Author: Melba Pattillo Beals
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Keywords: don, warriors
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 1416948821
ISBN-13: 9781416948827
An innocent teenager.An unexpected hero.In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School.Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob’s rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity an
Author: Percy Colson
Publisher: Dyson Press
Keywords: biography, unconventional, melba
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1406735183
ISBN-13: 9781406735185
V t i v i ut --y . A, MEBB AN UNCONVENTIONAL BIOGRAPHY BY PERCY COLSON Les dieux sont de nos jours les matt res souverains Mais, Seigneur, notre gloire est dans nos propres mains. RACINE GRAYSON GRAYSON CURZON STREET MAYFAIR LONDON , , t First Published by , fy yteft 6 Grayson Ltd, 1932 Printed in Great Britain by Northumberland Press Ltd. DE 19 A TRIBUTE TO THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO MELBA AND ESPECIALLY TO THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY FROM WHICH SHE TOOK HER NAME PREFACE THE life of a famous singer offers perhaps, less scope to the biographer for the accomplishment of his fell purpose
Author: Melba Duncan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: succeeding, career, advice, assistant, executive, new
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-02-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0070182418
ISBN-13: 9780070182417
Today’s executive assistant has become a crucial member of every organization’s support staff--a key business ally with diverse responsibilities, from overseeing employees to making strategic decisions. Here is the first step-by-step guide specifically designed to help you thrive in this fast-paced profession. Developed by nationally-known business consultatnt and author Melba Duncan, this leading-edge resource provides all the up-to-date information you need to manage information technologes, deal effectively with abrupt organizational changes and office politics, handle stress, r
Author: Melba Luverne Pierre
Publisher: IUniverse
Keywords: maintenance, care, freedom, handguns
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2002-12-03
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 059526056X
ISBN-13: 9780595260560
Authors:Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Melba Porter Hay, James C.
Publisher: Kentucky Historical Society
Keywords: land, kentucky
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-07-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0916968251
ISBN-13: 9780916968250
Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky The history and beauty of the Bluegrass State come alive in words and pictures, as this volume chronicles the Kentucky experience in all its variety. Rare black-and white historic images combine with more than two hundred modern color photographs to complement a narrative written by some of the commonwealth’s most celebrated wordsmiths: Thomas D. Clark, George Ella Lyon, John Ed Pearce, Gerald L. Smith, Michal Smith-Mello, and Michael T. Childress. Photographs by Dan Dry of Louisville, Kentuc
Author: Aurolyn Melba Hamm
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: georgia, america, black, county, elbert
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-01-26
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738517577
ISBN-13: 9780738517575
Elbert County, the granite capital of the world, is nestled in the northeast corner of Georgia, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The educational and political journey of many African Americans in this county began at Elbert Colored High School. African Americans in Elbert County helped shape their community and their country through sheer determination and faith, in the face of slavery and laws biased against them.
Author: Melba Porter Hay
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: supplement, clay, henry, papers
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1992-06
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0813100615
ISBN-13: 9780813100616
