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Daddy Was a Number Runner

A Novel

By: Louise Meriwether

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This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly). Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it’s both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved “daddy” of the title indeed becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francie’s brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is already in a gang. Francie is a dreamer, too, but there are risks in everything from going to the movies to walking down the block, and her pragmatism eventually outweighs her hope; “We was all poor and black and apt to stay that way, and that was that.” First published in 1970, Daddy Was a Number Runner is one of the seminal novels of the black experience in America. The New York Times Book Review proclaimed it “a most important novel.”

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The Feminist Press at CUNY

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1558617086

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Fragments of the Ark

A Novel

By: Louise Meriwether

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Fragments of the Ark

A Novel

By: Louise Meriwether

Fragments of the Ark follows the exploits of runaway slave Peter Mango, his family, and a band of fellow escaped slaves as they commandeer a Confederate gunboat out of Charleston harbor and deliver it to the Union navy. Mango is made captain of this liberated vessel and commands its crew through the duration of the war. He also travels to Washington to meet President Lincoln, adding his voice to others trying to persuade the president to allow black men to enlist in the armed forces. After the war Mango bought a home from his former master and became a political organizer for voting rights. Eventually he was elected a delegate to South Carolina's state convention to rewrite its constitution. Based on the inspirational life of Robert Smalls, Fragments of the Ark explores the American Civil War through the eyes of its most deeply wounded souls. Against this chaotic backdrop, the novel sweeps readers into Mango's heroic quest for the most basic of human rights—a safe haven to nurture a family bound by love and not fear, and the freedom to be the master of his own life.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611172837

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Daddy Was a Number Runner

A Novel

By: Louise Meriwether

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A Novel

By: Louise Meriwether

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The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls

By: Louise Meriwether

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The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls

By: Louise Meriwether

The true story of an enslaved African American man who escaped to freedom and became a military and political leader Robert Smalls, born a slave in 1839 in Beaufort, South Carolina, gained fame as an African American hero of the American Civil War. The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls tells the inspirational story of Small's life as a slave, his boyhood dream of freedom, and his bold and daring plan as a young man to commandeer a Confederate gunboat from Charleston Harbor and escape with fifteen fellow slaves and family members. Smalls joined the Union Navy and rose to the rank of captain and became the first African American to command a U.S. service ship. After the war Smalls returned to Beaufort, bought the home of his former master, and began a long career in state and national politics. This new edition of The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls, originally published in 1971, features Louise Meriwether's original narrative, now illustrated by the colorful paintings of renowned Southern artist Jonathan Green.

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1611178568

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By: Louise Meriwether

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By: Louise Meriwether

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Touched by Fire

The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer

By: Louise Barnett

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Touched by Fire

The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer

By: Louise Barnett

A comprehensive and balanced biography of the controversial George Armstrong Custer.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803262663

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9780803262669

The Green Breast of the New World

Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction

By: Louise H. Westling

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The Green Breast of the New World

Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction

By: Louise H. Westling

In searching American literary landscapes for what they can reveal about our attitudes toward nature and gender, The Green Breast of the New World considers symbolic landscapes in twentieth-century American fiction, the characters who inhabit those landscapes, and the gendered traditions that can influence the figuration of both of these fictional elements. In this century, says Louise H. Westling, American literary responses to landscape and nature have been characterized by a puzzling mix of eroticism and misogyny, celebration and mourning, and reverence and disregard. Focusing on problems of gender conflict and imperialist nostalgia, The Green Breast of the New World addresses this ambivalence. Westling begins with a "deep history" of literary landscapes, looking back to the archaic Mediterranean/Mesopotamian traditions that frame European and American symbolic figurations of humans in the land. Drawing on sources as ancient as the Sumerian Hymns to Innana and the Epic of Gilgamesh, she reveals a tradition of male heroic identity grounded in an antagonistic attitude toward the feminized earth and nature. This identity recently has been used to mask a violent destruction of wilderness and indigenous peoples in the fictions of progress that have shaped our culture. Examining the midwestern landscapes of Willa Cather's Jim Burden and Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams, and the Mississippi Delta of William Faulkner's Thomas Sutpen and Isaac McCaslin and Eudora Welty's plantation families and small-town dwellers, Westling shows that these characters all participate in a cultural habit of gendering the landscape as female and then excusing their mistreatment of it by retreating into a nostalgia that erases their real motives, displaces responsibility, and takes refuge in attitudes of self-pitying adoration.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820320803

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9780820320809

Annie Montague Alexander

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek

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Annie Montague Alexander

By: Louise Chipley Slavicek

Tells the life story of naturalist and museum patron Annie Montague Alexander, describing her childhood in Hawaii, her initiation to field collecting at a relatively late age, and the forty years she spent amassing specimens for the two museums she founded at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Infobase Publishing

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0791077101

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9780791077108

Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

By: Louise Erdrich

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Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country

By: Louise Erdrich

An account of Louise Erdrich's trip through the lakes and islands of southern Ontario with her 18-month old baby and the baby's father, an Ojibwe spiritual leader and guide"--

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National Geographic Books

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0792257197

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North Dakota

By: Melissa McDaniel,Sara Louise Kras

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North Dakota

By: Melissa McDaniel,Sara Louise Kras

Celebrate the richness and diversity of the United States of America in this exciting series.

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Marshall Cavendish

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0761447334

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9780761447337

Sovereign Schools

How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation

By: Martha Louise Hipp

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Sovereign Schools

How Shoshones and Arapahos Created a High School on the Wind River Reservation

By: Martha Louise Hipp

Sovereign Schools tells the epic story of one of the early battles for reservation public schools. For centuries indigenous peoples in North America have struggled to preserve their religious practices and cultural knowledge by educating younger generations but have been thwarted by the deeply corrosive effects of missionary schools, federal boarding schools, Bureau of Indian Affairs reservation schools, and off-reservation public schools. Martha Louise Hipp describes the successful fight through sustained Native community activism for public school sovereignty during the late 1960s and 1970s on the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes’ Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Parents and students at Wind River experienced sustained educational discrimination in their school districts, particularly at the high schools located in towns bordering the reservation, not least when these public schools failed to incorporate history and culture of the Shoshones and Arapahos into the curriculum. Focusing on one of the most significant issues of indigenous activism of the era, Sovereign Schools tells the story of how Eastern Shoshones and Northern Arapahos asserted tribal sovereignty in the face of immense local, state, and federal government pressure, even from the Nixon administration itself, which sent mixed signals to reservations by promoting indigenous “self-determination” while simultaneously impounding federal education funds for Native peoples. With support from the Coalition of Indian Controlled School Boards and the Episcopal Church, the Wind River peoples overcame federal and local entities to reclaim their reservation schools and educational sovereignty.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496213645

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9781496213648

Letters from Langston

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond

By: Langston Hughes,Evelyn Louise Crawford,MaryLouise Patterson

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Letters from Langston

From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond

By: Langston Hughes,Evelyn Louise Crawford,MaryLouise Patterson

Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, HughesÕs poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized worldÑone without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression.

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Univ of California Press

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0520285336

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9780520285330

A Colony of Prairie Dogs

By: Richard Spilsbury,Louise Spilsbury

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A Colony of Prairie Dogs

By: Richard Spilsbury,Louise Spilsbury

Discover the fascinating life and habits of prairie dogs and see how their colony works.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1403446938

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Connecting the Coasts

The Race to Build the Transcontinental Railroad

By: Norma Louise Lewis

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Connecting the Coasts

The Race to Build the Transcontinental Railroad

By: Norma Louise Lewis

Imagine sitting in a basket dangling thousands of feet above the ground drilling a hole into the side of mountain. Then you have to stuff that hole with dynamite and get out of the way before it explodes. This dangerous work was just part of the job for the men who built the Transcontinental Railroad. Lively language, historical photos and illustrations, and primary accounts help readers understand the dangers the workers faced every day while building the Transcontinental Railroad. Meets Common Core critical thinking standards, and provides strong ties to social studies standards on westward expansion.

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Capstone

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1496659279

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Minnesota on the Map

A Historical Atlas

By: David A. Lanegran,Carol Louise Urness

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Minnesota on the Map

A Historical Atlas

By: David A. Lanegran,Carol Louise Urness

This magnificent volume brings together for the first time stunning but rarely seen maps of Minnesota through five centuries, showing what happened in the past and what was planned for the future.

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Minnesota Historical Society Press

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0873515935

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9780873515931

Bringing Learning to Life

The Reggio Approach to Early Childhood Education

By: Louise Boyd Cadwell

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Bringing Learning to Life

The Reggio Approach to Early Childhood Education

By: Louise Boyd Cadwell

Building on her enormously popular book, Bringing Reggio Emilia Home, Louise Cadwell helps American educators understand what it means to use ideas from the Reggio Approach in their classrooms. In new and dynamic ways, Cadwell once again takes readers inside the day-to-day practice of a group of early childhood educators. This time she describes the growth and evolution of the work in the St. Louis Reggio Collaborative over the past 10 years.

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Teachers College Press

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0807742961

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9780807742969

Superlatives USA

The Largest, Smallest, Longest, Shortest, and Wackiest Sites in America

By: Melissa Louise Jones

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Superlatives USA

The Largest, Smallest, Longest, Shortest, and Wackiest Sites in America

By: Melissa Louise Jones

A collection of superlative facts about the U.S. includes the biggest tricycle, sunniest city, fastest glacier, most secure prison, biggest ball of twine, largest door, smallest church, and more.

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Capital Books

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1931868859

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9781931868853

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