Samuel Morris

Author: Lindley Baldwin
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
ISBN: 9780871239501
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
The extraordinary story of the young African who came to be called "The Apostle of Simple Faith."While most missionary biographies detail the lives of Western missionaries, this is the story of the African missionary that God called to the United States when slavery and segregation were a way of life. Previously published under the title The March of Faith, this book details the moving life story of Samuel Morris.After a miraculous escape from certain death during the ravages of intertribal warfare in Liberia, Africa, Kaboo was converted to Christ by Methodist missionaries and baptized under the name Samuel Morris. Traveling to America for pastoral training in the late 1880's, his trip was a missionary voyage in itself when several seamen were lead to Christ through his godly life. At Taylor University his example of faith made him a leader among the students and a challenge to the faulty.An unforgettable biography which shows Christ's love felling all racial barriers.

Van Gogh and God

Author: Cliff Edwards
Publisher: Loyola Press
ISBN: 9780829406214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Explore the depth of this brilliant and tortured artist's spirituality and find a new Van Gogh--philosopher of life, unorthodox theologian, and determined seeker of global spirituality.

Boys Into Men

Author: Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Publisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
The authors, two noted psychologists who are parents themselves, provide simple yet effective strategies for problem-solving, improving communication, and instilling a positive racial identity in African-American boys.

Quisling

Author: Oddvar K. Hoidal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 958

Book Description
A biography of Vidkun Quisling, focusing on his role in the political life of Norway before and during World War II. The racism of his National Union Party was directed mainly against Jews, with systematic attacks in the party press. Despite the small number of Jews in Norway, Quisling maintained that they were a threat because of their Bolshevik connections and their possession of the world's wealth, stating that the Jews wanted to incorporate Norway into a Marxist world-state under their domination. He attacked a proposal to allow Jewish refugees to settle in Norway in the 1930s. Quisling conspired with the Nazis to occupy Norway and served as Minister President under their authority. Incarceration of Jews and confiscation of their property began in 1941, and deportations in the fall of 1942; most of those deported died in Auschwitz. At Quisling's trial for treason after the war, one of the counts of the indictment was that he contributed to the death of Jews by encouraging their deportation to Nazi extermination camps. He was executed in October 1945.

To Make Our World Anew

Author: Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195139453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 698

Book Description
Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans experienced it. We begin in Africa, with the growth of the slave trade, and follow the forced migration of what is estimated to be between ten and twenty million people, witnessing the terrible human cost of slavery in the colonies of England and Spain. We read of the Haitian Revolution, which ended victoriously in 1804 with the birth of the first independent black nation in the New World, and of slave rebellions and resistance in the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. There are vivid accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction years, the backlash of notorious "Jim Crow" laws and mob lynchings, and the founding of key black educational institutions. The contributors also trace the migration of blacks to the major cities, the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, the hardships of the Great Depression and the service of African Americans in World War II, the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and '60s, and the emergence of today's black middle class. From Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Louis Farrakhan, To Make Our World Anew is an unforgettable portrait of a people.

Brutal Mandate

Author: Allard K. Lowenstein
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017044720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Lillian Carter

Author: Grant Hayter-Menzies
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476619336
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Written with the cooperation of President Jimmy Carter and his family, this book provides an intimate glimpse inside the life of the woman who--as nurse, mother and social justice activist in segregated southwest Georgia--made a lifelong habit of breaking the rules defining a woman's place in and out of the home and the status of blacks in society. As the only white nurse in her rural community who cared for black families, as a 68-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer in 1960s India, as a fearless supporter of civil rights and as a First Mother unlike any other, Lillian Carter showed how individual courage, conviction and compassion can make a difference. Drawing on interviews with friends and colleagues, members of the Plains, Georgia, black community, Peace Corps Volunteers who trained with her, White House insiders and key players in the civil rights movement, as well as letters, documents and photographs never before made public, this book captures the essence of the woman the press dubbed "Rose Kennedy without the hair dye" and "First Mother of the world."

Herbert Chapman

Author: Stephen Studd
Publisher: Souvenir Press
ISBN: 9780285634169
Category : Soccer managers
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description

Mary Church Terrell

Author: Cookie Lommel
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
ISBN: 9780766021167
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Traces the life and achievements of the black civil rights worker whose greatest accomplishment, the intergration of restaurants in Washington, D.C., came when she was nearly nine years old.

The Man from South Sudan

Author: Deng Atak Ken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646963570
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
My name is Deng Atak Ken. I was born in Aweil, Sudan in January 1981before the separation of South Sudan on July 2011. This book tells of the struggles, hardship and triumphs of myself and my family growing up in South Sudan. I witnessed our family as strong and awesome until the second Sudanese civil war, which started in April 1983 and reached our State in North Bahr el Ghazal, particularly Aweil North. The civil war was between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan people, s Liberation Army. It was virtually a continuation of the first Sudanese civil was from 1955 to 1992.