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Avenues of faith
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ISBN: 0817313583 9780817313586 9780817310769 0817310762 Year: 2001 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press

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Avenues of Faith documents how religion flourished in southern cities after the turn of the century and how a cadre of clergy and laity created a notably progressive religious culture in Richmond, the bastion of the Old South. Famous as the former capital of the Confederacy, Richmond emerges as a dynamic and growing industrial city invigorated by the social activism of its Protestants. By examining six mainline white denominations-Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Disciples of Christ, and Lutherans-Samuel C. Shepherd Jr. emphasizes the extent to which


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Richmond's priests and prophets : race, religion, and social change in the Civil Rights era
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ISBN: 0817390790 9780817390792 9780817319175 0817319174 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tuscaloosa, [Alabama] : The University of Alabama Press,

Rearing wolves to our own destruction
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ISBN: 0813929172 9786613885203 1283572753 0585121613 9780585121611 9780813929170 6613885207 9781283572750 0813918340 9780813918341 0813918332 9780813918334 081392099X 9780813920993 Year: 1999 Publisher: Charlottesville University Press of Virginia

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Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction offers a valuable portrait of urban slavery in an individual city that raises questions about the adaptability of slavery as an institution to an urban setting and, more importantly, the ways in which slaves were able to turn urban working conditions to their own advantage.

Civil War weather in Virginia
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ISBN: 0817380485 9780817380489 9780817315771 0817315772 Year: 2007 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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This work fills a tremendous gap in our available knowledge in a fundamental area of Civil War studies, that of basic quotidian information on the weather in the theater of operations in the vicinity of Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia. Krick adds to the daily records kept by amateur meteorologists in these two locations. Anecdotal descriptions of weather found in contemporary soldiers' dairies and correspondence combines these scattered records into a chronology of weather information that also includes daybreak and sunset times for each day. The information in Civil War Weath


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Whispers of rebellion
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ISBN: 1280678186 9786613655110 0813932068 9780813932064 0813931932 9780813931937 9781280678189 6613655112 0813935091 Year: 2012 Publisher: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press

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The author looks at the state's swift and brutal response, and argues persuasively that, rather than the coalition between blacks and whites that has been described in other accounts, the participants were all slaves or free blacks, suffering under an oppressive white population and willing to die for their freedom.

White girl : a story of school desegregation
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ISBN: 0820345881 9780820345888 0820326623 9780820326627 0820345091 1299808115 Year: 2004 Publisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press,

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This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. Like many students at the vanguard of this great social experiment, sixth-grader Clara Silverstein was spit on, tripped, and shoved by her new schoolmates. At other times she was shunned altogether. In the conventional imagery of the civil rights era, someone in Silverstein's situation would be black. She was white, however--one of the few white students in her entire school. "My story is usually lost in the historical accounts of busing," Silverstein writes. At the predominantly black public schools she attended in Richmond, Virginia, Silverstein dealt daily with the unintended, unforeseen consequences of busing as she also negotiated the typical passions and concerns of young adulthood--all with little direction from her elders, who seemed just as bewildered by the changes around them. When Silverstein developed a crush on a black boy, when yet another of her white schoolmates switched to a private school, when she naively came to class wearing a jacket with a Confederate flag on it, she was mostly on her own to contend with the fallout. Silverstein's father had died when she was seven. Another complication: she was Jewish. As her black schoolmates viewed her through the veil of race, Silverstein gazed back through her private grief and awareness of religious difference. Inspired by her parents' ideals, Silverstein remained in the public schools despite the emotional stakes. "I was lost," she admits. "If I learned nothing else, I did come to understand the scourge of racism." Her achingly honest story, woven with historical details, confronts us with powerful questions about race and the use of our schools to engineer social change.


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Latinos in Dixie
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ISBN: 1438428812 9781438428819 1438428790 1438428804 9781438428796 9781438428802 Year: 2009 Publisher: Albany SUNY Press

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A look at the Latino experience in the American South using data from Richmond, Virginia.

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