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Author | : Matt Tavares |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0763632244 |
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A picture book biography of African-American baseball player Hank Aaron.
Author | : Howard Bryant |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2011-05-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0307279928 |
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This definitive biography of Henry (Hank) Aaron—one of baseball's immortal figures—is a revelatory portrait of a complicated, private man who through sports became an enduring American icon. “Beautifully written and culturally important.” —The Washington Post “The epic baseball tale of the second half of the 20th century.” —Atlanta Journal Constitution After his retirement in 1976, Aaron’s reputation only grew in magnitude. But his influence extended beyond statistics. Based on meticulous research and extensive interviews The Last Hero reveals how Aaron navigated the upheavals of his time—fighting against racism while at the same time benefiting from racial progress—and how he achieved his goal of continuing Jackie Robinson’s mission to obtain full equality for African Americans, both in baseball and society, while he lived uncomfortably in the public eye.
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Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 318 |
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Genre | : African American civil rights workers |
ISBN | : 9781617032240 |
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Chronicles the life of civil rights activist Aaron Henry.
Author | : Minion K. C. Morrison |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2015-06-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1557287597 |
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Winner of the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award When Aaron Henry returned home to Mississippi from World War II service in 1946, he was part of wave of black servicemen who challenged the racial status quo. He became a pharmacist through the GI Bill, and as a prominent citizen, he organized a hometown chapter of the NAACP and relatively quickly became leader of the state chapter. From that launching pad he joined and helped lead an ensemble of activists who fundamentally challenged the system of segregation and the almost total exclusion of African Americans from the political structure. These efforts were most clearly evident in his leadership of the integrated Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation, which, after an unsuccessful effort to unseat the lily-white Democratic delegation at the Democratic National Convention in 1964, won recognition from the national party in 1968. The man who the New York Times described as being “at the forefront of every significant boycott, sit-in, protest march, rally, voter registration drive and court case” eventually became a rare example of a social-movement leader who successfully moved into political office. Aaron Henry of Mississippi covers the life of this remarkable leader, from his humble beginnings in a sharecropping family to his election to the Mississippi house of representatives in 1979, all the while maintaining the social-change ideology that prompted him to improve his native state, and thereby the nation.
Author | : Jerry Poling |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2002-10-28 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0299181839 |
Download A Summer Up North Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
June 12, 1952—only a local sportswriter showed up at the Eau Claire airport to greet a newly signed eighteen-year-old shortstop from Alabama toting a cardboard suitcase. "I was scared as hell," said Henry Aaron, recalling his arrival as the new recruit on the city’s Class C minor league baseball team. Forty-two years later, as Aaron approached the stadium where the Eau Claire Bears once played, an estimated five thousand people surrounded a newly raised bronze statue of a young "Hank" Aaron at bat. "I had goosebumps," he said later. "A lot of things happened to me in my twenty-three years as a ballplayer, but nothing touched me more than that day in Eau Claire." For the people of Eau Claire, Aaron’s summer two years before his Major League debut with the Milwaukee Braves symbolizes a magical time, when baseball fans in a small city in northern Wisconsin could live a part of the dream.
Author | : Peter Golenbock |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 015205250X |
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A biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player who broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.
Author | : Clare Gault |
Publisher | : Scholastic Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1994-04-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780590455305 |
Download The Home Run Kings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A brief biography emphasizing the careers of the two baseball players famous for their record number of home runs.
Author | : Françoise N. Hamlin |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807835498 |
Download Crossroads at Clarksdale Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town ov
Author | : Douglas L. Conner |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781604731736 |
Download A Black Physician's Story Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The autobiography of a black doctor in white Mississippi during the Jim Crow era and the fierce struggle for civil rights
Author | : John Howard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2001-10-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780226354705 |
Download Men Like That Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"As Howard recounts the life stories of the ordinary and the famous, often in their own words, he also locates the material traces of queer sexuality in the landscape: from the farmhouse to the church social, from sports facilities to roadside rest areas."--Jacket.