This is a story based on real life events about the life of a onetime Cleveland Irish gangster who fought the Mafia. Born and put into an orphanage, Bob Murphy grew up in the Cleveland metro area in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's when the city was controlled by the Mafia and was greatly divided ethnically. At seven years old, he learned that he was adopted, a truth which haunted him until he found his real family. A tough street fighter, he worked as a bouncer for the Mafia owned night clubs, was a body guard for top-ranking union officials and was the leader of the Northside Irish Gang. He found himself in some deadly situations but miraculously always came out unscathed, as though he was protected by God. Bob was born again after a visit from Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. After the visit, he had an epiphany from God to join the fight against abortion and to do so he became heavily involved in politics. Incredibly, he found politicians to be just as deadly and corrupt as the Mafia. He often found himself in situations in which God would use him to give messages to people that were troubled, looking for answers, or needed help making an important decision; a proof that God uses all types of people for his purpose.
Help little ones build self-esteem and self-confidence in both English and Spanish. This English-Spanish bilingual book of sweet, simple affirmations for children helps them respect their bodies, acknowledge their needs, name their feelings, and build their self-esteem. Just Because I Am/Solo porque soy yo invites little ones to love, accept, and feel good about themselves exactly as they are. A section for adults includes activities and discussion questions in both languages.
From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C. activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for home rule. Amid the upheavals of the 1960s, they gave expression to the frustrations of black residents and wrestled for control of their city. Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Pearlman narrates this struggle for self-determination in the nation's capital. She captures the transition from black protest to black political power under the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations and against the backdrop of local battles over the War on Poverty and the War on Crime. Through intense clashes over funds and programming, Washington residents pushed for greater participatory democracy and community control. However, the anticrime apparatus built by the Johnson and Nixon administrations curbed efforts to achieve true home rule. As Pearlman reveals, this conflict laid the foundation for the next fifty years of D.C. governance, connecting issues of civil rights, law and order, and urban renewal.
People out of Place reshapes our understanding of the 1960s by telling a previously unknown story about often overlooked criminal laws prohibiting vagrancy. As Beats, hippies, war protesters, Communists, racial minorities, civil rights activists, prostitutes, single women, poor people, and sexual minorities challenged vagrancy laws, the laws became a shared constitutional target for clashes over radically different visions of the nation's future"--
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