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5. Construction Of Segregation Struss Shed 250 Sq Ft For Solid-waste Management (swm) Unit For Chaitanyapur-i Gram Panchayat, Under Beldanga-i Dev. Block

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, Refuse and refuse disposal -- Personal narratives, Business, international
Abstract

Tenders are invited for Construction of Segregation Struss shed 250 sq ft for Solid-Waste Management (SWM) unit for Chaitanyapur-I Gram Panchayat, Under Beldanga-I Dev. Block. Doc Fees : INR 350.00 [...]

Published
2023

8. What we can learn of history from older African American women who worked as maids in the Deep South

Author

van Wormer, Katherine, Jackson, David W., III, and Sudduth, Charletta

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, Sparsely populated areas -- Demographic aspects, African American women -- Personal narratives, Paternalism -- Demographic aspects, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Abstract

This paper examines the life stories of six African American women who worked as maids for white families in the Deep South from the 1920s to the 1950s. Together their narratives present the facts about life during those times that are not contained in the history books. The role of older Americans as preservers of history and teachers of the younger generation is explored., There is awareness today, in the tradition of historian Howard Zinn, that the personal stories of people should be explored in order to bring to life the daily struggles and [...]

Published
2013

9. Front porch

Author

Watson, Harry

Subjects
Civil rights movements -- Personal narratives, Segregation -- Personal narratives, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, Regional focus/area studies, Personal narratives
Abstract

The Civil Rights Movement first touched my life about fifty years ago, though I scarcely knew it at the time. We were visiting my father's sisters at the old home [...]

Published
2008

10. An ironic Jim Crow: the experiences of two generations of Southern black men. (Southern Voices)

Author

Hornsby, Angela and Rozum, Molly P.

Subjects
University of North Carolina -- History, Segregation -- Personal narratives, Oral history -- Personal narratives, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, Regional focus/area studies, Collections and collecting, History, Personal narratives
Abstract

'They did not knuckle under to the institution of slavery or, following that, the institution of Jim Crow-ism,' reflected Edwin Caldwell Jr. on evaluating some two hundred years of his [...]

Published
2002

11. An army of ones: diversity and unity can be competing goals. Three pastors wrestle with the New Testament ideal and the realities in their congregations

Author

Keener, Craig, Osborne, Larry, and Driscoll, Mark

Subjects
Ministers (Clergy) -- Quotations -- Personal narratives, Segregation -- Personal narratives, Church work -- Personal narratives, Philosophy and religion, Quotations, Personal narratives
Abstract

Martin Luther King Jr. said that 11:00 on Sunday morning is 'the most segregated hour in America.' Not much has changed since King made that statement. But is this a [...]

Published
2005

12. Opinion: I went to a segregation academy. Now, I want to ban them

Author

Cain, Amy

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, Students -- Personal narratives, Racial integration -- Personal narratives, Educational facilities -- Personal narratives, High schools, Education, Private schools, News, opinion and commentary, Sports and fitness
Abstract

Byline: Amy Cain In 2016, I graduated from a segregation academy. For 12 years of my educational experience, I attended Northpoint Christian School , which was formerly known as Southern [...]

Published
2019

13. I ran from Memphis. But I can't escape how it felt to grow up black there

Author

Seletzky, Leta McCollough

Subjects
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968 -- Influence, Segregation -- Personal narratives, Race awareness -- Personal narratives, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Leta McCollough Seletzky Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination occurred eight years before I was born, but in Memphis, it has never quite seemed like the past. It's so deeply [...]

Published
2018

14. StoryCorps Griot: Experiencing the Segregated South

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, Race discrimination -- Personal narratives
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12183227 FARAI CHIDEYA, host: It's time now for StoryCorps Griot. Each Tuesday, we bring you a story from this project that's recording black […]

Published
2007

15. I ran from Memphis. But I can't escape how it felt to grow up black there

Author

Seletzky , Leta McCollough

Subjects
Memphis, Tennessee -- History, Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1968, Segregation -- Personal narratives, Anniversaries, Civil rights activists -- Appreciation, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Leta McCollough Seletzky The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination occurred eight years before I was born, but in Memphis, it has never quite seemed like the past. It's [...]

Published
2018

16. What my mother taught me about racial segregation in the fifties

Author

Staples, Brent

Subjects
African Americans -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African Americans -- Personal narratives, Segregation -- Personal narratives, Racism -- Personal narratives, Race relations -- Personal narratives, African American parents -- Methods, African American parents -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Race awareness -- Personal narratives
Published
2002

17. Reading James Baldwin on a segregated Southern construction site

Author

Dellinger, Walter

Subjects
Nobody Knows My Name (Essay collection) -- Appreciation, Segregation -- Personal narratives, Writers -- Appreciation -- Works, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Walter Dellinger In the late '50s and early '60s, James Baldwin was a gay black intellectual living and writing essays and novels in New York and Paris. I was [...]

Published
2017

18. Solitary confinement is inhumane. I should know -- I spent 30 days there; After a month in segregation, I emerged gaunt and scared of everything. I was so thin that inmates thought I'd been away getting some type of chemotherapy

Subjects
Solitary confinement -- Personal narratives, Segregation -- Personal narratives, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Chandra Bozelko The isolation of solitary confinement -- getting away from the shouts and chaos of the general inmate population -- is almost a relief, for about the first [...]

Published
2016

19. 'A Position of Respect'

Author

MCLENDON, JOHN B. Jr.

Subjects
McLendon, John B., Jr. -- Biography, North Carolina Central University -- History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Southern Oral History Program -- History, Segregation -- Personal narratives, African American basketball coaches -- Personal narratives -- Biography, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, Regional focus/area studies, History, Personal narratives
Abstract

A Basketball Coach Who Resisted Segregation Editor's note: Founded in 1973 by historian Jacquelyn Hall, the Southern Oral History Program (a Center for the Study of the American South component [...]

Published
2001

20. Little Victories

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Personal narratives
Abstract

One summer night when I was 7 years old, the elders of our church came to our home and told my father that he no longer had a job as [...]

Published
2000

21. A Young Boy's Stand on a New Orleans Streetcar

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6562915 JOHN YDSTIE, host: Fifty-one years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Today, the oral [...]

Published
2006

22. Racism face-to-face

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, Racism -- Personal narratives
Abstract

Racism and segregation were a Southern black's constant companions in the 1930s and 1940s. Young Martin Luther King, Jr., experienced both on many occasions: * When a white playmate of […]

Published
2001

27. Against the grain in the old south

Author

Carter, Jimmy

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, Race relations -- Personal narratives, Ex-presidents -- Personal narratives, African Americans -- Personal narratives, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, General interest, Personal narratives
Abstract

OVER the last 50 years, we have seen unprecedented progress in civil human rights in this country, although we still have a long way to go. I was in my [...]

Published
1995

30. Girl teaches with her actions, as adult pauses to decide

Author

Stroud, Joe H.

Subjects
Segregation -- Personal narratives, Race relations -- Personal narratives
Abstract

When the legal defenses of segregation began to crumble, just after I had graduated from college in 1957, I made the mistake of thinking change would come more easily than […]

Published
1997

31. S. Africa - frail hopes turn to rage

Author

Parks, Michael

Subjects
South Africa -- Social aspects, Blacks -- South Africa -- Social aspects, Segregation -- Personal narratives
Published
1985

32. Recalling a sad visit to Soweto

Author

Fotheringham, Allan

Subjects
Soweto, South Africa -- Social aspects, Homelands (South Africa) -- Social aspects, Segregation -- Personal narratives, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Published
1985

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