Carrying The Torch

The real and painful struggles of the black players who followed Jackie Robinson into major and minor league baseball from 1947 to 1968 are chronicled in this compelling volume. Players share their personal and often heart-wrenching stories of intense racism, both on and off the field, mixed with a sometimes begrudged appreciation for their tremendous talents. Stories include incidents of white players who gave up promising careers in baseball because they wouldn t play with a black teammate, the Georgia law that forbade a black player from dressing in the same clubhouse as the white players, the quotas for the number of blacks on a team, and how salary negotiations without agents or free agency were akin to a plantation system for both black and white players. The 20 players profiled include Ernie Banks, Alvin Jackson, Charlie Murray, Chuck Harmon, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Hank Aaron, Curt Flood, Lou Brock, and Bob Watson. "

At the age of eight, Josiah took his place on the throne as King in Jerusalem. It began the fulfillment of the prophetic destiny that had been established for and about Josiah over three-hundred years earlier. He reigned as king for thirty-one years, and in that time he led the nation and the people through a time of revival and reconnection with God and God's ways. This book explores how Josiah carried the torch for revival, and draws on some principles from his reign that we can apply to see God bring a great revival in our day as well. When destiny overtakes reality there is a powerful thing that happens. It is time for you to step into your destiny today.

Two stories in one book, this is a powerful memoir of surviving the Holocaust, and should be read by everyone.

Finding your place in a family tree that has only one branch, the other shorn by the Holocaust, is a tricky business. Gail Weiss Gaspar grew up believing that her worth was tied to busyness and productivity, with achievement and education prized above all other accomplishments. Keenly aware that her beloved father survived Auschwitz and the brutal environment of the Mauthausen labor camp, she silenced her suffering because nothing could match what he endured. Gail's family had secrets, as all families do. It became her job to be the family's secret keeper. It wasn't until her 63-year-old father stood on stage at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and told his story that Gail understood that her voice mattered, too. This moving memoir honors the past while unshackling from it and highlights a generational journey through loss with tenderness and love. If you have ever said to yourself, "How could I possibly break free from my family's past?" this book is for you. When you read Carrying my Father's Torch, you will be inspired to consider how your family legacy has impacted your life, find the courage to overcome your legacy wound and become the hero of your own story

Metalworking is generally regarded as a skill that takes years of dedication, requires a large studio space, and costs a lot of money. Fortunately, Simple Soldering proves that does not need to be the case. This handy how-to guide is complete in its exploration of the craft of creating soldered metal jewelry, including tools, techniques, and 20 beautiful projects that beginners and enthusiasts can make at home. Author and teacher Kate Richbourg demystifies basic soldering for any home crafter, showing how to create sophisticated, polished, and professional-looking jewelry pieces through simple soldering techniques. First, she instructs how to set up a jewelry workspace that fits the confines of your budget and living space. Detailed step-by-step instructions walk you through the basic tools and materials you need, plus how to use them. A sample chapter gives a host of introductory exercises that teach solid skills, allowing you to test these techniques on a small scale. Finally, you'll discover 20 finished projects that include earrings, pendants, rings, bracelets, and clasps that may also include bead or wire embellishment. Kate also demonstrates how to combine and layer techniques to gorgeous effect. She also examines common mistakes, shows how to correct or adapt them, and gives advice on when it's time to start over. Most of all, having taught thousands of classes on soldering, Kate has a "you can do it!" attitude that shines through to help even the most reluctant jewelry maker fire up the torch with ease. With Simple Soldering, the art of metal working one-of-a-kind jewelry is now at your fingertips.

Publisher description: As a single mother haunted by painful memories from her own traumatic childhood, Hadiyah Joan Carlyle pioneered as one of the first women since World War II to enter the trades as a union welder. For Hadiya, welding became a metaphor for healing from the dark past as well as a path to self-reliance and economic survival. While providing insightful perspective on the culture of the 1960s and 1970s, this memoir offers profound inspiration for anyone struggling with issues of abuse and oppression.

This memoir chronicles the remarkable spiritual and educational journey of a poor village boy from Nigeria who, through sheer dint of hard work and unwavering Christian faith he learned from his father, struggled to realize his American dream. It serves as a model for contemporary immigrants to this land, especially Blacks from Third World countries, who struggle to add their individual strands to the sociocultural mosaic of the United States of America. Besides, as time goes on and the rapidly Americanized Ogbaa clan expands, none of its members may have to look beyond the book to find their roots. Carrying My Father's Torch is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas at Austin. "From the wrestling matches in which he tussled as a young boy living in an Igbo village where the winds swirled against udara trees during the West African harmattan season, to his early Christian schooling, through the horrors of the Biafra War and his eventual move to the United States where he earned his PhD, Kalu Ogbaa's memoir, Carrying My Father's Torch, is a moving, unflinchingly candid look at the life and times of a Nigerian man living in the country during one of its most tumultuous eras. Ogbaa's memoir spans a history dating back to the mid-20th century and furnishes us with fresh insights into the political and social changes during that period, while intimately detailing the personal trials, frustrations, and triumphs of one man's journey to live up to, and grow beyond, his father's desires for him to carry on the family name with honor. No one reading this memoir will doubt that Kalu Ogbaa has lived up to those early expectations, and has truly earned his father's praise name, Ikenga nna ya -- The right hand of his father." -- Tony Morris, Professor of English at the College of Liberal Arts, Armstrong Atlantic State University, Savannah, Georgia "This memoir is the best literary counterpunch to what I see as the contemporary degeneracy in the lifestyles of recent immigrants, thereby supplying a gradualist, honorable and decent vision of life based on hard work, faith, integrity, and dedication to work and family." -- Toyin Falola, author of A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt, the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin