From Every Mountainside
Title | From Every Mountainside PDF eBook |
Author | R. Drew Smith |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2013-06-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1438447264 |
It has become popular to confine discussion of the American civil rights movement to the mid-twentieth-century South. From Every Mountainside contains essays that refuse to bracket the quest for civil rights in this manner, treating the subject as an enduring topic yet to be worked out in American politics and society. Individual essays point to the multiple directions the quest for civil rights has taken, into the North and West, and into policy areas left unresolved since the end of the 1960s, including immigrant and gay rights, health care for the uninsured, and the persistent denials of black voting rights and school equality. In exploring these issues, the volume's contributors shed light on distinctive regional dimensions of African American political and church life that bear in significant ways on both the mobilization of civil rights activism and the achievement of its goals.
Silence on the Mountain
Title | Silence on the Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Wilkinson |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822333685 |
Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.
My Country 'Tis of Thee
Title | My Country 'Tis of Thee PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Francis Smith |
Publisher | Cartwheel Books |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780439391955 |
Interprets the patriotic song, America (My country, 'tis of thee), with photographs.
Discovering Nature on the Mountainside
Title | Discovering Nature on the Mountainside PDF eBook |
Author | Lenka Chytilova |
Publisher | Peek Inside |
Pages | 14 |
Release | 2021-09-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781641241441 |
This vibrant children's book is a one-of-a-kind adventure to see what life is like on a mountain range through all the seasons! Featuring adorable illustrations, educational captions, vocabulary words, cut-out accents, and hidden chambers that reveal so much to discover with every turn of the page, young readers will learn all about incredible animals and mountain wildlife like they never have before!
Dear Justyce
Title | Dear Justyce PDF eBook |
Author | Nic Stone |
Publisher | Ember |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2022-01-04 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1984829696 |
The stunning sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Martin. Incarcerated teen Quan writes letters to Justyce about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds and Angie Thomas. In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller, Nic Stone delivers an unflinching look into the flawed practices and silenced voices in the American juvenile justice system. Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later, though, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University . . . and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Through a series of flashbacks, vignettes, and letters to Justyce--the protagonist of Dear Martin--Quan's story takes form. Troubles at home and misunderstandings at school give rise to police encounters and tough decisions. But then there's a dead cop and a weapon with Quan's prints on it. What leads a bright kid down a road to a murder charge? Not even Quan is sure. "A powerful, raw, must-read told through the lens of a Black boy ensnared by our broken criminal justice system." -Kirkus, Starred Review
Hinds Feet on High Places
Title | Hinds Feet on High Places PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Hurnard |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2013-03-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1625588607 |
Much-Afraid had been in the service of the Chief Shepherd, whose great flocks were pastured down in the Valley of Humiliation. She lived with her friends and fellow workers Mercy and Peace in a tranquil little white cottage in the village of Much-Trembling. She loved her work and desired intensely to please the Chief Shepherd, but happy as she was in most ways, she was conscious of several things which hindered her in her work and caused her much secret distress and shame. Here is the allegorical tale of Much-Afraid, an every-woman searching for guidance from God to lead her to a higher place.
In Our Own Words
Title | In Our Own Words PDF eBook |
Author | Senator Robert Torricelli |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 2000-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0743410521 |
Presents a collection of oratory including sermons, speeches, courtroom arguments, radio broadcasts, eulogies, and commencement addresses.