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My Song is My Testimony

Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton

By: Bennie Lucille Williams,Jacquelyn Benton

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My Song is My Testimony

Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton

By: Bennie Lucille Williams,Jacquelyn Benton

“I see that as such a powerful testimony, since you’re not just singing a song but also telling a story, and it’s your own story.” Bennie Lucille Williams was born in Marshall, Texas—a city split not into two, she would argue, but into three. First, of course, there was racial segregation, but growing up with dark skin Bennie saw a second split within her own black community: a split between those who were lighter-skinned and those who looked like Bennie. There, sitting at the feet of former slaves, Bennie learned the songs that would carry her through her life. “Dem songs,” is what the woman she knew as Aunt Clay called spirituals they sang to her, and those songs would first carry her into music and then into teaching. Bennie recalls working with black, white, and later desegregated church choirs, teaching school choirs with forced busing mandates, and directing public performances. Woven into those stories are the loves and heartbreaks of a vivid and compassionate woman’s life—bittersweet at times, but never half-hearted. Bennie’s love for her music and for her students touched lives from Marshall to Dallas to Denver. Later, when she lay at home with a Do Not Resuscitate sign on her front door, she received calls from former students whose lives she had touched decades before, returning to her the love she had always given them.

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FriesenPress

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1039199542

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9781039199545

Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma

Second Edition

By: Kristina L. Southwell,Jacquelyn Slater Reese

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Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma

Second Edition

By: Kristina L. Southwell,Jacquelyn Slater Reese

Begun in 1927 by University of Oklahoma history professor Edward Everett Dale, the Western History Collections gathers and preserves rare research materials for scholars in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history, and the history of the American West. This guide has been compiled to make the photographs in the collections more accessible. The second edition adds descriptions of 165 new collections comprising 159,000 photographs. The 826 photograph collections that this guide thus details encompass Native American culture; frontier and pioneer life in Oklahoma and Indian territories; Wild West shows; the range cattle industry; the petroleum industry; and gunfighters, outlaws, and lawmen. New additions include the Lucille Clough Collection of 1,800 prints, postcards, and stereograph cards of American Indians and Alaska Natives, and First Peoples of Canada.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806145951

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9780806145952

Racial Wellness

A Guide to Liberatory Healing for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

By: Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah

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Racial Wellness

A Guide to Liberatory Healing for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

By: Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah

A guide and workbook centered on self-care, healing, and empowerment for Black, Indigenous, and people of color—from racial wellness visionary and designer Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah. As a society, we rarely talk about how racism affects the holistic health of Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Author and healing-informed designer Jacquelyn Ogorchukwu Iyamah refers to racism as “the multifaceted abuser” because of the ways it affects the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing of BIPOC. Whether these communities are experiencing microaggressions or overt racism, they are constantly forced to practice resistance. Using her background in social welfare and interaction design, Iyamah seeks to stimulate revolutionary healing for communities of color, shifting the conversation from racial trauma to racial wellness. This powerful book helps BIPOC understand, reflect, and cope with racial trauma. Divided into five sections—emotional wellness, mental wellness, physical wellness, spiritual wellness, and our interconnected wellness—Iyamah lends readers a gentle hand on their journey toward racial wellness by providing ways to heal on individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels, while encouraging deeper reflection through insightful journal prompts. Filled with uplifting affirmations, tender reminders, love letters, and helpful graphics sprinkled throughout, Racial Wellness is as informative as it is comforting, offering communities of color the opportunity to rest, rehabilitate, and rebuild.

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Clarkson Potter

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0593579356

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9780593579350

Building Resilient Migration Systems in the Mediterranean Region

Lessons from COVID-19

By: Mauro Testaverde,Jacquelyn Pavilon

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Building Resilient Migration Systems in the Mediterranean Region

Lessons from COVID-19

By: Mauro Testaverde,Jacquelyn Pavilon

For thousands of years, migration has been a source of social and economic well-being for people living on different shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Whether through higher earnings for migrants, access to labor for receiving countries, or remittances for sending communities, migration has been an important driver of development in the Mediterranean region. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has severely disrupted this complex web of movements, raising questions about whether migration will continue to be an important driver of the region’s well-being. As time passed, it became clear that the drivers of migration are so strong that mobility restrictions can only reduce movements, not halt them entirely. Building Resilient Migration Systems in the Mediterranean Region: Lessons from COVID-19 presents evidence on the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on mobility in the region to inform policy responses that can help countries restart migration safely and better respond to future shocks. While some of the challenges that emerged during the pandemic are specific to public health crises, others are common to different types of shocks, including those related to economic, conflict, or climate-related factors. To inform this reform process, this book suggests a set of actions that can help Mediterranean countries to maximize the benefits of migration for all people living in the region, while at the same time ensuring the sustainability of migration flows. As a whole, these proposed policy actions point to a vision of migration resilience that, even during crises, can address key labor shortages, keep both migrant and native populations safer, sustain household incomes, and ameliorate blows to economic growth. The COVID-19 pandemic has created momentum for policy reforms. Whether this crisis can illuminate the way toward better adapting migration systems to future crises will depend on learning its lessons.

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World Bank Publications

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1464818568

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Like a Family

The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

By: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall,James L. Leloudis,Robert R. Korstad,Mary Murphy,Lu Ann Jones

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Like a Family

The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World

By: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall,James L. Leloudis,Robert R. Korstad,Mary Murphy,Lu Ann Jones

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. "The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.--Studs Terkel "Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.--Choice

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UNC Press Books

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0807882941

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9780807882948

Visions of the Manifestations Poetically Speaking to One

The Vision

By: Jacquelyn Rice Dunbar

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Visions of the Manifestations Poetically Speaking to One

The Vision

By: Jacquelyn Rice Dunbar

I would like to first and foremost, thank god for giving me the talent to speak poetically speak real life issues encountered daily with others, with the intentions to reach out and help anyone, no matter where they are in life. Each one of the poems, that you are about read, can be related to each of you by personal experience or someone else you know may have known went through it. I believe, we are too quick to point out faultless blames amongst others, but yet offer in helpful suggestions to help and uplift another. No one, has lived a perfect life or even close. However, some of us would like to believe that we have, but truly it does not exist. It is a matter, what you put into your own lives, that will determine, what the outcome will be. So, as each of you read the various passages, I truly believe, it will help you along your way to the next.

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144905627X

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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

By: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

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Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

By: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Winner of the 2020 PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, the 2020 Summersell Prize, a 2020 PROSE Award, and a Plutarch Award finalist “The word befitting this work is ‘masterpiece.’ ” —Paula J. Giddings, author of Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin were raised in a culture of white supremacy. While Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters sought their fortunes in the North, reinventing themselves as radical thinkers whose literary works and organizing efforts brought the nation’s attention to issues of region, race, and labor. National Humanities Award–winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters, tracing the wounds and unsung victories of the past. Hall revives a buried tradition of Southern expatriation and progressivism; explores the lost, revolutionary zeal of the early twentieth century; and muses on the fraught ties of sisterhood. Grounded in decades of research, the family’s private papers, and interviews with Katharine and Grace, Sisters and Rebels unfolds an epic narrative of American history through the lives of three Southern women.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039335573X

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9780393355734

Whole-brain Thinking

Working from Both Sides of the Brain to Achieve Peak Job Performance

By: Jacquelyn Wonder

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Whole-brain Thinking

Working from Both Sides of the Brain to Achieve Peak Job Performance

By: Jacquelyn Wonder

Wonder's seminars on whole-brain thinking have been enthusiastically received by such corporations as IBM, Kodak, and Dow Corning. Partly through her teachings, American business is discovering that peak job performance requires not only logic and efficiency but also intuition and creativity--in other words, both the left and right sides of the brain. Illustrated.

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0688116175

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9780688116170

Matilda's Story

A Biographical Novel

By: Jacquelyn Hanson

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Matilda's Story

A Biographical Novel

By: Jacquelyn Hanson

Matilda's Story is a biographical novel based on 30 years in the life of Matilda Randolph, a pioneer woman born in Illinois in 1836 who migrated with her family to Kansas in 1854. There she married and bore four children while the conflict raged around her. In 1864, as a young widow with three small children, she traversed the Oregon/California Trail to California. The book has been well-researched. Those who enjoy authentic tales of pioneer days will appreciate Matilda's Story."--Amazon.com

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J & J Book Sales

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0963726544

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My Song is My Testimony

Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton

By: Bennie Lucille Williams,Jacquelyn Benton

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Autobiography of Bennie Lucille Williams As Told to Jacquelyn Benton

By: Bennie Lucille Williams,Jacquelyn Benton

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Visions of the Manifestations Poetically Speaking to One

The Vision

By: Jacquelyn Rice Dunbar

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By: Jacquelyn Rice Dunbar

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My Song is My Testimony

My Song is My Testimony

Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma

Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma

Racial Wellness

Racial Wellness

Building Resilient Migration Systems in the Mediterranean Region

Building Resilient Migration Systems in the Mediterranean Region

Like a Family

Like a Family

Visions of the Manifestations Poetically Speaking to One

Visions of the Manifestations Poetically Speaking to One

Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America

Whole-brain Thinking

Whole-brain Thinking

Matilda's Story

Matilda's Story

My Song is My Testimony

My Song is My Testimony

Visions of the Manifestations Poetically Speaking to One

Visions of the Manifestations Poetically Speaking to One

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