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Hot, Hot Chicken

A Nashville Story

By: Rachel Louise Martin

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Hot, Hot Chicken

A Nashville Story

By: Rachel Louise Martin

These days, hot chicken is a “must-try” Southern food. Restaurants in New York, Detroit, Cambridge, and even Australia advertise that they fry their chicken “Nashville-style.” Thousands of people attend the Music City Hot Chicken Festival each year. The James Beard Foundation has given Prince’s Chicken Shack an American Classic Award for inventing the dish. But for almost seventy years, hot chicken was made and sold primarily in Nashville’s Black neighborhoods—and the story of hot chicken says something powerful about race relations in Nashville, especially as the city tries to figure out what it will be in the future. Hot, Hot Chicken recounts the history of Nashville’s Black communities through the story of its hot chicken scene from the Civil War, when Nashville became a segregated city, through the tornado that ripped through North Nashville in March 2020.

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Vanderbilt University Press

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082650177X

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9780826501776

A Most Tolerant Little Town

The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

By: Rachel Louise Martin

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A Most Tolerant Little Town

The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

By: Rachel Louise Martin

An intimate portrait of a small Southern town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history-about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board-will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America. In graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One day, she was sent to a small town in Tennessee, in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of August 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to undergo court-mandated desegregation. After recording a dozen interviews, Rachel asked the museum's curator why everyone she'd been told to gather stories from was white. Weren't there any Black residents of Clinton who remembered this history? A few hours later, she got a call from the head of the oral history project: the town of Clinton didn't want her help anymore. For years, Rachel Martin wondered what it was the white residents of Clinton didn't want remembered. So she went back, eventually interviewing sixty residents-including the surviving Black students who'd desegregated Clinton High-to piece together what happened back in 1956: the death threats and beatings, picket lines and cross burnings, neighbors turned on neighbors and preachers for the first time at a loss for words. The national guard had rushed to town, followed by national journalists like Edward Murrow and even evangelist Billy Graham. And still tensions continued to rise... until white supremacists bombed the school. In A Most Tolerant Little Town, Rachel Martin weaves together a dozen disparate perspectives in an intimate and yet kaleidoscopic portrait of a small town living through a tumultuous turning point for America. The result is a propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history that reads like a ticking time bomb... and illuminates the devastating costs of being on the frontlines of social change. You may have never before heard of Clinton-but you won't be forgetting the town anytime soon"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1982186852

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A Most Tolerant Little Town

The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

By: Rachel Louise Martin

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The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation

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1982186852

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Hot, Hot Chicken

A Nashville Story

By: Rachel Louise Martin

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A Nashville Story

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Poor and Pregnant in Paris

Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century

By: Rachel G. Fuchs

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Poor and Pregnant in Paris

Strategies for Survival in the Nineteenth Century

By: Rachel G. Fuchs

In their attempt to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in some respects helped shape it. Rachel Fuchs reveals who these women were and how they survived. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual hospital records and court testimonies, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences, their use of charity and welfare, and their recourse to abortion and infanticide as desperate alternatives to motherhood. Fuchs also provides a comprehensive description of philanthropic and welfare institutions, and outlines the relationship between the developing welfare state and official conceptions of womanhood. She traces the evolution of a new morality among policymakers in which secular views, medical hygiene, and a new focus on the protection of children replaced religious morality as a driving force in policy formation. Combining social, intellectual, and medical history, this study of poor mothers illuminates both class and gender relations in Paris and brings to light the connection between social policy and the way ordinary women lived their lives. Fuchs's book enriches contemporary debates about maternity leave, abortion rights, and national health care initiatives. Book jacket.

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348

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Rutgers University Press

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0813517796

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9780813517797

Divine Daughters

Liberating the Power and Passion of Women's Voices

By: Rachel L. Bagby

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Divine Daughters

Liberating the Power and Passion of Women's Voices

By: Rachel L. Bagby

The author relates her life experiences to explore the connection between self-expression and personal power and calls on women to reclaim their voices and respect their passions

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Harper San Francisco

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0062514261

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9780062514264

Independent Story of the Year

The Ten Winning Stories

By: Rachel Adams

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Independent Story of the Year

The Ten Winning Stories

By: Rachel Adams

Three stories from the ten best for six to nine-year olds, selected from the 1996 Story of the Year competition.

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196

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0590542699

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9780590542692

Provence and the Côte D'Azur

The Rough Guide

By: Kate Baillie,Danny Aeberhard,Rachel Kaberry

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Provence and the Côte D'Azur

The Rough Guide

By: Kate Baillie,Danny Aeberhard,Rachel Kaberry

The Rough Guide to Provence and the Cote D'Azuris the most comprehensive handbook you can buy to this stunning part of France. Features include: •Full-coloursection introducing the area's highlights. •Detailedcoverage of every attraction, from the bustling Vieux Port of Marseille to the remote mountains of Haute-Provence. •Discerningreviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, for all budgets. •Informedbackground on local history, books and festivals. •Practicaladvice on exploring the offshore islands and the wild coastal stretches. •Maps and plansfor every area.

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460

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1858284201

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9781858284200

The Reading Group Handbook

Everything You Need to Know, from Choosing Membersto Leading Discussions

By: Rachel W. Jacobsohn

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The Reading Group Handbook

Everything You Need to Know, from Choosing Membersto Leading Discussions

By: Rachel W. Jacobsohn

Sponsored by bookstores and spawned by circles of book-loving former strangers, reading groups have become a nationwide phenomenon. This unique guide is must reading for everyone interested in enjoying reading or reading groups--from where and when to meet to selecting books to finding baby sitters and catering.

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Hyperion

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0786880023

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9780786880027

Book's by Rachel Louise Martin

Hot, Hot Chicken

Hot, Hot Chicken

A Most Tolerant Little Town

A Most Tolerant Little Town

A Most Tolerant Little Town

A Most Tolerant Little Town

Hot, Hot Chicken

Hot, Hot Chicken

Poor and Pregnant in Paris

Poor and Pregnant in Paris

Divine Daughters

Divine Daughters

Independent Story of the Year

Independent Story of the Year

Provence and the Côte D'Azur

Provence and the Côte D'Azur

The Reading Group Handbook

The Reading Group Handbook

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