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ISBN: 9780991218905
Category : African American poor families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"'Red ball of a sun slipping down' speaks of remembrance and change, of struggle and privation, of loving and loss, of things that came to pass in the Arkansas Delta long years ago and the way it is now."--Front jacket flap.
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ISBN: 9780991218912
Category : Photography
Languages : en
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A diaristic photographic portrait of the memory-laden Mississippi Delta of Arkansas Fifty years ago, New York-based photographer Eugene Richards (born 1944) worked as a VISTA Volunteer and then as a reporter in the Arkansas Delta. Even after the newspaper he helped found closed its doors, Richards kept revisiting the region. In early 2019 he returned to the small town of Earle, Arkansas, where, on a September night in 1970, peaceful protesters were attacked by a crowd of white men and women brandishing sticks and firing guns. Crossing the tracks from what had been the Black side of the town into the white side of the town, Richards happened upon an old appliance store. On the shadowy and cracked walls of the building were painted the faces of Jesus, Malcolm X, H. Rap Brown, Angela Davis, Dr. Martin Luther King and John Brown--the faces of revolution, reconciliation, change. In the months that followed, the old store became for Richards a kind of portal, a doorway into the region's volatile history and into the lives of those who lived, struggled, raised families, grew old and died there. The Day I Was Born interweaves full-bleed images of Earle with deeply personal narratives in the words of people who live there.
Author: Arthur Stringer
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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This incredible work presents a wonderfully vivid description of the prairie life of Canada in the early 20th century. It is a diary of a woman who likes being a homemaker and lives on the prairie. When her husband becomes involved with another woman and files for divorce, she makes every effort to keep their family together. But will their marriage survive?
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8707
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DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of the greatest works by Grace Livingston Hill: Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda A Daily Rate According to the Pattern Aunt Crete's Emancipation Cloudy Jewel The City of Fire Dawn of the Morning Exit Betty Lo, Michael! The Mystery of Mary The Search The Witness An Unwilling Guest The Red Signal The Story of a Whim The Tryst The Big Blue Soldier April Gold A New Name A Girl to Come Home To Blue Ruin Ariel Custer Duskin Crimson Mountain Coming Through the Rye The Chance of a Lifetime By the Way of the Silverthorns Bright Arrows Astra Beauty for Ashes The Patch of Blue Through These Fires All Through the Night More Than Conqueror Found Treasure Crimson Roses Head of the House A Chautauqua Idyl A Sevenfold Trouble Boy From Thyatira A Journey of Discovery Beginning at Jerusalem Hazel Cunningham's Denial Because of Stephen The Girl From Montana The Man of the Desert A Voice in the Wilderness The Enchanted Barn The War Romance of the Salvation Army Kerry Brentwood The Best Man Tomorrow About This Time Not Under the Law
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8707
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DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited and formatted collection of the greatest works by Grace Livingston Hill: Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda A Daily Rate According to the Pattern Aunt Crete's Emancipation Cloudy Jewel The City of Fire Dawn of the Morning Exit Betty Lo, Michael! The Mystery of Mary The Search The Witness An Unwilling Guest The Red Signal The Story of a Whim The Tryst The Big Blue Soldier April Gold A New Name A Girl to Come Home To Blue Ruin Ariel Custer Duskin Crimson Mountain Coming Through the Rye The Chance of a Lifetime By the Way of the Silverthorns Bright Arrows Astra Beauty for Ashes The Patch of Blue Through These Fires All Through the Night More Than Conqueror Found Treasure Crimson Roses Head of the House A Chautauqua Idyl A Sevenfold Trouble Boy From Thyatira A Journey of Discovery Beginning at Jerusalem Hazel Cunningham's Denial Because of Stephen The Girl From Montana The Man of the Desert A Voice in the Wilderness The Enchanted Barn The War Romance of the Salvation Army Kerry Brentwood
Author: Arthur Stringer
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Category : Prairies
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: Eugene Richards
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Eugene Richards first came to the southeastern part of Arkansas--the so-called Delta--in 1968 as a VISTA volunteer. After nearly two years in that organization working to set up a daycare center and recreation programs, he and some of his associates in it left to found RESPECT Inc., a private social-action program providing paralegal services, publishing a community newspaper, and distributing food and clothing in West Memphis (across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee).As he lived and became increasingly involved in the black community, Richards, a skilled photographer, began to use his camera to record what he observed--not only the poverty and suffering of these people but also their laughter, contemplation, and triumphs. His subjects range from children at play to an African-style wedding to scenes of work and home life. Death, religion, and imprisonment are major elements of Delta existence, and so of these photos.The 110 photographs collected here express the quality of life in a part of the South where 60 percent of the black families barely earn $2000 a year, and 70 percent of the dwellings are deteriorated and without plumbing. Richards' camera catches the cotton compresses, the cement mill, the broken fields and small cafes, Logan the mortician, the two blind brothers Willy and Isaiah McCowan, and the Reverend Ezra Greer at the state capitol in Little Rock, while his few but carefully chosen words complement these images. Together they hold the people and the place in a world that Richards feels "slipping by, while I merely observed its disappearance."I feared being only eyes, only a cameraman," he says, but through his camera his eyes become ours, and the power of his feelings, ours too.
Author: Eugene Richards
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780871136237
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Award-winning photographer Eugene Richards was asked by a magazine to report on what happens inside a typical emergency room. Once inside, he took photograps, talked with doctors and nurses and made friends with paramedics. He discovered a world he never knew existed. The Knife And Gun Club is the fascinating account of his exploration of emergency room medicine. Serial in LIFE magazine.
Author: Estate of: Joy B Hancock
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612512402
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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When legislation was passed in 1948 giving women permanent status in the regular and reserve Navy, it was largely due to the efforts of Joy Bright Hancock, the author of this revealing memoir. Her prominent role was acknowledged at the time by the secretary of the navy who credited her ideals, energy, and enthusiasm as the moving force behind the historic integration of women into the U.S. Navy, including the 1942 establishment of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service). This personal account of those formative years has long been considered the best study available. Originally published in 1972 and out of print for nearly twenty-five years, it is now being reissued in paperback to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of the WAVES. Hancock's own work as a Yeoman in World War I offered the armed services a lesson in the benefits of having women in uniform. Her descriptions are eye opening of those early days and her later efforts, when finally in a position of authority, to argue the case for women. With a wealth of documentation and numerous photographs, she chronicles not only her career but also the evolution of Navy women, offering colorful details of the legislative battles to get women admitted into the regular Navy. She reminds us that although it was not until 1967 that the last restriction of rank was removed, WAVES always served with equal pay for equal work. This new edition of her book will introduce generations of Americans to the problems of establishing a place for women in the Navy and details of Hancock's dogged pursuit of fair treatment for women in the armed services.
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8704
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Good Press presents to you the meticulously edited and formatted collection of the greatest works by Grace Livingston Hill: Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Miranda A Daily Rate According to the Pattern Aunt Crete's Emancipation Cloudy Jewel The City of Fire Dawn of the Morning Exit Betty Lo, Michael! The Mystery of Mary The Search The Witness An Unwilling Guest The Red Signal The Story of a Whim The Tryst The Big Blue Soldier The Best Man Tomorrow About This Time Not Under the Law
