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Author | : Gilbert King |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2012-03-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062097717 |
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize “A must-read, cannot-put-down history.” — Thomas Friedman, New York Times Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve. When a white seventeen-year-old girl cried rape, McCall pursued four young black men who dared envision a future for themselves beyond the groves. The Ku Klux Klan joined the hunt, hell-bent on lynching the men who came to be known as "the Groveland Boys." Associates thought it was suicidal for Marshall to wade into the "Florida Terror," but the young lawyer would not shrink from the fight despite continuous death threats against him. Drawing on a wealth of never-before-published material, including the FBI's unredacted Groveland case files, as well as unprecedented access to the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund files, Gilbert King shines new light on this remarkable civil rights crusader.
Author | : Southern Tuolumne County Historical Society |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2020-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467105287 |
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Big Oak Flat and Groveland provide a window into hundreds of years of California history. For millennia, the Me-Wuk people lived in harmony with the environment, tapping nature for their food and shelter. Then, in 1848, James Savage found gold, and the 49er Gold Rush brought a placer mining boom. The two towns developed almost overnight. However, the easy ore was soon depleted, and a devastating fire in 1863 contributed to a severe decline in population and prosperity. In the 1880s, improved technology led to a new "hard rock" mining boom, but in 30 years, it also turned to bust. From 1915 to 1935, Groveland was the headquarters for the giant Hetch Hetchy project, which dammed the Tuolumne River and sent its water to San Francisco. In the 1960s and 1970s, Pine Mountain Lake was developed into a successful vacation and retirement community. Over the years, local residents have contributed to the development and support of Yosemite National Park tourism, making it the "Gateway to Yosemite."
Author | : Holstein-Friesian Association of America |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1690 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Cattle |
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Author | : Illinois. Department of Mines and Minerals |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
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-1898 include also the reports of the State Inspectors of Mines; 1899-1907, Report of the Illinois Free Employment Offices; 1917- , reports of the Miners' Examining Board and the Mine Rescue and First Aid Division (formerly Mine Rescue Station Commission).
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1224 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Shippers' guides |
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Author | : Illinois. Department of Mines and Minerals |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Coal |
ISBN | : |
Download Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics Concerning Coal in Illinois Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Adin Ballou Underwood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
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Author | : American Angus Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Aberdeen-Angus cattle |
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Author | : American Aberdeen-Angus Breeders' Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Aberdeen-Angus cattle |
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Author | : Mary Pattillo |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022602122X |
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First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.