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Summary of Ruth J. Simmons's Up Home
Get the Summary of Ruth J. Simmons's Up Home in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Up Home" by Ruth J. Simmons is a memoir that chronicles the author's journey from her childhood in the segregated South to her academic achievements and personal growth. Born in 1945 in the small East Texas community of Daly, Simmons was raised in a sharecropping family, where she experienced the stark realities of racial segregation and the limitations it imposed on Black individuals. Despite these challenges, Simmons's curiosity and aspirations were fueled by her experiences in Grapeland, her family's resilience, and the educational opportunities she encountered...
Boogie Woogie Iii
There is a certain amount of unexpected boogie woogie in anyones life or business entitys fate. It is when the boogie woogie gets to be so serious that it is considered the ultimate; meaning, a continuous headache, heartache, or depressing stress that it swells your head in disbelief. ~~~ Symptoms of the Boogie Woogie Ultimate Blues ~~~ Your next door neighbor scoops your newspapers three mornings in a row, lie about it, but you have him on video. Your boss tells you that you are no longer needed at the office two days before Christmas. Your daughters boyfriend wrecked your car that she borrowed to run one errand that never got done. Your wife took $4,500 out of the joint checking account wi...
Making Sense of Slavery
An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life In recent years, from school board meetings to the halls of Congress, Americans have engaged in fierce debates about how slavery and its legacies ought to be taught, researched, and narrated. But since the earliest days of the Republic, political leaders, abolitionists, judges, scholars, and ordinary citizens have all struggled to explain and understand the peculiar institution. In Making Sense of Slavery, historian Scott Spillman shows that the study of sla...
Ebony
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
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Jet
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Up Home
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Simmons’s evocative account of her remarkable trajectory from Jim Crow Texas, where she was the youngest of twelve children in a sharecropping family, to the presidencies of Smith College and Brown University shines with tenderness and dignity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) “A riveting work of literature, destined to take its place in the canon of great African American autobiographies.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Bloomberg, BET I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroad in N...
