Dream Makers, Dream Breakers

Dream Makers, Dream Breakers
Author: Carl Thomas Rowan
Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: African American judges
ISBN: 9781566492355

Dream Makers, Dream Breakers, the impassioned biography of the first African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, details the social, legal, economic, political, and moral history of the nation over most of the twentieth century. It covers the violent years of the black migration out of the post-bellum South, the frightening rise of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Depression, two world wars, and the African-American revolution that took place.

Dream Builders, Dream Killers

Dream Builders, Dream Killers
Author: Berteau Joisil
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 145005546X

All immigrants to America have a story with the American Dream, a story sometimes intimately intertwined with personal dreams. My story might be a surprising, if not maybe an unexpected one diverging from the usual account of pitiful existence in Haiti's slums or that of struggle for adaptation to America's way of life by one of Haiti's "boat people" who landed on South Florida's coast. It is a story that starts from the lower plains of the Artibonite Valley in Haiti with a dream from my great grandfather, Joizil Estimé, and continues in the United States, ultimately in Powell, Ohio. It is the story of a Haitian immigrant born in the small coastal town of Saint-Marc, Haiti. It evolves with my experiences growing up in my native country where my formative years were influenced by a connection to a diverse sociocultural environment. It progresses with my interaction with other societal enclaves in foreign lands like Germany and ultimately in the United States. It is an account of dreams fulfilled or unfulfilled, due not only to factors such as the convergence of different motivational agents (dreambuilders), the winds blowing on corporate America, whether in Haiti or the United States, but also to different conditions such as country of origin, globalization, social class, and Afro-ethnicity in America (dreamkillers). It is the story of coping with life changes, of integration into the American mainstream, of successes and disappointments of an immigrant from Haiti. But it is more than the story of an immigrant; it also reflects in a way the struggle of all immigrants coping with the pursuit of the American Dream and the quest for adaptation and continuous learning. It relates to all those who have wrestled with their dreams, those who have learned to make the best out of life's circumstances and keep a positive outlook in the era we live in. Dreambuilders, dreamkillers are in all walks of life.

Black Enterprise

Black Enterprise
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1993-09
Genre:
ISBN:

BLACK ENTERPRISE is the ultimate source for wealth creation for African American professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate executives. Every month, BLACK ENTERPRISE delivers timely, useful information on careers, small business and personal finance.

Servants of the People

Servants of the People
Author: L. Williams
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137066350

This revised and expanded edition traces the lives of key American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause, including A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Ella Baker.

Uplifting a People

Uplifting a People
Author: Marybeth Gasman
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780820474748

"Philanthropy is typically considered to be within the province of billionaires. This book broadens that perspective by highlighting modest acts of giving by African Americans on behalf of their own people. Examining the important tradition of Black philanthropy, this work documents its history: its beginning as a response to discrimination through self-help among freed slaves, and its expansion to include the support of education, religion, the arts, and legal efforts on behalf of civil rights. Using diverse approaches, the authors illuminate a new world of philanthropy - one that will be of interest to scholars and students alike. Chapters review the contributions of such major figures as Booker T. Washington and Thurgood Marshall, and discuss the often-surprising practices and methods of contemporary African American donors."--Jacket.

The Dream Maker

The Dream Maker
Author: Helen Fitzgerald Sanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1918
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

Servants of the People

Servants of the People
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1349614580

Beginning with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, this book traces the lives of six American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause: A. Philip Randolph, Frederick D. Patterson, Thurgood Marshall, Whitney M. Young, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and Fannie Lou Hamer.

Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall
Author: Roger Goldman
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993-04-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780881849653

Forty of Justice Marshall's opinions ruling on such issues as civil rights, education, abortion, and capital punishment are introduced by a law professor who highlights the issues and illuminates the workings of an astute legal mind