Ballots And Blood
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Author | : Ralph Reed |
Publisher | : B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1433669250 |
Noted conservative Ralph Reed's third novel finds an inextricable link between a family-friendly U.S. senator's murder in a dominatrix dungeon, foreign relations, and the American midterm election.
Author | : James Patterson Smith |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781604735932 |
This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure in Mississippi. He joined his friends and allies Aaron Henry and the martyred Medgar Evers to combat injustices in one of the nation's most notorious bastions of segregation. In Mississippi, the civil rights struggle began in May 1959 with "w
Author | : Heather Lende |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1643750569 |
“This book will inspire people to work with and for their neighbors in all kinds of ways!” —Bill McKibben, author of Falter Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take an active role in politics during the past few years. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in Haines, Alaska, cost less than $1,000, she won! And tiny, breathtakingly beautiful Haines isn’t the sleepy town it appears to be. Yes, the assembly must stop bears from rifling through garbage on Main Street, but there is also a bitter debate about the fishing boat harbor and a vicious recall campaign that targets three assembly members, including Lende. In Of Bears and Ballots we witness the nitty-gritty of passing legislation, the lofty ideals of our republic, and the way our national politics play out in one small town. With her entertaining cast of offbeat but relatable characters, the writer whom the Los Angeles Times calls “part Annie Dillard, part Anne Lamott” brings us an inspirational tale about what living in a community really means, and what we owe one another.
Author | : Michael Douglas Naragon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1246 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Robert K. DeArment |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806137841 |
The complete story of the controversial county seat wars that raged in Kansas from 1885 to 1892 is told in this narrative that relives the violence that only avarice can breed and offers detailed portraits of such notorious participants as Sam Wood, Bat Masterson, Theodosius Botkin, and Bill Tilghman.
Author | : Jennifer Ruth Horner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : Ari Berman |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374711496 |
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015 An NPR Best Book of 2015 Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time. In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet, fifty years later, we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power, with lawmakers devising new strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth and with the Supreme Court declaring a key part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. Berman brings the struggle over voting rights to life through meticulous archival research, in-depth interviews with major figures in the debate, and incisive on-the-ground reporting. In vivid prose, he takes the reader from the demonstrations of the civil rights era to the halls of Congress to the chambers of the Supreme Court. At this important moment in history, Give Us the Ballot provides new insight into one of the most vital political and civil rights issues of our time.
Author | : Aditya Adhikari |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1781685649 |
The Bullet and the Ballot Box offers a rich and sweeping account of a decade of revolutionary upheaval. When Nepal’s Maoists launched their armed rebellion in the nineties, they had limited public support and many argued that their ideology was obsolete. Twelve years later they were in power, and their ambitious plan of social transformation dominated the national agenda. How did this become possible? Adhikari’s narrative draws on a broad range of sources – including novels, letters and diaries – to illuminate the history and human drama of the Maoist revolution. An indispensible account of Nepal’s recent history, the book offers a fascinating case study of how communist ideology has been reinterpreted and translated into political action in the twenty-first century.
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Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : African American civil rights workers |
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Leaflet issued by the NAACP. Inside is a list of African Americans who were killed in campaigns to secure voting rights from 1955 to 1968: Lamar Smith, George W. Lee, Herbert Lee, Medgar W. Evers, James Chaney, Louis Allen, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Vernon Dahmer, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The leaflet also lists several white people who were killed: Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, Viola Liuzzo, and James J. Reeb.
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Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Ballot |
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