In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical alternative to southern conservative politics. In Days of Hope, Patricia Sullivan traces the rise and fall of this movement. Using oral interviews with participants in this movement as well as documentary sources, she demonstrates that the New Deal era inspired a coalition of liberals, black activists, labor organizers, and Communist Party workers who sought to secure the New Deal's social and economic reforms by broadening the base of political participation in the South. From its origins in a nationwide campaign to abolish the poll tax, the initiative to expand democracy in the South developed into a regional drive to register voters and elect liberals to Congress. The NAACP, the CIO Political Action Committee, and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare coordinated this effort, which combined local activism with national strategic planning. Although it dramatically increased black voter registration and led to some electoral successes, the movement ultimately faltered, according to Sullivan, because the anti-Communist fervor of the Cold War and a militant backlash from segregationists fractured the coalition and marginalized southern radicals. Nevertheless, the story of this campaign invites a fuller consideration of the possibilities and constraints that have shaped the struggle for racial democracy in America since the 1930s.
A “civil rights Hall of Fame” (Kirkus) that was published to remarkable praise in conjunction with the NAACP's Centennial Celebration, Lift Every Voice is a momentous history of the struggle for civil rights told through the stories of men and women who fought inescapable racial barriers in the North as well as the South—keeping the promise of democracy alive from the earliest days of the twentieth century to the triumphs of the 1950s and 1960s. Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACP's activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. In the critical post-war era, following a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow. A sweeping and dramatic story woven deep into the fabric of American history—”history that helped shape America's consciousness, if not its soul” (Booklist) — Lift Every Voice offers a timeless lesson on how people, without access to the traditional levers of power, can create change under seemingly impossible odds.
Why are states with tremendous military might so often unable to attain their objectives when they use force against weaker adversaries? Who Wins? by Patricia L. Sullivan argues that the key to understanding strategic success in war lies in the nature of the political objectives states pursue through the use of military force.
My joy, my tears, are sincere. Is this girl real? I really like being a girl. I don’t miss the male me. I don’t miss the him and he. Away from him, I’m finally free. Since birth, Lukcia Patricia Sullivan lived a false existence first as a boy, and then as a man. What no one knew is that she desperately wanted to be a girl. But as she grew, she learned that this desire had to be hidden and never discussed. Still, she knew she was a girl in heart and mind, and approached life with the emotional sensitivities of a female—until she was finally able to transition at age sixty-seven. In a soul-searching collection of poems originally penned to maintain her sanity, courage, and to survive the challenge of male-to-female transition in her hometown of twenty-three years, Sullivan lyrically explores a lifetime struggling with an unfulfilled want, lost and false loves, and the unwavering hope that she would somehow find her way to her true self. While capturing the pain of unresolved gender dysphoria, Sullivan’s poems also provide uplifting encouragement to others in transition that happiness is on the other side of tears. Talking to Myself is a volume of poetry that reflects on a transgender woman’s courageous path to personal fulfillment and her true self.
A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960sÑand shows how many of todayÕs issues can be traced back to that pivotal time. History, race, and politics converged in the 1960s in ways that indelibly changed America. In Justice Rising, a landmark reconsideration of Robert KennedyÕs life and legacy, Patricia Sullivan draws on government files, personal papers, and oral interviews to reveal how he grasped the moment to emerge as a transformational leader. When protests broke out across the South, the young attorney general confronted escalating demands for racial justice. What began as a political problem soon became a moral one. In the face of vehement pushback from Southern Democrats bent on massive resistance, he put the weight of the federal government behind school desegregation and voter registration. Bobby KennedyÕs youthful energy, moral vision, and capacity to lead created a momentum for change. He helped shape the 1964 Civil Rights Act but knew no law would end racism. When the Watts uprising brought calls for more aggressive policing, he pushed back, pointing to the root causes of urban unrest: entrenched poverty, substandard schools, and few job opportunities. RFK strongly opposed the military buildup in Vietnam, but nothing was more important to him than Òthe revolution within our gates, the struggle of the American Negro for full equality and full freedom.Ó On the night of Martin Luther KingÕs assassination, KennedyÕs anguished appeal captured the hopes of a turbulent decade: ÒIn this difficult time for the United States it is perhaps well to ask what kind of nation we are and what direction we want to move in.Ó It is a question that remains urgent and unanswered.
Virginia Foster Durr was a monumental champion for civil rights. A white southerner who returned to Alabama in 1951 after twenty years in Washington, she was horrified to revisit the racism of her childhood. She wrote hundreds of letters - humorous, sharp and observant - to her friends up north, among them Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Hugo Black and C. Vann Woodward. Published on the 100th anniversary of Durr's birth, her letters offer a distinctive glimpse into the day-to-day battles for racial justice at a pivotal moment in American history.
Patricia L. Sullivan argues that the key to understanding strategic success in war lies in the nature of the political objectives states pursue through the use of military force.
The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusing on the persistent problems of filth and the frustration of generations of reformers unable to clean their cities, Patricia Strach and Kathleen S. Sullivan tell a story of dirty politics and administrative innovation that made rapidly expanding American cities livable. The solutions that professionals recommended to rid cities of overflowing waste cans, litter-filled privies, and animal carcasses were largely ignored by city governments. When the efforts of sanitarians, engineers, and reformers failed, public officials turned to the habits and tools of corruption as well as to gender and racial hierarchies. Corruption often provided the political will for public officials to establish garbage collection programs. Effective waste collection involves translating municipal imperatives into new habits and arrangements in homes and other private spaces. To change domestic habits, officials relied on gender hierarchy to make the women of the white, middle-class households in charge of sanitation. When public and private trash cans overflowed, racial and ethnic prejudices were harnessed to single out scavengers, garbage collectors, and neighborhoods by race. These early informal efforts were slowly incorporated into formal administrative processes that created the public-private sanitation systems that prevail in most American cities today. The Politics of Trash locates these hidden resources of governments to challenge presumptions about the formal mechanisms of governing and recovers the presence of residents at the margins, whose experiences can be as overlooked as garbage collection itself. This consideration of municipal garbage collection reveals how political development often relies on undemocratic means with long-term implications for further inequality. Focusing on the resources that cleaned American cities also shows the tenuous connection between political development and modernization.
This book presents new information on the export trade, patronage, artistic collaboration, and the small-scale shop traditions that defined early Rhode Island craftsmanship. This stunning volume features more than 200 illustrations of beautifully constructed and carved objects—including chairs, high chests, bureau tables, and clocks—that demonstrate the superb workmanship and artistic skill of the state’s furniture makers.
Whether you've ever been to church, read the Bible, or know about Jesus, you've probably had thoughts about God. You may have wondered whether God exists or what God is like. We get to know humans through personal experience, what others say about them, or what people say about themselves. The same is true with God.This book examines stories in the Old Testament to help us catch a glimpse of this God--and how God interacted with humans from the moment life began until Jesus came on the earthly scene. So if you're willing to gather in a coffee shop or sports bar--anywhere friends can talk about issues that make a difference--this might be the time to grab your favorite drink and jump in.
Winner of the 2020 CCCC Research Impact Award Lean Technical Communication: Toward Sustainable Program Innovation offers a theoretically and empirically-grounded model for growing and stewarding professional and technical communication programs under diverse conditions. Through case studies of disruptive innovations, this book presents a forward-looking, sustainable vision of program administration that negotiates short-term resource deficits with long-term resilience. It illustrates how to meet many of the newest challenges facing technical communication programs, such as building and maintaining change with limited resources, economic shortfalls, technology deficits, and expanding/reimagining the role of our programs in the 21st century university. Its insights benefit those involved in the development of undergraduate and graduate programs, including majors, service courses, minors, specializations, and certificates.
Professional Writing Online is not a book, but an instructional website. It is the first course material intended for applied writing courses that makes full use of the dynamic capabilities of the World Wide Web. The flexibility afforded by the Web provides important advantages as a teaching tool over conventional textbooks. A short handbook functions as a guide to using the site, but the website itself is completely autonomous, intended to be used on its own as an instructional resource for professional writing. PWO offers four primary points of entry, which correspond to the four major sections of the site: Projects, Documents, Principles, and Resources. The Projects provide activities and exercises for inside and outside of the classroom. The Documents section provides a wealth of real-world examples of a variety of document types. The Principles section offers explanations of the topics that are integral to an applied writing course. The Resources section provides teachers and students additional materials that will be useful in the teaching and practicing of writing on the job. These sections, of course, are interlinked so students can move back and forth among the sections to find what they need in focusing on a particular topic. Overall, Professional Writing Online provides far more material than a conventional textbook, and provides additional links to an abundance of related material on the World Wide Web.
Those at any level of leadership in business, education, health care, parishes, dioceses and religious communities will find much here to assist them in becoming more effective leaders.
With aspirations to be a physician, Emma applies to Boston Female Medical College. But her plans are threatened by the school's limited vision of the role of female physicians, an entanglement with an Irish family, and a city tragedy that leaves hundreds dead.
Office 97, Microsoft's latest and best-selling integrated software applications suite, is the focus of this comprehensive textbook by Patricia Sullivan. The text is intended for an introductory microcomputer applications course covering Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint. Each software package is covered independently, allowing instructors to customize their order of topics. Extensive coverage of OLE (object linking and embedding) and Office 97's integration with the World Wide Web is provided. Five practical projects, ranging from business to personal applications, are included for hands-on experience.
In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches. Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play—all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: “Creation Stories and Genealogies,” “Ocean and Waterscapes,” “Land and Islands,” “Flowers, Plants, and Trees,” “Animals and More-than-Human Species,” “Climate Change,” and “Environmental Justice.” This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful bio-diversity of the Pacific itself. The urgent voices in this book call us to attention—to action!—at a time of great need. Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. While Pacific writers celebrate the beauty and cultural symbolism of the ocean, islands, trees, and flowers, they also bravely address the frightening realities of rising sea levels, animal extinction, nuclear radiation, military contamination, and pandemics. Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures reminds us that we are not alone; we are always in relation and always ecological. Humans, other species, and nature are interrelated; land and water are central concepts of identity and genealogy; and Earth is the sacred source of all life, and thus should be treated with love and care. With this book as a trusted companion, we are inspired and empowered to reconnect with the world as we navigate towards a precarious yet hopeful future.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Kunst - Architektur, Baugeschichte, Denkmalpflege, Note: 1,3, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Kunsthistorisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Form follows Function, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Louis Henry Sullivan prägte den Satz „Form follows Function“, der heutzutage wahrscheinlich bekannter ist als der Architekt selbst. Doch was verbirgt sich hinter diesem Lehrsatz? Der Brockhaus weist unter dem Begriff „Funktion“ die Synonyme „Aufgabe, Tätigkeit, Stellung“ auf1, des weiteren divergiert die Bedeutung des Begriffs im Zusammenhang mit verschiedenen Wissenschaften, wie der Mathematik, der Philosophie, der Medizin und der Sprache. Die Aufgabe die das Gebäude erfüllt, also seine Nutzung, sollte aus der Form, aus seinem äußeren Erscheinungsbild hervorgehen. In verschiedenen Lexika wird außerdem auf den Funktionalismus hingewiesen, der sich um 1920 in der Architektur etablierte. Dort heißt es, dass diese Kunstrichtung dem Objekt „Zwecke und Aufgaben zuweist“ und deshalb „der Gebrauchszweck [...] über die Form entscheiden [soll].“2 Als Vertreter wird das Bauhaus genannt, deren Umgang mit dem Objekt sich jedoch, trotz der vergleichbaren Intention, von Sullivans unterscheidet. Wie Sullivan „Form follows Function“ umsetzte, wie seine weitere Architekturtheorie aussah und wie er diese in seinen Gebäuden verwirklichte, ist Thema dieser Hausarbeit. Da Sullivans Kindheit ihn in seiner Theorie beeinflusste, die in seiner Biographie „The Autobiography of an Idea“3 aus dem Jahr 1924 nachzuvollziehen ist, wird das erste Kapitel das sein Leben beleuchten, um darauf aufbauend seine Architekturtheorie und auf ihn einwirkende und von ihm ausgehende Einflüsse zu erörtern. Den Abschluss der Arbeit bilden drei seiner Gebäude, das Auditorium, das Wainwright Building und das Schlesinger & Mayer Department Store, die als Beispiele vorgestellt werden. An ihnen wird versucht, die Umsetzung seiner Architekturtheorie zu hinterfragen. 1 Brockhaus, Die Enzyklopädie in vierundzwanzig Bänden, Bd. 8 ( (Frit-Goti): „Funktion“. Leipzig/Mannheim 1996, S.61-62. 2 Knaurs Lexikon in zwanzig Bänden, Bd. 6 (Fe-Ge): „Funktion“. Stuttgart 1974, S. 2019-2020. 3 Sullivan, Louis Henry: The Autobiography of an Idea (1924). Hrsg.: Ralph Marlowe Line, New York 1956.
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