Mammals of Wisconsin
Seiten
1961
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-02150-4 (ISBN)
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-02150-4 (ISBN)
There is little doubt that this book will be considered the standard reference work in Wisconsin for generations. The Science Teacher
Today, it is indeed the standard work in its field the most comprehensive, useful, and enjoyable mammal guide for the entire North Central States region.
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Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children through the 1940s, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime rhetoric about American ideals. In Milwaukee she and her brothers persevered through racial rebuffs and discrimination to find work. Barred by both her gender and color from employment in the city s factories, Sylvia scrubbed floors, worked as a nurse s aide, and took adult education courses. When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother Daniel Bell in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it until twenty years later, when one of the two officers involved in the incident unexpectedly came forward. Daniel s siblings filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and ultimately won that four-year legal battle. Sylvia was the driving force behind their quest for justice. Telling her whole life story in these pages, Sylvia emerges as a buoyant spirit, a sparkling narrator, and, above all, a powerful witness to racial injustice. Jody LePage s chapter introductions frame the narrative in a historical span that reaches from Sylvia s own enslaved grandparents to the nation s first African American president. Giving depth to that wide sweep, this oral history brings us into the presence of an extraordinary individual. Rarely does such a voice receive a hearing.
Winner, Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit"
Today, it is indeed the standard work in its field the most comprehensive, useful, and enjoyable mammal guide for the entire North Central States region.
"
Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children through the 1940s, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime rhetoric about American ideals. In Milwaukee she and her brothers persevered through racial rebuffs and discrimination to find work. Barred by both her gender and color from employment in the city s factories, Sylvia scrubbed floors, worked as a nurse s aide, and took adult education courses. When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother Daniel Bell in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it until twenty years later, when one of the two officers involved in the incident unexpectedly came forward. Daniel s siblings filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and ultimately won that four-year legal battle. Sylvia was the driving force behind their quest for justice. Telling her whole life story in these pages, Sylvia emerges as a buoyant spirit, a sparkling narrator, and, above all, a powerful witness to racial injustice. Jody LePage s chapter introductions frame the narrative in a historical span that reaches from Sylvia s own enslaved grandparents to the nation s first African American president. Giving depth to that wide sweep, this oral history brings us into the presence of an extraordinary individual. Rarely does such a voice receive a hearing.
Winner, Wisconsin Historical Society Book Award of Merit"
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.6.2013 |
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| Verlagsort | Wisconsin |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 175 x 251 mm |
| Gewicht | 1000 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-299-02150-5 / 0299021505 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-299-02150-4 / 9780299021504 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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