She Can Bring Us Home
Title | She Can Bring Us Home PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Kiesel |
Publisher | Potomac Books |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2019-03-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1640121684 |
Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898–1980) lived by the motto “Yes, we can.” An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time when African Americans faced Jim Crow segregation, desperate poverty, and lynch mobs, she advised presidents on civil rights and assisted foreign governments on public health issues. Though articulate, visionary, talented, and skillful at managing her publicity, she was also tragically flawed. Ferebee was president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha black service sorority and later became the president of the powerful National Council of Negro Women in the nascent civil rights era. She stood up to gun-toting plantation owners to bring health care to sharecroppers through her Mississippi Health Project during the Great Depression. A household name in black America for forty years, Ferebee was also the media darling of the thriving black press. Ironically, her fame and relevance faded as African Americans achieved the political power for which she had fought. In She Can Bring Us Home, Diane Kiesel tells Ferebee’s extraordinary story of struggle and personal sacrifice to a new generation.
Bring Jade Home
Title | Bring Jade Home PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Caffrey |
Publisher | Farcountry Press |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2018-06-12 |
Genre | Pets |
ISBN | 1560377356 |
Imagine your dog, suddenly lost in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. Alone. At night. Surrounded by wolves and grizzly bears. Day after day, week after week. How far would you go to find your dog? Time is running out. Predators. Frigid nights. A dangerous landscape. Starvation. Bring Jade Home is the gripping true story of Jade, a young Australian shepherd, who disappears into Yellowstone's wilderness after a horrific car wreck. Despite their injuries and against doctor's orders, her owners David and Laura leave the Trauma Center to begin a desperate search - can they find Jade before it's too late? The perfect read for dog lovers and wilderness enthusiasts alike, Bring Jade Home is the heartwarming tale of the owners, park employees, and huge search effort to bring Jade home. This story will melt your heart and renew your faith in dogs - and people.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Title | The Last Days of Pompeii PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Pompeii (Extinct city) |
ISBN |
De Mauriac v. De Mauriac, 243 MICH 385 (1928)
Title | De Mauriac v. De Mauriac, 243 MICH 385 (1928) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 1928 |
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ISBN |
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Scribner's Magazine ...
Title | Scribner's Magazine ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 806 |
Release | 1891 |
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Munsey's Magazine for ...
Title | Munsey's Magazine for ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 976 |
Release | 1904 |
Genre | American periodicals |
ISBN |
Bring the War Home
Title | Bring the War Home PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Belew |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2019-05-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674237692 |
A Guardian Best Book of the Year “A gripping study of white power...Explosive.” —New York Times “Helps explain how we got to today’s alt-right.” —Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of Vietnam veterans and disgruntled civilians who shared their virulent anti-communism and potent sense of betrayal concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. The command structure of their covert movement gave women a prominent place. They operated with discipline, made tragic headlines in Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Oklahoma City, and are resurgent under President Trump. Based on a decade of deep immersion in previously classified FBI files and on extensive interviews, Bring the War Home tells the story of American paramilitarism and the birth of the alt-right. “A much-needed and troubling revelation... The power of Belew’s book comes, in part, from the fact that it reveals a story about white-racist violence that we should all already know.” —The Nation “Fascinating... Shows how hatred of the federal government, fears of communism, and racism all combined in white-power ideology and explains why our responses to the movement have long been woefully inadequate.” —Slate “Superbly comprehensive...supplants all journalistic accounts of America’s resurgent white supremacism.” —Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian