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Author : Belinda Rochelle
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1997-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0140384324
Describes the experiences of young Blacks who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the sit-in movement.
Author : C. Peter Ripley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807844045
This extraordinary record of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects 89 exceptional documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens. (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Author : Amber Scorah
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 073522255X
"A fascinating glimpse into the consciousness of being an outsider in every possible way, and what it takes to find your path into the life you'd like to lead."--Nylon A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries. A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message to China, where the preaching she did was illegal and could result in her expulsion or worse. Here, she had some distance from her community for the first time. Immersion in a foreign language and culture--and a whole new way of thinking--turned her world upside down, and eventually led her to lose all that she had been sure was true. As a proselytizer in Shanghai, using fake names and secret codes to evade the authorities' notice, Scorah discreetly looked for targets in public parks and stores. To support herself, she found work at a Chinese language learning podcast, hiding her real purpose from her coworkers. Now with a creative outlet, getting to know worldly people for the first time, she began to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world and living a fulfilling life. When one of these relationships became an "escape hatch," Scorah's loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse, the only kind of ending possible for a Jehovah's Witness. Shunned by family and friends as an apostate, Scorah was alone in Shanghai and thrown into a world she had only known from the periphery--with no education or support system. A coming of age story of a woman already in her thirties, this unforgettable memoir examines what it's like to start one's life over again with an entirely new identity. It follows Scorah to New York City, where a personal tragedy forces her to look for new ways to find meaning in the absence of religion. With compelling, spare prose, Leaving the Witness traces the bittersweet process of starting over, when everything one's life was built around is gone.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 1995-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1429966866
Witness to Freedom is the fifth and final volume in the extraordinary correspondence of "one of the most original and challenging minds of the mid-twentieth century" (John Tracy Ellis, The New York Times Book Review). Dramatic and revealing, these letters deal with periods of serious crisis in Thomas Merton's life and vocation, giving readers, in his own words, the details and behind-the-scene facts of his personal struggles as well as his lifelong commitment to peace. This remarkable collection includes the unpublished "Cold War Letters" (as well as a complete list of the series), with Merton's original preface, which confirms their continuing relevance in the cause of peace. There are letters to ecologist Rachel Carson; artist and type designer Victor Hammer; Merton's friend and agent Naomi Burton Stone; his teacher Mark Van Doren; the Canadian philosopher Leslie Dewart; the French Arabic scholar Louis Massignon; and other famous as well as unknown correspondents. There is a courageous open letter to the American hierarchy on the issue of war. Witness to Freedom shows Merton as a living witness against war, perhaps one of the greatest of our century.
Author : Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 0691180954
The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws that protect the free exercise of religion in America. The trial, for which the author served as an expert witness, concerned regulations banning certain memorials from a multiconfessional nondenominational cemetery in Boca Raton, Florida. The book portrays the unsuccessful struggle of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families in Boca Raton to preserve the practice of placing such religious artifacts as crosses and stars of David on the graves of the city-owned burial ground. Sullivan demonstrates how, during the course of the proceeding, citizens from all walks of life and religious backgrounds were harassed to define just what their religion is. She argues that their plight points up a shocking truth: religion cannot be coherently defined for the purposes of American law, because everyone has different definitions of what religion is. Indeed, while religious freedom as a political idea was arguably once a force for tolerance, it has now become a force for intolerance, she maintains. A clear-eyed look at the laws created to protect religious freedom, this vigorously argued book offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society. It will have broad appeal not only for religion scholars, but also for anyone interested in law and the Constitution. Featuring a new preface by the author, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society.
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ISBN : 9780780769311
Author : Belinda Rochelle
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780613016940
Describes the experiences of young African Americans who were involved in significant events in the civil rights movement, including Brown vs. Board of Education, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the sit-in movement.
Author : Calvin C. Johnson, Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820327846
"The only firsthand account of a wrongful conviction overturned by DNA evidence"--Cover.
Author : C. Peter Ripley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807864358
Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.
Author : Pramod Kapoor
Publisher : Roli Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9788174366993
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was a pioneering American photojournalist. As staff photographer for the popular 'Life' magazine, she captured some of the defining moments of the 20th century, which often took her to trouble spots around the world. She was the first female war correspondent, and covered combat during the Second World War. This book contains a selection of photographs that were taken in India and Pakistan.