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Forty Acres
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Author : Dwayne Smith
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-07
Forty Acres written by Dwayne Smith and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07 with Fiction categories.
"A thriller about a Black society with a secret"--
Forty Acres And Maybe A Mule
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Author : Harriette Gillem Robinet
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-02-22
Forty Acres And Maybe A Mule written by Harriette Gillem Robinet and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-22 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
Hell S Forty Acres
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Author : Gordon D. Shirreffs
language : en
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date : 1987
Hell S Forty Acres written by Gordon D. Shirreffs and has been published by Fawcett this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.
The creator of Lee Kershaw, Manhunter, now writes a wild western of one man'sobsession with silver.
40 Acres And No Mule
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Author : Janice Holt Giles
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 1992-09-01
40 Acres And No Mule written by Janice Holt Giles and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-09-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the late 1940s, Janice and Henry Giles moved from Louisville, Kentucky, back to the Appalachian hill country where Henry had grown up and where his family had lived since the time of the Revolution. With their savings, the couple bought a ramshackle house and forty acres of land on a ridge top and set out to be farmers like Henry's forebears. To this personal account of the trials of a city woman trying to learn the ways of the country and of her neighbors, Janice Holt Giles brings the same warmth, humor, and powers of observation that characterize her novels. Enlightening and evocative, personal and universally pertinent, this description of a year of "backaches, fun, low ebbs, and high tides, and above all a year of eminent satisfaction" will be welcomed by Janice Holt Giles's many readers, old and new. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.
Integrating The 40 Acres
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Author : Dwonna Goldstone
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Integrating The 40 Acres written by Dwonna Goldstone and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
You name it, we can't do it. That was how one African American student at the University of Texas at Austin summed up his experiences in a 1960 newspaper article--some ten years after the beginning of court-mandated desegregation at the school. In this first full-length history of the university's desegregation, Dwonna Goldstone examines how, for decades, administrators only gradually undid the most visible signs of formal segregation while putting their greatest efforts into preventing true racial integration. In response to the 1956 Board of Regents decision to admit African American undergraduates, for example, the dean of students and the director of the student activities center stopped scheduling dances to prevent racial intermingling in a social setting. Goldstone's coverage ranges from the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the University of Texas School of Law had to admit Heman Sweatt, an African American, through the 1994 Hopwood v. Texas decision, which ended affirmative action in the state's public institutions of higher education. She draws on oral histories, university documents, and newspaper accounts to detail how the university moved from open discrimination to foot-dragging acceptance to mixed successes in the integration of athletics, classrooms, dormitories, extracurricular activities, and student recruitment. Goldstone incorporates not only the perspectives of university administrators, students, alumni, and donors, but also voices from all sides of the civil rights movement at the local and national level. This instructive story of power, race, money, and politics remains relevant to the modern university and the continuing question about what it means to be integrated.
Forty Acres
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Author : Kara A. Briggs Green
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2008-12
Forty Acres written by Kara A. Briggs Green and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12 with History categories.
Forty Acres was developed into a neighborhood in the 19th century from a 40-acre parcel of farmland. Just as many other neighborhoods have ethnic associations, many Irish Wilmingtonians have their roots in Forty Acres. Some Forty Acres families stayed for generations, and the neighborhood was popular well into the 20th century. What makes Forty Acres different is its sense of community and the close-knit relationships developed between its residents. While it is admired for its historic charm, the neighborhood is an urban community made up of a mixed-use residential and commercial village within the city of Wilmington. Today Forty Acres continues to be a place where the word "neighbor" holds strength, value, and friendship.
Forty Acres And A Fool
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Author : Roger Welsch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Forty Acres And A Fool written by Roger Welsch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Authors, American categories.
Forty Acres
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Author : Phyllis R Dixon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Forty Acres written by Phyllis R Dixon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.
No one gave the Washington family forty acres or a mule. C.W. Washington has risen from a sharecropper's son to the largest Black landowner in Dwight County, Arkansas. But a stroke has forced him to retire from farming. Now he must decide what happens to his beloved land. Each of his children has a suggestion. Unfortunately, none of them agree. C.W. is looking to his daughter, Carolyn, a high-level government attorney, to help him get his affairs in order during their annual family reunion. She agrees, even though she had planned to stay in Chicago with her off-again on-again boyfriend and maybe -- future husband. Should Carolyn advise C.W. to give the land to the son who stayed home and farmed alongside him for years? Or should he sell the land and divide the money equally among his seven children? Should he consider that one of them doesn't need money, or that one is almost bankrupt? What about his son in prison? And what about the surprising revelation that one of her siblings is not C.W.'s biological child? The reunion should be a time of fellowship and fun. But this year, along with barbeque, fried catfish and hand-cranked ice cream, there'll be servings of suspicion, secrecy and greed. And when 'Lil' Bucky' shows up-all grown up and looking good-Carolyn finds she has a secret of her own, and a decision to make. The Washingtons have overcome drought, poverty and Jim Crow. Now comes the hard part... Book jacket.
Forty Acres And A Mule
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Author : E. F. Fonkeng
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2013
Forty Acres And A Mule written by E. F. Fonkeng and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Poetry categories.
These traveler's impressions across cultural and psychological spaces portray the two sides of this coin called life, oftentimes belligerent toward each other. In casting light on that dream of total freedom and the daunting contradictions inherent in its being and attainment, they represent a dialectic in our seemingly unending journey toward the shadow of the good life as we ceaselessly jettison virtue against vice. At a level, they confront a certain tyranny of thought, in more ways than one, challenging us to go beyond the comfort of our ideas and our upbringing and to dare to look at the world in ways hitherto only dreamed of. Another way this challenge is portrayed is in regard to language and the cannons of poetry. Because literary writing in this so-called global society may rightfully be considered as war by other means, the reader will quickly observe the, literally, take-no-prisoner approach embedded in many of the pieces - the generalized despondency on the ground and the unprecedented cacophony of voices in the 'global village' calling for nothing less. The general conclusion of these poems would be the deferment - promise of living even as they constitute a heightened harkening for us to live beyond existence.
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Author : Gerard F. Murrin
language : en
Publisher: Author's Choice Publishing
Release Date : 2010
Forty Acres written by Gerard F. Murrin and has been published by Author's Choice Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
This spellbinding tale, filled with engaging characters, heroes and villains alike, confronts the land-use crisis in America. With chilling affect, this story foreshadows the look and feel of the mid-21st-century given the continued loss of land to commercial and residential development. In Murrin's fictional America, the federal government enacts radical legislation in an attempt to control land-use practices, resulting in a political landscape that is unrecognizable. Local power brokers quickly learn to manipulate the new system, outlawing dissension groups while continuing to devour open space at an alarming rate. However, despite being driven underground, the tiny Land Preservation Society (LPS) remains determined to save as many acres as they can. As Tom Sanders struggles to keep the LPS together, he pins his last hope on holding the line at Meador Farms, rumored to be an ancient Native American burial ground, making it a possible deterrence to development. Tom is in for the race of his life, as he desperately tries to save his beloved property.