Author: Bob Blauner
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: lives, relations, america, race, decades, three, black
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1989-12-05
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520069501
ISBN-13: 9780520069503
One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight-foot cross on his front lawn. "I felt my life wasn’t worth a penny with a hole in it." Twenty-four years later, Spence had become a respected pillar of that same Mississippi town, serving as its first black alderman. The story of Howard Spence is just one of the remarkable personal dramas recounted in Black Lives, White Lives. Not all of the tales told by the sixteen blacks and twelve whites interviewed are as encouragin
Author: Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Keywords: america, century, twentieth, decades, 1980s
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-09
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 0822576023
ISBN-13: 9780822576020
What were Americans doing in the 1980s? Grooving to music videos on MTV, the nation’s hottest new cable station; protesting nuclear arms; and grieving the horrific explosion and deaths aboard the space shuttle Challenger. Americans also watched in wonder as the Soviet Union, the nation’s former enemy, collapsed while U.S. businesses boomed. And the personal computer revolution was on with the dynamic growth of Apple and Microsoft. The decade’s headliners included President Ronald Reagan, pop star diva Madonna, business guru Lee Iacocca, television’s dynamic ne
Author: Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher: Twenty First Century Books
Keywords: america, century, twentieth, decades, 1900s
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-09
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 0822534363
ISBN-13: 9780822534365
What were Americans doing in the 1900s? Listening to phonographs, reading dime novels, watching vaudeville shows, and much more. From workers’ rights to civil liberties, Americans protested injustice in the 1900s. They went on strike for higher pay and shorter working hours and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to combat racial violence. The decade’s most influential people included President Theodore Roosevelt, activist and educator W. E. B. DuBois, women’s suffrage leader Mary Chapman Catt, popular composer George M. Cohan, and aviat
Authors:Archie Hearne III, Garbo Watson Hearne,
Publisher: Hearne Fine Art
Keywords: art, american, african, decades, collaborations
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1607251302
ISBN-13: 9781607251309
Hearne Fine Art in Little Rock, Arkansas, commemorates twenty years of exhibiting and promoting African American art with the publication of Collaborations. The book, featuring internationally and nationally acclaimed artists, including eleven Arkansans, is complete with vivid color reproductions of the artwork of fifty-seven artists. It is organized by medium and features work from artists who have exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Hearne Fine Art. Each image is accompanied by a brief profile of the artist as well as a personal statement. It is a vibrant testimonial to the longevity
Authors:Harry Castleman, Walter J. Podrazik,
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: television, series, american, decades, six, watching
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0815629885
ISBN-13: 9780815629887
"Watching TV" remains the only book about television to go beyond mere alphabetical listings and limited reminiscences about the medium’s most popular programs. Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik present a sweeping season-by-season survey capturing the essence of television from its inception to the present. Castleman and Podrazik have dug through mounds of obscure facts, off-beat anecdotes and the complicated network strategies that have made television a multi-billion-dollar industry. By presenting every prime-time schedule season by season, from the fall of 1944, "Watching TV" pro
Authors:Edmund Lindop, Sarah De Capua,
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Keywords: america, century, twentieth, decades, 1950s
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-09
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 0822576422
ISBN-13: 9780822576426
What were Americans doing in the 1950s? Dancing the stroll, listening to Elvis Presley, gathering around the television, watching satellites orbit Earth, and much more. From the Korean War to the Cold War, Americans also were concerned about serious national and international events. They feared nuclear annihilation and communist spies in the U.S. government. The decade’s newsmakers included President Dwight D. Eisenhower, civil rights pioneers known as the Little Rock Nine, artist Robert Rauschenberg, and tennis player Althea Gibson. They helped set the tone for a decade of change,
Authors:Edmund Lindop, Margaret J. Goldstein,
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Keywords: america, century, twentieth, decades, 1940s
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-09
List price: $38.60
ISBN-10: 0761329455
ISBN-13: 9780761329459
What were Americans doing in the 1940s? Buying war bonds, working in shipyards, and donating blood for soldiers overseas. The 1940s were a serious time in the United States, dominated by World War II. Everyone pitched in to help win the war. Millions of men and women served in the U.S. military. Children collected scrap metal to be made into guns and ammunition. But Americans also took time to have fun. They watched Humphrey Bogart at the movies and listened to big band music on the radio. When the war ended, the United States became a world superpower. The decade’s newsmakers incl
