Daybreak of Freedom
Title | Daybreak of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Burns |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807882917 |
The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak of Freedom, Stewart Burns presents a groundbreaking documentary history of the boycott. Using an extraordinary array of more than one hundred original documents, he crafts a compelling and comprehensive account of this celebrated year-long protest of racial segregation. Daybreak of Freedom reverberates with the voices of those closest to the bus boycott, ranging from King and his inner circle, to Jo Ann Robinson and other women leaders who started the protest, to the maids, cooks, and other 'foot soldiers' who carried out the struggle. With a deft narrative hand and editorial touch, Burns weaves their testimony into a riveting story that shows how events in Montgomery pushed the entire nation to keep faith with its stated principles.
Daybreak
Title | Daybreak PDF eBook |
Author | David Swanson |
Publisher | Seven Stories Press |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2011-01-04 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1609800656 |
Daybreak is a thorough investigation of how Bush/Cheney altered the way American government works and deteriorated the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It includes clear plans for how we may reclaim democracy, declare our rights, and truly set out for a new America. Shocking and inspirational, Daybreak provides a clear breakdown of all that we have lost, and all that we have to gain.
Right to Ride
Title | Right to Ride PDF eBook |
Author | Blair L. M. Kelley |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2010-05-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807895814 |
Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing against segregated rails that led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896 and the streetcar boycott movement waged in twenty-five southern cities from 1900 to 1907. Kelley tells the stories of the brave but little-known men and women who faced down the violence of lynching and urban race riots to contest segregation. Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores the community organizations that bound protestors together and the divisions of class, gender, and ambition that sometimes drove them apart. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance.
Daybreak Zero
Title | Daybreak Zero PDF eBook |
Author | John Barnes |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101475897 |
A year has passed since the catastrophic event known as "Daybreak" began. Seven billion people have died. Washington, D.C., has been vaporized. The United States barely avoided a second civil war between two rival governments that rose from Washington's ashes. And "Daybreak" isn't over...
Bloody Lowndes
Title | Bloody Lowndes PDF eBook |
Author | Hasan Kwame Jeffries |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2010-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0814743315 |
The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care fo their patients, from transference to difficulties in dealing with the patient's family. Treating Eating Disorders addresses the pressure and responsibility faced by practicing therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Legal, ethical, and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the gender of the therapist affects treatment figure centrally in this invaluable navigational guide.
Social Movements of the 1960s
Title | Social Movements of the 1960s PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Burns |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Civil rights movements |
ISBN | 9780805797381 |
America was irrevocably changed by the 1960s civil rights, anti-war and feminist movements. This study examines them side by side, revealing their interdependence, common grassroots origins and cumulative impact. Burns clarifies how the struggle for black equality helped empower other causes and how the New Left gave rise to the peace movements as it fueled the tumultuous counterculture. He traces the history of each movement and makes conclusions about leadership, electoral politics and coalition-building.
Seven Men at Daybreak
Title | Seven Men at Daybreak PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Burgess |
Publisher | Bantam Books |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | World War, 1939-1945 |
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