This book traces the life of the author who was born in a rural obscured Alabama village call Nymph, where abject poverty was met head on with unrelenting love. One of 12 children, this author waded through systemic racism and seemingly insurmountable odds to become the third highest ranking official in the regional city of Mobile, AL. In his book, Richardson set out to prove once and for all that there is but one race of people on the face of the earth, the human race; and that skin or any other color has absolutely no value in itself. He more than proved that point. As an elected official, Richardson offered valuable advice to those seeking to be elected as well as for those already holding office. As world traveler, Richardson shares that experience with his readers as well as the art of negotiating and trading in a global marketplace. Readers can relive life in a rural community and gain experience from a village that survived slavery and it's aftermath and produced citizens that excelled to worldwide pro potion. The author credits his family for providing the inspiration he needed to turn every obstacle, rock or boulder into stepping stones toward a brighter future, for himself and all others. He also credits many others who's ethnicity was different from his, with aiding he and his family in their struggle to survive the pains of poverty. Through it all, Richardson makes it clear that he holds absolutely no animosity toward anyone, past or present; that life, with all of it's twists and turns, left him with no permanent scars, only love for every living human being. His title was intended to show how, with the help of God, his family and many others, he was able to leave Nymph, settle in Mobile, AL, and represent that city around the world. He makes the point that God has placed in each of us the ability to rise above any present or future circumstance. You will not read his book and not be affected.
This revision of the acclaimed and widely assigned Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass’s great autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself includes key examples of literary and cultural analyses that have engaged scholars over the last three decades. This Norton Critical Edition includes: - Frederick Douglass’s 1845 Narrative, the most influential autobiography of its kind. - A preface and explanatory footnotes by William L. Andrews and William S. McFeely. - Contemporary perspectives by Douglass, Margaret Fuller, James Monroe Gregory, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. - Essays by William L. Andrews, William S. McFeely, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Deborah E. McDowell, Houston A. Baker, Jr., Jeannine Marie DeLombard, and Robert D. Richardson, Jr. - A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
The Genesis And Exodus Of Now is an eye witness true account of the struggle of blacks in Mobile, AL to be free, from 1968 to 1974. This freedom movement was called Neighborhood Organized Workers (NOW) and was led by two brave fearless leaders, Noble C. Beasley and James H. Finley. The author of this book, Fredrick Douglas Richardson, Jr. was apart of NOW and was himself caught up in the eye of the vicious storm of opposition against extending freedom to Blacks in Mobile, AL at all cost. The Mobile story is really an American story. It is a story of the powerless confronting the bound and determined powerful, head on, in their nonviolent demand for freedom and opportunity. Might was used to deny rights. Beasley and Finley were determined, in the face of insurmountable opposition, to lead the people of color, in Mobile, AL, to freedom. This book will show that the strategies used by NOW preempted and Civil Rights organization in America. Richardson describes the turn of events daily in this book, and named those who joined those on the side of injustice. Like Nelson Mandela, Beasley eventually was arrested by the Feds on a false drug conspiracy charge, sentenced to life, without parole, served a total of 28 years as a political prisoner, but thank God he is free today. This book details Beasley's life and that of Dr. James Finley. Herein is a literary snapshot of an American city fighting to preserve the past, while it's minority citizens refused to except nothing less than freedom. The Mobile, AL story is an attest to the progress made in America regarding inclusion. However, the Mobile story never made the front pages of national news papers because the freedom movement in Mobile started after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This book will document this movement and prove the freedom struggle in Mobile was no less intense. This book should be a required reading for every student in middle school and above and indeed every adult. There are few published eyewitness accounts to the actual Civil Rights struggle. This book is one and is hereby a rarity. It is a powerful moving account of an era America refuses to embrace, in her text books. But no one reading this book can ignore the value of Richardson's eyewitness account of America at her worse. On the other hand, you can't deny the tremendous progress this city and nation have made, in embracing diversity. This book is a handbook to the Civil Rights struggle.
At the signing of the Magna Charta, twenty-five men, representing the barons, signed as sureties of the baronial performance, in effect pledging the barons to fulfill their obligations to the Crown in accordance with the terms of the Great Charter. Of these twenty-five sureties only seventeen have identified descendants. Each of the seventeen is represented in the celebrated "Magna Charta Sureties," which traces their connections--line by line and generation by generation--to approximately 160 American colonists. Eight years have passed since the publication of the last edition of this work, however, and in the interval a great many additions, corrections, and revisions have accumulated. Brought to a very high standard by the unremitting efforts of its editor, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., this fifth edition incorporates new lines, corrects errors in existing lines, adds recently discovered material, and supplies references where they had previously been omitted. The result is a reliable and authoritative collection of interlocking pedigrees which carry the ancestry of some 160 American colonists back to the thirteenth century. With the possible exception of Weis's "Ancestral Roots" (also published by Genealogical Publishing Co.), this is probably the very best work ever written on the pre-colonial ancestry of American colonists.
The shift in temporal modalities of Romantic Theatre was the consequence of internal as well as external developments: internally, the playwright was liberated from the old imperative of “Unity of Time” and the expectation that the events of the play must not exceed the hours of a single day; externally, the new social and cultural conformance to the time-keeping schedules of labour and business that had become more urgent with the industrial revolution. In reviewing the theatre of the Romantic era, this monograph draws attention to the ways in which theatre reflected the pervasive impact of increased temporal urgency in social and cultural behaviour. The contribution this book makes to the study of drama in the early nineteenth century is a renewed emphasis on time as a prominent element in Romantic dramaturgy, and a reappraisal of the extensive experimentation on how time functioned.
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