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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Try and Be Somebody, a biography of the inspiring life of Dr. Henry Lake Dickason, documents the life of the first president of Bluefield State College, Bluefield, West Virginia, and an early 20th century leader of Black education. Though Dickason's remarkable achievements have been largely ignored by history, the man comes to life with this narrative.Dickason was born two decades after the end of the Civil War and grew up in a log cabin on Peters Mountain near Lindside, West Virginia. He learned about slavery from his grandparents on both sides of the family. All four were slaves, his father's parents on the farm where Dr. Dickason grew up and his mother's parents on a farm at Gap Mills, West Virginia. The life of Henry Lake vividly portrays the lives of the rural Black community of the time. The reader can hear the swing of the cabin door, smell the dinner cooking, and feel hope and sorrows of the family as they live out their lives on Peters Mountain in West Virginia.Young Henry Lake learned about the oppression of segregation, especially the limited opportunity for black children to get an education, from the struggles of his own life. But he recognized early that education was the key to a decent and successful life. Dickason's thirst for knowledge led him on a transformative journey against formidable odds from a rural agricultural community to an academic world, first at Bluefield Colored Institute, a boarding high school, then to Columbus, Ohio, earning degrees at Ohio State University and becoming the national president of a then fledgling black fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. He was awarded two doctorates later, one in a ceremony in which Eleanor Roosevelt gave the commencement address.Dickason's career in education began at Bluefield Colored Institute in 1914 and was part of the evolution of the school through several roles as it became an accredited college in 1949. His fight to maintain the college and its facilities and to expand the campus to include new areas of study spanned nearly forty years. After retirement there, he accepted the presidency of Morristown College in Tennessee and worked to lead the school until his death in 1957.He rose quietly above racial inequities and personal tragedies to hold the door open for others to have better opportunities. He became a driving force in racial pride and in ensuring that education was available for all those in southern West Virginia who desired to learn.Dickason's character has such presence that the reader will make the journey with him, rooting for him and inspired by him the whole way. From his own challenges and successes to the roles he plays in the lives of others, Dr. Dickason lives on these pages. His life, guided by his father's words, 'Try and be somebody,' inspires us all.Many illustrations, an appendix, and multiple indexes supplement the story.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pick Your Poison builds on the first two novels of the series, Drunk on Peace and Quiet and Hung Over with Grandma, but all the reader really needs to know is Stella and Jonas are middle-aged newlyweds who are plagued by Stella's troubled brother Timmy Lee.In this sequel, Stella and Jonas face a new obstacle, a huge unwanted natural gas pipeline crossing their mountain farm. At the same time, her brother, a suspected murderer, is pretending to be a preacher at a sunny beach town in South Carolina and is targeting a wealthy woman who lives in a nursing home there. The two plots intersect in a conclusion that features Stella's usual pragmatic decision-making. She 'picks her poison' in a way that the reader may not expect.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Penelope Ann Davis suffers a childhood of abuse at the hands of her older brother before she runs away on graduation night. She escapes on a bus headed north from her home in Atlanta and ends up on a mountain farm in southern West Virginia. There she establishes a happy, contented life as Stella for the next three decades. Then, out of the blue, her brother shows up in front of her church and her life starts to unravel: church money goes missing, her best friend is found dead, and a new church member is in desperate financial straits. Her brother discovers her identity and she faces imminent danger. Underlying the action is wry mountain humor and a tender love story between Stella and an Alaskan Inupiaq man with some mysterious circumstances of his own.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Second in the series of the life of an Appalachian woman, Hung Over with Grandma continues the love story of Stella and Jonas, her Inupiat boyfriend for nearly three decades. It spans the distance from Lindside, a rural community in West Virginia to Atqasuk, a small town in Alaska. His elderly mother, suffering from the beginnings of dementia, and her brother, committed to a state hospital awaiting trial for murder, create a bumpy road for the new marriage and the lives of Stella and Jonas. When Stella says 'I do' to Jonas, she discovers quite the surprise -- a sudden honeymoon takes the newlyweds from the winter cold of West Virginia to the freezing depths of the Arctic night in Barrow, Alaska. There she is thrust into adventures she never imagined possible. Greater even than facing the journey and the below zero temperatures, the real shock is the culture and the new and remarkable mother-in-law, Mary Jo. Jonas' mother is sometimes withdrawn and enigmatic and sometimes a mighty force in the lives of Jonas and Stella. The clashes are there, but as Jonas revisits the home country of his youth and Stella finds her way in the complex family relationships, both recognize that even with huge cultural differences between the Arctic and West Virginia there are deeply shared values: love of the outdoors, humor, love and loyalty to family, and even the fun of bingo games. Circumstances created by the early ravages of dementia bring the newlyweds home with two companions -- Mary Jo and her sister Phoebe. These elderly, lively, wildly mischievous, and clever women are immediately more than a handful for Stella and Jonas. They soon become players in the family fight to defend Stella from her brother Timmy Lee, now a fugitive escaped from a psychiatric hospital and hell-bent for deadly revenge on Stella and willing to roll over two old women to get it. Bonus material includes sections from the final book in the series.…

Zustand: New. KlappentextBiography of Henry Lake Dickason documents the life of the first president of Bluefield State College, WV. Dr. Dickason was an early 20th century leader of Black education. He rose above racial inequities and personal tragedie.

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

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Zustand: New. Bill Robertson was one of the US s greatest pioneers and a tireless advocate for racial justice. One of his final acts was the completion of his memoirs. Lifting Every Voice reveals how the advances made during his lifetime were no foregone conclusion with.

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