Showing results for "The Reconstruction" in Biographies & Memoirs

A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide. Over the summer of 2013, the Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II led more than a hundred thousand people at rallies across North Carolina to protest restrictions to...

A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the presidency or...

In Transforming a Federal Agency: Management Lessons from HUD's Financial Reconstruction, finance and strategy expert Irving (Irv) L. Dennis delivers an insightful and eye-opening exploration of the lessons he learned in bringing private sector experience to the transformation of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's financial systems.

In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep in former slave dwellings—revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Since founding the Slave Dwelling Project project in 2010...

Pas si Forte : Inceste, déni, révélation, suicide, deuil reconstruction. Où comment l’inceste m’a volé plus que ma virginité. Il a bouleversé ma vie Être forte n’a pas été une option mais a été ma bouée inconsciente d’une bonne partie de ma vie et j’en ai payé le prix fort. Quelle illusion cette soit disant force. Elle m’a tenu, porté mais elle a tellement faussé la donne vis-à-vis ce que l’on attendait ou espérait de moi. Je lui en ai voulu, aussi étrange que cela puisse paraître car on on excuse pas quelqu’un de fort. Ne pas flancher, garder la ...