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If you enjoyed reading about The Lady of 6,000 Songs in the best seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, you will love going behind the scenes to learn more about how the remarkable entertainer and her husband successfully juggled their marriage, her Hall of Fame music career, his sign business, and at the same time, raise ten children. Though Emma Kelly was mostly known as the piano player who could seemingly play any song ever written, the close friend and collaborator of songwriter Johnny Mercer is revealed in Whats Your Favorite Song? to have achieved even greater accomplishments as a wife and mother. Learn how she and her husband overcame challenges and hardships through the Gre...
Nineteen seventy-two marked the end of one era and the beginning of another in the United Auto Workers' involvement in the Michigan Democratic party. Before 1972 the UAW acted as a dominating influence in party activities; after 1972 the UAW simply took over the leadership of the Michigan Democratic party. For years the UAW encouraged participation of its members in the Democratic party. Its members were elected to every level of the party organization. There were, however, other members of the Democratic coalition that had been important components of the party, especially the blacks. The coalition that promised economic benefits was in danger of being destroyed by a social issue — busing...
Drawing on court records, newspaper accounts, penitentiary records, letters, and diaries, White Man’s Heaven is a thorough investigation into the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kimberly Harper explores events in the towns of Monett, Pierce City, Joplin, and Springfield, Missouri, and Harrison, Arkansas, to show how post–Civil War vigilantism, an established tradition of extralegal violence, and the rapid political, economic, and social change of the New South era happened independently but were also part of a larger, interconnected regional experience. Even though some whites, especially in Joplin and Springfield, tried to stop the violence and bring the lynchers to justice, many African Americans fled the Ozarks, leaving only a resilient few behind and forever changing the racial composition of the region.
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