Parchman Ordeal, The: 1965 Natchez Civil Rights Injustice

Parchman Ordeal, The: 1965 Natchez Civil Rights Injustice
Author: G. Mark LaFrancis with Robert Morgan and Darrell White
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467140643

In October 1965, nearly 800 young people attempted to march from their churches in Natchez to protest segregation, discrimination and mistreatment by white leaders and elements of the Ku Klux Klan. As they exited the churches, local authorities forced the would-be marchers onto buses and charged them with "parading without a permit," a local ordinance later ruled unconstitutional. For approximately 150 of these young men and women, this was only the beginning. They were taken to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, where prison authorities subjected them to days of abuse, humiliation and punishment under horrific conditions. Most were African Americans in their teens and early twenties. Authors G. Mark LaFrancis, Robert Morgan and Darrell White reveal the injustice of this overlooked dramatic episode in civil rights history.

Freedom's Ordeal

Freedom's Ordeal
Author: Peter Juviler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2010-11-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0812202392

Fifteen countries have emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union. Freedom's Ordeal recounts the struggles of these newly independent nations to achieve freedom and to establish support for fundamental human rights. Although history has shown that states emerging from collapsed empires rarely achieve full democracy in their first try, Peter Juviler analyzes these successor states as crucial and not always unpromising tests of democracy's viability in postcommunist countries. Taking into account the particularly difficult legacies of Soviet communism, Freedom's Ordeal is distinguished by its careful tracing of the historical background, with special attention to human rights before, during, and after communism. Juviler suggests that the culture and practices of despotism may wither wherever modernization conflicts with tyranny and with the curtailment or denial of democratic rights and freedoms.

American Slavery, American Freedom

American Slavery, American Freedom
Author: Edmund S. Morgan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2003-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393347516

"Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable."—New York Times Book Review In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only the Declaration but also the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; they were elected to the presidency of the United States under that Constitution for thirty-two of the first thirty-six years of its existence. They were all slaveholders. In the new preface Edmund S. Morgan writes: "Human relations among us still suffer from the former enslavement of a large portion of our predecessors. The freedom of the free, the growth of freedom experienced in the American Revolution depended more than we like to admit on the enslavement of more than 20 percent of us at that time. How republican freedom came to be supported, at least in large part, by its opposite, slavery, is the subject of this book. American Slavery, American Freedom is a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the keys to this central paradox, "the marriage of slavery and freedom," in the people and the politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the Revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.

Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson the Virginian

Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson the Virginian
Author: Dumas Malone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 572
Release: 1948
Genre: Presidents
ISBN:

A classic biography of Jefferson. Among the many contributions of this authoritative study was Malone's inclusion in each volume of a detailed timeline of Jefferson's activities and frequent travels in his life. Malone's volumes were widely praised for their lucid and graceful writing style, for their rigorous and thorough scholarship, and for their attention to Jefferson's evolving constitutional and political thought. Later, however, some reviewers faulted Malone, believing he had a tendency to adopt Jefferson's own perspective and thus to be insufficiently critical of his occasional political errors, faults, and lapses. Some said that he was biased in favor of Jefferson and against his principal adversaries Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and John Marshall. Also, during the period in which this was being written, historical studies of slavery and its influences in the United States expanded dramatically. Some academics said that Malone did not adequately treat Jefferson's life as a slaveowner and the paradoxes inherent in his views on liberty and slavery.--Adapted from Wikipedia, 11/2016.

The Ordeal of the Reunion

The Ordeal of the Reunion
Author: Mark Wahlgren Summers
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469617579

Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction

The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson

The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
Author: Herbert Hoover
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1992-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780943875415

The great tragedy of the twenty-eighth President as witnessed by his loyal lieutenant, and the thirty-first President.

The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson

The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1974
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674641617

The paradoxical and tragic story of America's most prominent Loyalist - a man caught between king and country.

The Ordeal Of Integration

The Ordeal Of Integration
Author: Orlando Patterson
Publisher: Civitas Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1997-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

In this provocative new book, sociologist Orlando Patterson takes on the intractable dilemma of race in late 20th-century America. Using current demographic research, Patterson exposes common misperceptions about the lives and experiences of black and white Americans, misperceptions that are hampering the success of integration.

Ordeal by Fire

Ordeal by Fire
Author: James M. McPherson
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 762
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN:

Written by a leading Civil War historian and Pulitzer Prize winner, this text describes the social, economic, political, and ideological conflicts that led to a unique, tragic, and transitional event in American history. The third edition incorporates recent scholarship and addresses renewed areas of interest in the Civil War/Reconstruction era including the motivations and experiences of common soldiers and the role of women in the war effort.