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Jim Crow America
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ISBN: 1610752139 9781610752138 9781557288943 9781557288950 1557288941 155728895X Year: 2009 Publisher: Fayetteville University of Arkansas Press

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Catherine M. Lewis is associate professor of history and coordinator of the Public History Program at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of a number of books, including, with J. Richard Lewis, Race, Politics, and Memory: A Documentary History of the Little Rock School Crisis (University of Arkansas Press), The Changing Face of Public History, and Don't Ask What I Shot: How Eisenhower's Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950's America.


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Women and slavery in America
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ISBN: 1610754778 9781610754774 1557289573 1557289581 9781557289575 9781557289582 Year: 2011 Publisher: Fayetteville University of Arkansas Press

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Catherine M. Lewis is professor of history, director of the Museum of History and Holocaust Education, and coordinator of the Public History Program at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of a number of books, including The Changing Face of Public History and Don't Ask What I Shot: How Eisenhower's Love of Golf Helped Shape 1950's America.


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Museums in a global context : national identity, international understanding
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ISBN: 9781933253855 1933253851 Year: 2013 Publisher: Washington, DC : The AAM Press,


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Time to Get Tough: How Cookies, Coffee, and a Crash Led to Success in Business and Life
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ISBN: 0820354619 Year: 2018 Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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Michael J. Coles, the cofounder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree or an MBA from a top-ten business school. He grew up poor, starting work at the age of thirteen. He had many false starts and painful defeats, but Coles has a habit of defying expectations. His life and career have been about turning obstacles into opportunities, tragedies into triumphs, and poverty into philanthropy.In Time to Get Tough, Coles explains how he started a $100-million company with only $8,000, overcame a near-fatal motorcycle accident, ran for the U.S. Congress, and set three transcontinental cycling world records. His story also offers a firsthand perspective on Georgias business, political, and philanthropic climate in the last quarter of the twentieth century and serves as an important case study for students and entrepreneurs interested in practical leadership and unconventional ways of approaching business.


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Soaring: Eleven Guiding Principles on the Path from Segregation to Success
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ISBN: 0820361550 Year: 2022

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"In Soaring, Lee Rhyant explores the struggles of his circumstances which he eventually overcame, climbing to the top of the corporate ladder at Lockheed Martin and Rolls Royce Aerospace, and offers the lessons he took away from his experiences in leadership and business. Born to a family of African American sharecroppers in post-war Georgia, Rhyant's story begins in the Jim Crow South. Forced to work at an early age, Rhyant eventually graduated from Bethune-Cookman University and Indiana University and climbed to a series of "first" executive positions at some of the nation's most respected companies. This book is more than Rhyant's struggles and successes. It is a story that begins and ends in Georgia. It is a story that illuminates the intersections of the southern economy and racial climate in the last few decades of the twentieth century. It is a story that offers pragmatic guidance to students and entrepreneurs of color on their own professional paths"--

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