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8 produkter
Year of Plenty
A Family's Season of Grief
Häftad, 2024
292 kr
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In November 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching. “When will you be home?” Steve asked. “I have news.” So began the Hollars family’s year of plenty--a cancer diagnosis on top of the ongoing COVID pandemic, then feelings of falling short as parents, partners, and …
Thirteen Loops
Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America
E-bok, 2011
454 kr
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Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America recounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deaths through no fault of their own: Vaudine Maddox in 1933 in Tuscaloosa, Sergeant Gene Ballard in 1979 in Birmingham, and Michael Donald in 1981 in Mobile. …
Opening the Doors
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
E-bok, 2013
514 kr
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Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement. Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the University of …
Road South
Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders
E-bok, 2018
378 kr
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Revisits the inspiring and heroic stories of the Freedom Riders, through their own words. In May 1961, despite multiple Supreme Court rulings, segregation remained alive and well within the system of interstate travel. All across the American South, interstate buses as well as their travel …
Dispatches from the Drownings
Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction
E-bok, 2014
478 kr
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Disturbed by stories of drownings in the river behind his home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, writer B. J. Hollars combed the archives of local newspapers only to discover vast discrepancies in articles about the deaths. In homage to Michael Lesy’s cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip , Hollars pairs …
Opening the Doors
The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
Inbunden, 2013
410 kr
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Opening the Doors is a wide-ranging account of the University of Alabama’s 1956 and 1963 desegregation attempts, as well as the little-known story of Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s, own civil rights movement.Whereas E. Culpepper Clark’s The Schoolhouse Door remains the standard history of the University of …
Dispatches from the Drownings
Reporting the Fiction of Nonfiction
Häftad, 2014
378 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Disturbed by stories of drownings in the river behind his home in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, writer B. J. Hollars combed the archives of local newspapers only to discover vast discrepancies in articles about the deaths. In homage to Michael Lesy’s cult classic, Wisconsin Death Trip, Hollars pairs …
