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A People's History Of The Vietnam War The war in Indochina as seen by those who fought on both sides. This latest addition to The New Press's People's History series offers an incisive account of the war America lost, from the perspective of those who opposed it on both sides of the battlefront as well as on the homefront. The protagonists in Neale's history of the American War (as the Vietnamese refer to it) are common people struggling to shape the outcome of events unfolding on an international stage—American foot soldiers who increasingly opposed American military policy on the ground in Vietnam, local Vietnamese activists black history moorland press series spingarn and guerrillas fighting to build a just society, black history moorland press series spingarn and the American civilians who mobilized to bring the war to a halt. His narrative includes vivid, first-person commentary from the ordinary men black history moorland press series spingarn and women whose collective actions resulted in the defeat of the world's most powerful military machine. 11 black-and-white photographs. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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The Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement that spanned the years following the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 through the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 marked a watershed period for human rights in America. Julian Bond, former communications director of SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), notes in his introduction that the words'civil rights' summon up memories black history moorland press series spingarn and images in modern minds of grainy television footage of packed mass meetings, firehoses black history moorland press series spingarn and police dogs, of early-1960s peaceful protestors replaced over time by violent rioters, of soul-stirring oratory black history moorland press series spingarn and bold actions, of assassination black history moorland press series spingarn and death. The civil rights movement was also a movement of courage, of perseverance, of strength black history moorland press series spingarn and of triumph. Its eyewitnesses black history moorland press series spingarn and its many participants saw the Montgomery Bus Boycott, school integration, the freedom rides, the march on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech black history moorland press series spingarn and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Movement covers the key years 1954-1965 in detail. It also traces the roots of the civil rights movement to the 19th century in the years following the Emancipation Proclamation through the Reconstruction period, with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan black history moorland press series spingarn and the denial of basic rights to blacks. The Civil Rights Movement, the latest volume in Facts On File's acclaimed Eyewitness History series, provides hundreds of firsthand accounts of the movement - from letters, speeches, newspaper editorials black history moorland press series spingarn and press statements, which illustrate how historical events appeared to those who lived through them. Among the eyewitness testimonies included are those from Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X,President Lyndon Johnson, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks black history moorland press series spingarn and Ralph Abernathy. In addition to the firsthand accounts, each chapter provides an introductory essay black history moorland press series spingarn and a chronology of events. The book also includes such critical documents as the Formation of the NAACP, the Brown v. Board of Educat...
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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center - The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) is recognized as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of Howard University's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience.
Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters - Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters, written by Don Chin and illustrated by Sam Kieth, initially published by Eclipse Comics and later on by Parody Press, was the first unofficial spoof of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The series ran for nine issues from 1986 through 1989, with a four issue spin-off series, Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters in 3-D which ran for four issues in 1986.
Black Hole (comics) - Black Hole is a graphic novel written and illustrated by Charles Burns. It was originally published as a 12-issue comic book series between 1995 and 2005 by Kitchen Sink Press and Fantagraphics, and then released in a compiled hardcover edition by Pantheon Books in 2005.
Black Projects, White Knights - Black Projects, White Knights is a collection of short stories written by Kage Baker and published by small-press science fiction publisher Golden Gryphon, assembling various short stories set in the universe of The Company series, which comprises the bulk of her published fiction. Almost all of the stories contained within this volume have been published previously in the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction, with the remainder being previously unpublished.
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