Автор: Lonely Planet Karlin, Adam Armstrong, Kate Harrell, Ashley Raub, Kevin St Louis, Regis Название: Lonely planet florida & the south`s best trips ISBN: 1787015688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787015685 Издательство: Lonely Planet Цена: 15830 T Описание: Discover the freedom of the open road with Lonely Planet`s Florida & the South`s Best Trips. This trusted travel companion features 30 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures. Trace the iconic Appalachian Trail or explore the roots of the Blues Highway. Get to Florida and the South, rent a car, and hit the road!
Автор: Colton Larry Название: Southern League: A True Story of Baseball, Civil Rights, and the Deep South`s Most Compelling Pennant Race ISBN: 1455511889 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781455511884 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Цена: 20900.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation."
Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail 1963 Anybody who is familiar with the Civil Rights movement knows that 1964 was a pivotal year. And in Birmingham, Alabama - perhaps the epicenter of racial conflict - the Barons amazingly started their season with an integrated team. Johnny "Blue Moon" Odom, a talented pitcher and Tommie Reynolds, an outfielder - both young black ballplayers with dreams of playing someday in the big leagues, along with Bert Campaneris, a dark-skinned shortstop from Cuba, all found themselves in this simmering cauldron of a minor league town, all playing for Heywood Sullivan, a white former major leaguer who grew up just down the road in Dothan, Alabama. Colton traces the entire season, writing about the extraordinary relationships among these players with Sullivan, and Colton tells their story by capturing the essence of Birmingham and its citizens during this tumultuous year. (The infamous Bull Connor, for example, when not ordering blacks to be blasted by powerful water hoses, is a fervent follower of the Barons and served as a long-time broadcaster of their games.) By all accounts, the racial jeers and taunts that rained down upon these Birmingham players were much worse than anything that Jackie Robinson ever endured. More than a story about baseball, this is a true accounting of life in a different time and clearly a different place. Seventeen years after Jackie Robinson had broken the color line in the major leagues, Birmingham was exploding in race riots....and now, they were going to have their very first integrated sports team. This is a story that has never been told.
