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This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from
different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet
Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama,
chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how
much—and how little—has changed for Black Americans since our
country’s founding. Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and
subtle lessons on how racism operates, A LONG TIME COMING reveals
the universal importance of its subjects’ struggles for justice.
From freedom seeker Ona Judge, who fled her enslavement by
America’s first president, to Barack Obama, the first Black
president, all of Shepard’s protagonists fight valiantly for
justice for themselves and all Black Americans in any way that they
can.  But it is also a highly personal book, as Shepard —
whose maternal grandfather was enslaved — shows how the grand
sweep of history has touched his life, reflecting on how much
progress has been made against racism, while also exhorting readers
to complete the vast work that remains to be done.
Who was Coretta Scott King? Her black-veiled image at the funeral
of her husband Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was moving and iconic.
This book introduces readers to the woman behind the veil—a girl
full of spunk and pluck, bravery and grit. “Corrie, you are a
brave soldier. I don’t know what I would do without you.â€
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Much more than just a wife, Coretta
Scott King was Martin’s partner in the fight for justice. It
wasn’t always easy. From an early age, she stood strong against
white violence toward her family in the South, and against
discrimination as a music student in the North. Coretta found her
voice as a classical singer, but she struggled mightily to speak
out as an activist in the face of men who thought she should be
seen and not heard. But she never wavered. When Martin died, it was
Coretta who carried on the struggle, and preserved his legacy so
that his voice would be heard by future generations. This important
story, told in poetry and prose, is a riveting introduction to an
important and instrumental figure in the history of activism and
civil rights.
Before Garrett Morgan became a successful inventor and saved
countless lives with his creations, he was a little boy with a head
full of ideas on how to make life better for everyone. At a
tumultuous time filled with racism and discrimination, Garrett
became a prominent business man and skilled inventor who produced
the traffic signal, a gas mask, and others objects still used
today. This second book from the award-winning children's film
series founded by Karyn Parsons, Sweet Blackberry, comes a
little-known story about a man whose talent would be a gift to the
world.
"A profile as bold and vivacious as the singer herself." -Kirkus
(starred review) Perfect for fans of Trombone Shorty and Ada's
Violin! Award-winning author Tonya Bolden and acclaimed illustrator
R. Gregory Christie deliver an inspiring true story about the life,
career, and impact of 20th-century blues and gospel singer Sister
Rosetta Tharpe, who was a trailblazer for rock-and-roll. Includes a
timeline of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's life, author's note, and a list
of sources. Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard,
and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of
rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music
in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a
big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a
rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen
rocking out. Her guitar picking was like nobody else's! Boogie
along with this rockin' tribute to the Rock n' Roll Hall of Famer
Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author
Tonya Bolden and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator R. Gregory
Christie.
The closest friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Soviet wife Marina
upon the couple's arrival in Texas breaks a sixty-year silence with
a riveting story of his time with JFK's assassin and his candid
assessment of the murder that marked a turning point in our
country's history. Merely two hours after the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy, television cameras captured police
escorting a suspect into Dallas police headquarters. Meanwhile at
the University of Oklahoma, watching the coverage in the student
center, Paul Gregory scanned the figure in dark trousers and a
white, V-neck tee shirt and saw the bruised and battered face of
Lee Harvey Oswald. Shocked, Gregory said, "I know that man." In
fact, he knew Oswald and his wife Marina better than almost anyone
in America. After sixty years, Paul Gregory finally tells
everything he knows about the Oswalds and how he watched the soul
of a killer take shape. Identified by the FBI as a "known associate
of LHO," Gregory soon faced interrogations by the Secret Service.
Later he would testify before the Warren Commission. Here, in The
Oswalds, he offers the intimate details of his time spent with Lee
and wife Marina in their run-down duplex on Mercedes Street in Fort
Worth, Texas, and his admission into the inner world of a young
marriage before candidly assessing the murder that marked a turning
point in our country's history. His riveting recollection includes
memories both casual and deadly serious, such as the dinner at his
parents' house introducing Marina to the "Dallas Russians," a
front-yard incident of spousal abuse, and a further rift in the
marriage when he exposed to Marina that Oswald was not the dashing,
radical intellectual whose Historic Diary would be a publishing
sensation. And Gregory also gives a fascinating account of his
father's role as an eyewitness to history, serving as Marina's
translator and confidante in the first four days after the
assassination. As a scholar and skilled researcher, Gregory debunks
the vast array of assassination conspiracy theories by
demonstrating that Lee Harvey Oswald did it and did it alone-that
the Oswald he once called a friend had the motive, the
intelligence, and the means to commit one of the most shocking
crimes in American history.
Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule
during the Revolutionary War, oppressive conditions remained in
place for the thousands of enslaved and free African Americans
living in this country. But African Americans took up their own
fight for freedom by joining the British and American armies;
preaching, speaking out, and writing about the evils of slavery;
and establishing settlements in Nova Scotia and Africa. The
thirteen stories featured in this collection spotlight charismatic
individuals who answered the cry for freedom, focusing on the
choices they made and how they changed America both then and now.
These individuals include: Boston King, Agrippa Hull, James
Armistead Lafayette, Phillis Wheatley, Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman,
Prince Hall, Mary Perth, Ona Judge, Sally Hemings, Paul Cuffe, John
Kizell, Richard Allen, and Jarena Lee. Includes individual
bibliographies and timelines, author note, and source notes.
This book outlines the creative process of making environmental
management decisions using the approach called "Structured Decision
Making." It is a short introductory guide to this popular form of
decision making and is aimed at environmental managers and
scientists. ""This is a distinctly pragmatic label given to ways
for helping individuals and groups think through tough
multidimensional choices characterized by uncertain science,
diverse stakeholders, and difficult tradeoffs. This is the everyday
reality of environmental management, yet many important decisions
currently are made on an ad hoc basis that lacks a solid
value-based foundation, ignores key information, and results in
selection of an inferior alternative. Making progress - in a way
that is rigorous, inclusive, defensible and transparent - requires
combining analytical methods drawn from the decision sciences and
applied ecology with deliberative insights from cognitive
psychology, facilitation and negotiation. The authors review key
methods and discuss case-study examples based in their experiences
in communities, boardrooms, and stakeholder meetings. The goal of
this book is to lay out a compelling guide that will change how you
think about making environmental decisions.
Visit www.wiley.com/go/gregory/sdm to access the figures and
tables from the book.
This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism
during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of
literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs
their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in
which they originated. The book brings together work by leading
academics and younger scholars.
This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism
during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of
literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs
their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in
which they originated. The book brings together work by leading
academics and younger scholars.
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The Book Itch (Hardcover)
Micheaux Nelson Vaunda, Christie R. Gregory
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This book outlines the creative process of making environmental
management decisions using the approach called "Structured Decision
Making." It is a short introductory guide to this popular form of
decision making and is aimed at environmental managers and
scientists. ""This is a distinctly pragmatic label given to ways
for helping individuals and groups think through tough
multidimensional choices characterized by uncertain science,
diverse stakeholders, and difficult tradeoffs. This is the everyday
reality of environmental management, yet many important decisions
currently are made on an ad hoc basis that lacks a solid
value-based foundation, ignores key information, and results in
selection of an inferior alternative. Making progress - in a way
that is rigorous, inclusive, defensible and transparent - requires
combining analytical methods drawn from the decision sciences and
applied ecology with deliberative insights from cognitive
psychology, facilitation and negotiation. The authors review key
methods and discuss case-study examples based in their experiences
in communities, boardrooms, and stakeholder meetings. The goal of
this book is to lay out a compelling guide that will change how you
think about making environmental decisions.
Visit www.wiley.com/go/gregory/sdm to access the figures and
tables from the book.
Before Bessie Coleman blazed a high trail with her plane. Before
she was performing death-defying flying shows, that would earn her
fame as, 'Queen Bess.' Before she traveled the country speaking out
against discrimination. Bessie was a little girl with a big
imagination that took her to the sky, through the clouds, and past
the birds. Knocking down barriers, one by one, Bessie endured
racism and grueling training to become the first female
African-American pilot, and an inspiration to Mae Jemison,
Josephine Baker, and many more influential people of color for
years to come.
During the course of three decades, Joseph Stalin's Gulag, a vast
network of forced labour camps and settlements, held many millions
of prisoners. People in every corner of the Soviet Union lived in
daily terror of imprisonment and execution. In researching the
surviving threads of memoirs and oral reminiscences of five women
victimised by the Gulag, Paul Gregory has stitched together a
collection of stories from the female perspective, a view in short
supply in the literature. Capturing the fear, paranoia, and
unbearable hardship that were hallmarks of Stalin's Great Terror,
Gregory relates the stories of these five women-from different
social strata and regions-in vivid prose, from their pre-Gulag
lives, through their struggles to survive in the repressive
atmosphere of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to the difficulties
facing the four who survived as they adjusted to life after the
Gulag. These firsthand accounts illustrate how even the wrong word
could become a crime against the state. Gregory begins with a
synopsis of Stalin's rise to power, the roots of the Gulag, and the
scheming and plotting that led to and persisted in one of the
bloodiest, most egregious dictatorships of the twentieth century.
Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that doesn't stop her from
making a place for herself in a jiffy. With her can-do attitude and
awesome brain power she takes the whole neighborhood by storm. The
only thing puzzling her is the other new kid in her class. He's
grouchy - but Dyamonde's determined to get to the bottom of his
attitude and make a friend.
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Jazz Baby (Hardcover)
Lisa Wheeler; Illustrated by R.Gregory Christie
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With a simple clap of hands, an itty-bitty beboppin' baby gets his
whole family singing and dancing. Sister's hands snap. Granny sings
scat. Uncle soft-shoes--and Baby keeps the groove. Things start to
wind down when Mama and Daddy sing blues so sweet. Now a perfectly
drowsy baby sleeps deep, deep, "deep." Lisa Wheeler and R. Gregory
Christie pair up for a celebration of music, imagination, and big
families--but they know that even a jazz baby needs to snooze. "Oh
yeah."
Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that doesn't stop her from
making a place for herself in a jiffy. With her can-do attitude and
awesome brain power she takes the whole neighborhood by storm. The
only thing puzzling her is the other new kid in her class. He's
awfully grouchy - but Dyamonde's determined to get to the bottom of
his frowning attitude and make a friend. Readers will fall in love
with Dyamonde Daniel, the spirited star of a new series by Nikki
Grimes. With her upbeat, take-charge attitude, Dyamonde is a
character to cheer for - and the fun, accessible storytelling will
hook kids from the first page.
In a work with significant implications for present-day economic
reform in the Soviet Union, Paul Gregory examines Russian and
Soviet economic history prior to the installation of the
administrative command system. By drawing on basic economic
statistics from 1861 to the 1930s, Gregory's revisionist account
debunks a number of myths promulgated by historians in both the
East and the West. He demonstrates that the Russian economy under
the tsars performed much better than has previously been supposed;
the Russian economy and its financial institutions were integrated
into the world economy, allowing Russia to attract significant
foreign capital. Furthermore, he shows that Stalin's justifications
for the abandonment of the New Economic Policy in the late 1920s
were incorrect: the so-called crises of NEP were either fabricated
or the result of misguided economic thinking.
"Before Command" is the culmination of the author's lifelong
study of the economic history of Russia and the Soviet Union. In
convincing detail it describes little-known Russian and Soviet
successes with market capitalism, while it also shows the problems
inherent in a mixed system, such as the NEP, which seeks to combine
very strong elements of command with market resource
allocation.
Originally published in 1994.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
In Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of
Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina, Paul Gregory sheds light on how
the world's first socialist state went terribly wrong and why it
was likely to veer off course through the story of two of Stalin's
most prominent victims. A founding father of the Soviet Union at
the age of twenty-nine, Nikolai Bukharin was the editor of Pravda
and an intimate of Lenin's exile. (Lenin later dubbed him "the
favorite of the party.") But after Bukharin crossed swords with
Stalin over their differing visions of the world's first socialist
state, he paid the ultimate price with his life. His wife, Anna
Larina, the stepdaughter of a high Bolshevik official, spent much
of her life in prison camps and in exile after her husband's
execution.Drawn from Hoover Institution archival documents, the
story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina begins with the optimism
of the socialist revolution and then turns into a dark saga of
foreboding and terror as the game changes from political struggle
to physical survival. Told for the most part in the words of the
participants, it is, as Robert Conquest says in his foreword, "a
story told to show the horrors of fate, of personal mistreatment
and suffering by real people." It is also a story of courage and
cowardice, strength and weakness, misplaced idealism, missed
opportunities, bungling, and, above all, love.
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