All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 225
Release: 1991-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 067973404X

In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of "Revolutionist Returnees" inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Walking Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive exploration of what it means to be an African American on the mother continent, where color no longer matters but where American-ness keeps asserting itself in ways both puzzling and heartbreaking. As it builds on the personal narrative of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Gather Together in My Name, this book confirms Maya Angelou’s stature as one of the most gifted autobiographers of our time.

All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes

All God's Children and Blue Suede Shoes
Author: Kenneth A. Myers
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1989
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780891075387

Skillfully analyzes American popular culture, tracing its development and influence throughout history, and ultimately exposes its impact on character. Part of the Turning Point Christian Worldview series.

American Negro Songs

American Negro Songs
Author: John Wesley Work
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486402711

Authoritative study traces the African influences and lyric significance of such songs as Swing Low, Sweet Chariot and John Henry, and gives words and music for 230 songs. Bibliography. Index of Song Titles.

All God's Children

All God's Children
Author: Fox Butterfield
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307280330

A timely reissue of Fox Butterfield’s masterpiece, All God’s Children, a searing examination of the caustic cumulative effect of racism and violence over 5 generations of black Americans. Willie Bosket is a brilliant, violent man who began his criminal career at age five; his slaying of two subway riders at fifteen led to the passage of the first law in the nation allowing teenagers to be tried as adults. Butterfield traces the Bosket family back to their days as South Carolina slaves and documents how Willie is the culmination of generations of neglect, cruelty, discrimination and brutality directed at black Americans. From the terrifying scourge of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction to the brutal streets of 1970s New York, this is an unforgettable examination of the painful roots of violence and racism in America.

Critical Race Theory in Education

Critical Race Theory in Education
Author: Adrienne D. Dixson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317973046

Brings together several scholars from both law and education to provide some clarity on the status and future directions of Critical Race Theory, answering key questions regarding the ''what' and ''how'' of the application of CRT to education.

What Size Are God's Shoes?

What Size Are God's Shoes?
Author: Tim Schenck
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2008-07
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780819223128

"It’s hard to have a God complex when your kids expect you to play garbage truck every night. This is the game where I lie on the floor as the boys stuff trucks, action figures, and plastic dinosaurs into my shirt. When the garbage truck is full to the point of overflowing, I go to the town dump by standing up. This is repeated ad nauseum. On any given day, I might find myself absolving sins in the name of the Church one moment and serving the cause of waste management the next." Do you believe God can be found in both the miraculous and the mundane? Through 40 insightful and engaging essays, Tim Schenck helps us encounter God through the chaos of everyday life. The divine presence weaves its way into a family room fish tank, a child’s probing questions, the town pool, and the drive-thru window of the local fast food chain.

500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics

500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics
Author: Ronald Herder
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-01-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486171523

Complete lyrics for well-known folk songs, hymns, popular and show tunes, more. Oh Susanna, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, hundreds more. Indispensable for singalongs, parties, family get-togethers, etc.

All God's Children

All God's Children
Author: Aaron Gwyn
Publisher: Europa Editions
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2020-10-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609456351

This sweeping novel set in the province of Texas is “a powerful depiction of the rough realities of frontier life [and] the vicious influence of racism” (The New York Times). Finalist for the Reading the West Book Award for Fiction In 1827, Duncan Lammons, a disgraced young man from Kentucky, sets out to join the American army in the province of Texas, hoping that here he may live—and love—as he pleases. That same year, Cecelia, a young slave in Virginia, runs away for the first time. Soon infamous for her escape attempts, Cecelia continues to drift through the reality of slavery—until she encounters frontiersman Sam Fisk, who rescues her from a slave auction in New Orleans. In spite of her mistrust, Cecelia senses an opportunity for freedom, and travels with Sam to Texas, where he has a homestead. In this new territory, where the law is an instrument for the cruel and the wealthy, they begin an unlikely life together, unaware that their fates are intertwined with those of Sam’s former army mates, including Duncan Lammons, a friend—and others who harbor dangerous dreams of their own. This “swift and skillful Western” takes its place among the great stories that recount the country’s fight for freedom—one that makes us want to keep on with the struggle (The Wall Street Journal). “Gwyn creates an overwhelmingly visceral and emotionally rich narrative amid Texas’s complex path to statehood . . . This is a masterpiece of western fiction in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and James Carlos Blake.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “It’s always a pleasure to discover another superb writer who had not been on my radar . . . many scenes pulse with tension, tenderness or both.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune

God's Children

God's Children
Author: Harold Coyle
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2009-04-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466824905

“The modern master of life-under-combat [delivers] an engrossing, uncompromisingly suspenseful tale” of high-tech warfare (Kirkus Reviews). As the Good Book says, “Blessed are the Peace Keepers, for they will be called God’s Children.” Yet for American soldiers deployed to warzones on foreign soil, peacekeeping is not child’s play. In this action-filled technothriller, author and military expert Harold Coyle examines some of the most pressing issues facing today’s soldiers. When ethnic tensions in near-future Slovakia reach a boiling point, the US Army sends troops to join a NATO force in the region. God’s Children tells the story of 3rd Platoon, C Company, 2nd Battalion of the 13th Infantry, and two young officers who try to keep a peace that is falling apart before their very eyes.

A Song Flung Up to Heaven

A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2003-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0553897314

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts. Then Watts explodes in violence, a riot she describes firsthand. Subsequently, on a trip to New York, she meets Martin Luther King, Jr., who asks her to become his coordinator in the North, and she visits black churches all over America to help support King’s Poor People’s March. But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party—where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heavenends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird.