactions with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Charles Manson, Mick Jagger, and other iconic figures of the era.