The Biography of a River Town: Memphis, Its Heroic Age, Gerald M. Capers Jr

Автор: Johnson, Russell
Название: Memphis: then and now(r)
ISBN: 191121697X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911216971
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Using archive photos matched with the same viewpoint today, Memphis Then and Now charts 150 years of Memphis history.

Автор: Otis L. Sanford
Название: From Boss Crump to King Willie: How Race Changed Memphis Politics
ISBN: 1621904172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781621904175
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: From Boss Crump to King Willie offers an in-depth look at the vital role that race played in the political evolution of Memphis, from the rise of longtime political boss Edward Hull Crump to the election of Dr. Willie Herenton as the city's first black mayor. Filled with vivid details on the workings of municipal politics, this accessible account by veteran journalist Otis Sanford explores the nearly century-long struggle by African Americans in Memphis to secure recognition from local leaders and gain a viable voice in the city's affairs.Sanford explains how, in 1909, Crump won his first election as mayor without black support but then immediately sought to woo and keep the black vote in order to maintain his political machine for the next two generations. The African American community overwhelmingly supported the Crump organization because he at least listened and responded to some of their concerns, while other white leaders completely ignored them. The book probes Crump's hot-and-cold relationship with local newspaper editors, some of whom castigated his machine politics, and examines the press's influence on the political and civic life of the city. It also shows how, amid longstanding racism and poverty in Memphis, the black community nevertheless produced many prominent business, religious, and political leaders, most of whom had an amicable relationship with ""Boss"" Crump.The book goes on to explore the political vacuum that ensued after Crump's death in 1954, and the factors that led to African Americans becoming the majority voting population in the city following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Through the civil rights movement and beyond, black Memphians kept up their fight for recognition and inclusion. That fight culminated in the election of Dr. Herenton, a well-educated native son who proved to be the right man at the right time to make racial and political history in the city. Additionally, the book compares the racial climate in Memphis with that in other southern cities during the height of the civil rights movement.

Автор: Astor Vincent
Название: Memphis Movie Theatres
ISBN: 1531668208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531668204
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Цена: 29420.00 T
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Автор: Williams Charles
Название: African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound: Case Study of a Black Community in Memphis, Tennessee, 1890-1980
ISBN: 0739175858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739175859
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of the unincorporated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919.

Автор: Dye Robert W.
Название: Memphis Zoo
ISBN: 153167111X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531671112
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Цена: 29420.00 T
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Название: The Powell Expedition: New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell`s 1869 River Journey
ISBN: 1948908204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781948908207
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition down the Green and Colorado Rivers and through the Grand Canyon continues to be one of the most celebrated adventures in American history, ranking with the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Apollo landings on the moon. For nearly twenty years Lago has researched the Powell expedition from new angles, traveled to thirteen states, and looked into archives and other sources no one else has searched. He has come up with many important new documents that change and expand our basic understanding of the expedition by looking into Powell's crewmembers, some of whom have been almost entirely ignored by Powell historians. Historians tended to assume that Powell was the whole story and that his crewmembers were irrelevant. More seriously, because several crew members made critical comments about Powell and his leadership, historians who admired Powell were eager to ignore and discredit them.Lago offers a feast of new and important material about the river trip, and it will significantly rewrite the story of Powell's famous expedition. This book is not only a major work on the Powell expedition, but on the history of American exploration of the West.

Автор: Victor Gruen
Название: Shopping Town: Designing the City in Suburban America
ISBN: 1517902096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517902094
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping Town is the long overdue account of a man whose work fundamentally altered the course of city development. Shopping Town opens in Vienna in 1938 with the Anschluss-the turning point in Gruen’s life-as he narrowly escaped the Nazi regime. A few years later, in the suburbs of postwar America, the Jewish refugee sought to reproduce the vitality of Vienna’s city center and invented the commercial apparatus now known as the shopping mall. Gruen’s Southdale Mall in Edina, Minnesota, was the first fully enclosed shopping center in America. He then translated the concept to economically neglected city centers, setting the path for pedestrian zones and fighting passionately for an urban ideal without compromise. Highlighting Gruen’s sense of humor as well as reflections on the complex forces that sustained the postwar transformation of American cities, Shopping Town embeds Gruen’s experiences and perspectives in a wider social and political context while helping us understand his problematic place in American architectural culture. With afterwords by his son and daughter, Shopping Town closes with Anette Baldauf’s richly insightful essay on the legacy of Victor Gruen.

Автор: Gritter Elizabeth
Название: River of Hope: Black Politics and the Memphis Freedom Movement, 1865--1954
ISBN: 0813144507 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813144504
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Gritter examines how and why black Memphians mobilized politically in the period between Reconstruction and the beginning of the civil rights movement.

Автор: Beauregard Michael A.
Название: West Memphis
ISBN: 1531668836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531668839
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 29420.00 T
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