Will Owens' Children
Title | Will Owens' Children PDF eBook |
Author | Gertie M. Talton |
Publisher | Balboa Press |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2021-06-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1982268050 |
A biography of an African-American family in the deep south.
Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Title | Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Daughters of the American Revolution |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Genealogy |
ISBN |
The Scripture Genealogy, Beginning at Noah and His Three Sons ... Also the Genealogy of Jesus Christ ... To which is Added the Genealogy of the Cæsars, British Kings ... and the ... House of Hanover ... with the Gentlemen of North-Wales, and Elsewhere, and Several English Gentlemen on the Borders ... Also a Display of Herauldry of the Particular Coat Armours Now in Use in the Six Counties of North-Wales, Etc
Title | The Scripture Genealogy, Beginning at Noah and His Three Sons ... Also the Genealogy of Jesus Christ ... To which is Added the Genealogy of the Cæsars, British Kings ... and the ... House of Hanover ... with the Gentlemen of North-Wales, and Elsewhere, and Several English Gentlemen on the Borders ... Also a Display of Herauldry of the Particular Coat Armours Now in Use in the Six Counties of North-Wales, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | John Reynolds (of Oswestry.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1739 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Jesse Owens
Title | Jesse Owens PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline Edmondson |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2007-09-30 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0313087296 |
In an era far removed from the African American celebrity athletes of today, Olympic great Jesse Owens achieved fame by running faster and jumping farther than anyone in the world. Author Jacqueline Edmondson explores Owens' struggles and hard-earned accomplishments, as well as how he paved the way for future generations of athletes, including color-line shatterer Jackie Robinson. It is difficult to imagine a time when African Americans were not part of professional sports in the United States. So many admired and beloved African-American athletes are national heroes today: Michael Jordan, Venus and Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Florence Griffin-Joyner, Shaquille O'Neal, Muhammad Ali, to name a few. No such celebrity athletes appeared on magazine covers when Jesse Owens was a boy in the 1920s, no African American stars for him to hope to emulate. As the first American in track and field to win four gold medals in a single Olympic Games, Owens' athletic accomplishments were achieved despite seemingly insurmountable odds. This insightful biography tells the life story of a boy who grew up in poverty in the Deep South, won Olympic gold in Hitler's Germany by running faster and jumping farther than anyone in the world, and achieved fame and sometimes fortune in the midst of the Great Depression and a nation deeply divided by race. Yet while Owens broke world records in track and gained attention from the general public, few athletes could understand his experiences, including the overt racial discrimination he faced-even fewer who understood the complexities his fame brought. Author Jacqueline Edmondson explores Owens' struggles and hard-earned accomplishments, as well as how he paved the way for future generations of athletes, including color line shatterer, Jackie Robinson. A timeline, photos, and extensive bibliography of print and electronic sources supplement this biography of one of the greatest Olympic athletes in American history.
Ebony
Title | Ebony PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1960-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
The Montgomeryshire Collections
Title | The Montgomeryshire Collections PDF eBook |
Author | Powys-land Club |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Montgomeryshire (Wales |
ISBN |
A Tale of Two Plantations
Title | A Tale of Two Plantations PDF eBook |
Author | Richard S. Dunn |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 553 |
Release | 2014-11-04 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0674735366 |
Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.