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| Author | : Hara Wright-Smith, Ph.D. |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2022-01-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1467107964 |
Wilmington's East Side is the oldest residential community in the city. The first Swedish colony settled there in the 1600s, and over time, Jewish, Polish, and African American people followed. By the mid-1950s, the East Side emerged as a predominantly Black, achievement-oriented community--a place where working-class families, Black-owned businesses, and Black doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, and community leaders lived, worshipped, and worked together amid segregation. Among historic landmarks are Howard High School, People's Settlement Association, Walnut Street Y, St. Michael's School and Nursery, Clifford Brown Walk, Louis Redding House, and multidenominational churches. Situated in an urban setting east of downtown, the East Side is walking distance from the central business district, small retail establishments, and employers.
| Author | : Hara Wright-Smith |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2022-01-10 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1439674264 |
Wilmington's East Side is the oldest residential community in the city. The first Swedish colony settled there in the 1600s, and over time, Jewish, Polish, and African American people followed. By the mid-1950s, the East Side emerged as a predominantly Black, achievement-oriented community--a place where working-class families, Black-owned businesses, and Black doctors, lawyers, teachers, musicians, and community leaders lived, worshipped, and worked together amid segregation. Among historic landmarks are Howard High School, People's Settlement Association, Walnut Street Y, St. Michael's School and Nursery, Clifford Brown Walk, Louis Redding House, and multidenominational churches. Situated in an urban setting east of downtown, the East Side is walking distance from the central business district, small retail establishments, and employers.
| Author | : Annette Woolard-Provine |
| Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780874137842 |
"The personal stories of lesser-known leaders in the civil rights movement remain unwritten. Moreover, the peculiar situation of the black middle class, which produced many of these civil rights heroes, remains largely unknown. The Reddings of Wilmington, Delaware were in many ways typical of their class in twentieth-century America. Their story is important because they were ordinary, hardworking people who strove for excellence and achieved success, and who for a moment in time, helped make a difference in their community and their country."--Jacket.
| Author | : Steven Levingston |
| Publisher | : Hachette Books |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2019-10-08 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0316487880 |
A Washington Post 2019 Notable Selection A vivid and inspiring account of the "bromance" between Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting, formed a dynamic working relationship that evolved into a profound friendship. Their affinity was not predestined. Obama and Biden began wary of each other: Obama an impatient freshman disdainful of the Senate's plodding ways; Biden a veteran of the chamber and proud of its traditions. Gradually they came to respect each other's values and strengths and rode into the White House together in 2008. Side-by-side through two tension-filled terms, they shared the day-to-day joys and struggles of leading the most powerful nation on earth. They accommodated each other's quirks: Biden's famous miscues kept coming, and Obama overlooked them knowing they were insignificant except as media fodder. With his expertise in foreign affairs and legislative matters, Biden took on an unprecedented role as chief adviser to Obama, reshaping the vice presidency. Together Obama and Biden guided Americans through a range of historic moments: a devastating economic crisis, racial confrontations, war in Afghanistan, and the dawn of same-sex marriage nationwide. They supported each other through highs and lows: Obama provided a welcome shoulder during the illness and death of Biden's son Beau. As many Americans turn a nostalgic eye toward the Obama presidency, Barack and Joe offers a new look at this administration, its absence of scandal, dedication to truth, and respect for the media. This is the first book to tell the full story of this historic relationship and its substantial impact on the Obama presidency and its legacy.
| Author | : Brett Gadsden |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2012-10-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0812207971 |
Between North and South chronicles the three-decade-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction. Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who translated popular complaints about the inequities in Jim Crow schooling into challenges to racial proscriptions in public education. Their legal victories subsequently provided the evidentiary basis for the Supreme Court's historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, marking Delaware as a center of civil rights advancements. Gadsden's further examination of a novel metropolitan approach to address the problem of segregation in city and suburban schools, wherein proponents highlighted the web of state-sponsored discrimination that produced interrelated school and residential segregation, reveals the strategic creativity of civil rights activists. He shows us how, even in the face of concerted white opposition, these activists continued to advance civil rights reforms into the 1970s, secured one of the most progressive busing remedies in the nation, and created a potential model for desegregation efforts across the United States. Between North and South also explores how activists on both sides of the contest in this border state—adjacent to the Mason-Dixon line—helped create, perpetuate, and contest ideas of southern exceptionalism and northern innocence. Gadsden offers instead a new framework in which "southern-style" and "northern-style" modes of racial segregation and discrimination are revealed largely as regional myths that civil rights activists and opponents alternately evoked and strategically deployed to both advance and thwart reform.
| Author | : Andrew J. F. Morris |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 052188957X |
This book examines the new relationship between charity and welfare in the era following the New Deal.
| Author | : Tiffany M. Gill |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2010-01-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0252095545 |
Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. Tiffany M. Gill argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity and that the seemingly frivolous space of a beauty salon actually has stimulated social, political, and economic change. From the founding of the National Negro Business League in 1900 and onward, African Americans have embraced the entrepreneurial spirit by starting their own businesses, but black women's forays into the business world were overshadowed by those of black men. With a broad scope that encompasses the role of gossip in salons, ethnic beauty products, and the social meanings of African American hair textures, Gill shows how African American beauty entrepreneurs built and sustained a vibrant culture of activism in beauty salons and schools. Enhanced by lucid portrayals of black beauticians and drawing on archival research and oral histories, Beauty Shop Politics conveys the everyday operations and rich culture of black beauty salons as well as their role in building community.
| Author | : Anne M. Boylan |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2021-06-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1644532085 |
Votes for Delaware Women is the first book-length study of the woman suffrage struggle in Delaware, placing it within the rich historical scholarship of the national story. It looks especially at why, despite decades of suffrage organizing and an epic struggle in Dover, in the spring of 1920, the legislature refused to make Delaware the final state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. The book traces how, starting in the 1890s, white and African American women organized and advocated for "votes for women," first by revising the state constitution and then through a federal amendment. Within the state's two major suffrage organizations, the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association (DESA), an affiliate of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and the Delaware branch of the National Woman's Party (NWP), divisions over strategy and tactics widened into fissures, especially during the Great War, making it difficult to unite in a common endeavor. Delaware was unusual as a border state that was segregated but did not disfranchise African Americans. In the end, the book argues, a combination of racial and class issues doomed the ratification effort.
| Author | : Ellen Rendle |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2010-05-03 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1439641293 |
Of Delawares three counties, New Castle County is the smallest in the area, even though two-thirds of Delawares residents call it home. Aldous Huxley once mused that the charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. Certainly this is true of New Castle County. Images of America: New Castle County begins in 1875, as steamboats plied the waters of the Christina and Delaware Rivers and farmers worked the countys fertile farmland. Over the next 100 years, the population skyrocketed 400 percent, and suburban shopping centers and housing developments covered what had been farmland. By 1975, New Castle County boasted corporate giants, the worlds largest twin-span bridge, and the stories of individuals as varied as DuPont family members; Emily Bissell, who introduced the Christmas Seal; and thousands of blue-collar workers making automobiles. New Castle Countys history is as rich and colorful as the changing of the seasons and the imaginations of those who have lived here.
| Author | : Mark L Baynard |
| Publisher | : In Pursuit of Freedom Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 131 |
| Release | : 2015-02-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0986138002 |
"100 Years" is an inspirational true story of courage, determination,and the will to make a positive change. As a teenager Mark got involved with drugs and the street life. His behavior led him to serve an extended prison sentence. Mark also realized that his family "collectively" wasted more than one hundred years in prison. Instead of blaming others Mark started the journey to end the cycle of crime and prison within his family as well as in the community. Mark's goal is prevent our youth from making some of the same mistakes that he made. Mark's story will inspire you to never give up despite the circumstances. There is always hope!
