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Thurgood Marshall: From His Early Years to Brown by Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark

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“Michael Davis and Hunter Clark have crafted a thoughtful, carefully researched and focused biography.” —USA Today

“Well-written, informative and lively.” —People

“Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark offer a masterfully written tale of an American legend.” — Gannett News Service

“Filled with the same fire, passion and humor that drove Marshall’s life, Thurgood Marshall is a revealing portrait of a pioneering lawyer.” —National Black Review

This ebook edition is the first half of the 1992 print edition of “Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench.” This new edition covers Thurgood Marshall’s youth, education, and the legal strategies he used, and the cases he argued leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The reviews above are from the print edition.

Publisher’s Note:
Chapter 1 describes Thurgood Marshall’s place in history.
Chapter 2 explains the challenges Marshall and the attorneys of the N.A.A.C.P were to face as they built the precedents that led to the Brown decision.
Chapter 3 is about Marshall’s childhood in Jim Crow Baltimore, and is probably the best starting point for high school students who want to begin with a straight-forward story of the life of a courageous leader. This chapter lends itself to writing assignments such as “Compare your public school years to what Thurgood Marshall experienced in Baltimore.” Not only will students have to read the chapter to complete the writing assignment, but there will be space for their own voices in the assignment. They may find this comparison more interesting than a book report.
Chapter 4 describes his years in Howard University Law School, and the work of his mentor, Charles Hamilton Houston, who saw how the law school and its graduates could fight racial injustice.
Subsequent chapters describe the work Marshall did on the cases leading up to the Brown decision, his civil rights work in the South, and his push for fair treatment of Black G.I.s during the Korean War.

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Battleground Iraq – Journal of a Company Commander By Captain Todd S. Brown

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Reviews from GoodReads

Outstanding. A book that needed to be written and was written well.

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Personal journal of a company commander in Iraq from 2003-2004. Full of fighting, heat and “Groundhog Days.” (Days like the movie where you wake up and do the exact same thing over and over again.)

Why I started this book: Downloaded the RBDigital App and this book before our library training.

Why I finished it: Compelling narrative. I binged it in under 24 hours. So interesting to read a first hand account from the very beginning of the Iraq War.

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Brown captures both the chaos and the mundanity of modern-day conflict in the Middle East. With a great sense of humour and generally good moral judgement, his journal tells a very vivid and engaging story of a bunch of guys over the other side of the world, fighting a people they will never understand. Often, it was refreshingly “un-PC”. He doesn’t hold back in expressing his disgust at the practices of particularly the Iraqi male renegades. Nor does he keep to himself, his disagreement with the whole “hearts and mind” argument in rebuilding the country. “The only thing these people understand is violence,” he continues to assert.

All round, this provided an unapologetically honest look into the U.S. forces fighting in the Middle East. Knowing how much has changed since then, how much even the necessity of that invasion in the first place has been called entirely into question, makes the book all the more dramatically ironic.

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My son (Army ROTC) may be in Battleground Afghanistan in a few years. Captain Brown’s obsession with cleanliness, physical training, field practice, and what’s for dinner were instructive. His frank observations about the impact of a democratic military on a tribal society were informative. The losses he and his unit suffered in one year were eye-opening. His diary is my introduction to 21st century war, a see-saw between the boring “groundhog days” of laying about and the terror-anger-controlled violence of being hunted, hunting and killing–and then having diplomatic teas with the population that has come to respect you through fear. I can only hope that my son will negotiate the confusions, conundrums and disparities of war with as sane an eye as Captain Brown’s.

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History for Everyone: Free Ebooks by Popular Writers from the Past

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When will students read the same biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs that adults have been buying for generations? When will the quality and quantity of reading experiences matter in American classrooms? When will school districts realize that ‘mentioning’ a topic briefly in a textbook does not give students the repetition needed to commit the subject or the character or the topic to long-term memory?

Alternatives to textbooks are now available. With this guidebook to ninety eBooks, all available for free on the websites of non-profits, there is an alternative to the status quo for teachers, parents and school board members.

Please send your comments, corrections, and suggestions for digitizing other out-of-print books to me at feedback@ebooksforstudents.org.

Regards,
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This is the story of the most important science writer of the 20th century. With “Silent Spring” Rachel Carson shocked Americans into reevaluating the man-made chemicals that have polluted our whole environment. Carson “jolted the entire country into awareness of the problem” of pesticides.” Her book “launched the environmental movement; provoked the passage of the Clean Air Act…the Clean Water Act…and led to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

By drawing much of his story from the recollections of Rachel Carson’s friends and colleagues, the author presents a well-rounded portrait of a woman who was a dedicated scientist and gifted writer, a devoted daughter and friend, and above all, a determined defender of the natural world she understood so well.

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Operation Enduring Freedom, U.S. Army in Afghanistan: September 2001-March 2002 by Mark R. Folse

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Mark R. Folse, a historian now teaching at the Naval Academy, provides an interesting overview of the first years of the US and Allied actions in Afghanistan. Mark Folse is also a U.S. Marine infantry veteran (2002 – 2006) with service in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

He explains why the US had to intervene and describes the successes and disappointments of the first months as the US ousted the Taliban from Kabul, but failed to find and kill Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora.

While Folse does not go on to explain how the mission crept from evicting al-Qaeda from Afghanistan to nation-building in Afghanistan, he does show how, in the early months, the only goal was the defeat of al-Qaeda. He also mentioned that Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of Defense at the time, rejected any negotiations with the Taliban. Obviously, the anger of Americans about the tragedies of 9/11 might have made early negotiations unlikely, but it is an interesting what-if. Why did Donald Trump later have the political space to invite the Taliban to Camp David for negotiations, you might ask your students.

And Folse provides background about the people of Afghanistan.  He writes of the religious zeal of the Taliban, which helped them in “recruiting and fighting” in the years they controlled Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal. Folse also shows how the terrain of Afghanistan made US operations difficult in many areas. Landing and resupplying troops on the sides of mountains was dangerous and made control of the countryside hard to achieve, Folse writes.

The Council on Foreign Relations has a useful timeline which your students might enjoy before reading Folse’s book. It is at https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-war-afghanistan.

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Before the Mayflower-A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1962 by Lerone Bennett, Jr.

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This a great introduction, if not then the best introduction, to African American History. If you want to know more about the story of African Americans this book is very readable and accurate. When I taught our school’s African American History class, this was my text. My students liked it so much most of them went out and bought their own copies.

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Mr. Bennett gives voice to Black Americans, and to the cultures they brought with them. Through impeccable research, he has uncovered history and culture that was not readily available those many years ago. This book was published and available at almost the same time I finished my degree. I found it later when I had the luxury of being able to read what I wanted, rather than that which was assigned, and have used it to some degree in home schooling my son (though it is too difficult for most high school students). Highly readable and enormously enlightening.

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This was an amazing piece of work. I knew that people of color in this country had it rough but this truly shows just how bad. Even with all of the hardships people of color tried again and again to be the best that society would not let them. I was inspired by this book to continue to strive for progress and thus success. The stories of my ancestors have shown me that I come from a strong stock that can survived the worst of times so that I may have the best of times.

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From the inside flap of the print edition of 1962: This is a history of the American Negro, whose ancestors arrived at Jamestown a year before the arrival of the “Mayflower.” The book begins in Africa with the great empires of the Nile Valley and the western Sudan and ends with the Second Reconstruction, which Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sit-in Genera­tion are fashioning in the North and South. Written in a dramatic, readable style, Before The Mayflower throws a great deal of light on today’s headlines. As such, it will be a valuable addition to the library of every discerning American. Grounded on the work of scholars and specialists, the book is designed for the non-specialist. Based on the trials and triumphs of Negro Americans, the book tells a story which is relevant to all men. Here are the Negro Minute Men of Lexington and Concord and the black soldiers who stood with Andrew Jackson at New Orleans and Ulysses S. Grant at Petersburg. Here also are the forgotten figures of American history: Phillis Wheatley, the slave poet who became the second American woman to write a book; Nat Turner, the mystic who led a bloody slave revolt; P. B. S. Pinchback, the Negro who sat in the Louisiana governor’s mansion and dreamed of the vice presidency. The epub format below is for your Apple and Android devices and the Send-to-Kindle feature on Amazon devices.

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Here is the beginning of a review from the New York Times. The entire review is in the front matter of the eBook.

From the New York Times, November 19, 1944.
THE VALLEY AND ITS PEOPLE: A
Portrait of TVA. By R.L. Duffus and
Charles Krutch. 167 pp. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf. $2.75.

By D. F. FLEMING
Professor of Political Science Vanderbilt University

“THIS Is an important volume and it is also one of the most delightful books this reviewer has ever read. Printed on a format a little larger than usual, and in large print, it contains 200 photographs portraying as nothing else could the majesty of the TVA undertaking and its many-sided stimulation of the life of the valley people. It can all be read in two or three hours of vivid adventure.

“The text, by R. L. Duffus. tells the story of the greatest experiment in area development in our history. It begins with the havoc man had wrought in the valley— 2,500,000 acres of land ruined beyond repair; traces the long struggle to utilize the immense Wilson dam built during World War I at Muscle Shoals, and describes the decision in 1933 not only to use the dam but to build many others and develop the great valley as a whole.

“It was fortunate that a man of long vision, Senator George W. Norris, sat as the head of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry when the time came to commission TVA to work for the maximum of (1) flood control; (2) navigation; (3) electric power; (4) land development; 15) reforestation; (6) “the economic and social well-being of the people.” Norris stood, staunchly for all these objectives, but especially for the last. …”

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Shirley Chisholm by Susan Brownmiller

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Critics’ Corner:

“The author chronicles major events in Shirley
Chisholm’s life and career from her childhood in
Barbados through her first year as Representative
of Brooklyn’s newly created 12th Congressional
District in a chatty, narrative account that under­
scores the dynamic personality of the first black
Congresswoman. . . . Brownmiller takes note of the
people, both historic and contemporary, who aided
or influenced Mrs. Chisholm. . . . The book also
offers insight into political organization at the local
level.”                                              —A.L.A. Booklist

 

“A winning personal portrait, a fix on the political facts of life, and preeminently the projection of a Black woman who wouldn’t be detoured on either account. . . . Notable are the explicitness . . . and the sharp, sensitive delineation of scene. . . .”

—The Kirkus Reviews

 

“. . . inspirational and motivational reading. . . .”

—Library Journal

Other Recommendations: Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, University of Chicago; Child Study Association.

About the Author:

Susan Brownmiller is a well-known journalist who writes articles for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and other important publications. Her cover story on Shirley Chisholm for The New York Times Magazine led to her writing this longer biography for young readers. Miss Brownmiller grew up in Brooklyn and now lives in Greenwich Village in New York City.

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Winner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber’s crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago’s high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler’s daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges. This is the stunning and unforgettable “novel to read and to remember” by an author who “critics of the 1920s and 1930s did not hesitate to call the greatest American woman novelist of her day” (New York Times).

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