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Sitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen-building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history.

Many rarely discussed fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourgee, Frances E. W. Harper, Sutton Griggs, George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Thomas Dixon, Owen Wister, and W. E. B. Du Bois are illuminated in significant new ways.

The book's readings seek to synthesize older and recent developments in literary and cultural studies, ranging through new criticism, new historicism, postcolonial studies, black studies, and "whiteness" studies.

This volume posits and answers significant questions. In what ways did the "uplift" projects of Reconstruction--their ideals and their contradictions--affect U.S. colonial policies in the new territories after 1898? How can fiction that treated these historical changes help us understand them? What relevance does this period have for us in the present, during a moment of great literary innovation and strong debate over how well the most powerful country in the world uses its resources? ... Read more

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Could you head off alone to help with one of the biggest disasters in the U.S. history? That's exactly what first-time volunteer Tim Warneka did! Working with a national disaster relief organization, Warneka was assigned to the coastline of Southern Mississippi--right where Katrina came ashore. The only book of its kind, Warneka's emotionally honest, moving account lets you experience what it's like to be on the front lines of a national emergency! ... Read more

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The Reality of Volunteering
Healing Katrina was a powerful look into the reality of volunteering. Timothy's musings and thoughts - not always full of smiles and laughter, but always with real emotions - positions the post-Katrina atmosphere in a new light. Anyone who plans on volunteering in the Delta, or who is thinking about volunteering and is filled with excitement, should read Healing Katrina. By the conclusion, you have a look into the ups and downs, the ebb and flow, of volunteering and of giving your best in a situation that at times has no best to show you. I continue to recommend this book to anyone who wants to volunteer in our post-Katrina world.

Alexis Dobbins

A Real Eye-Opener
Tim Warneka in his book, Healing Katrina, shares his detailed, personal, and compassionate experience, as an American Red Cross Volunteer, in the after math of the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history.Healing Katrina gives a very interesting and fresh look into the `behind the scenes' responsibilities of the volunteers and mental health care professionals assigned to the American Red Cross base in Mississippi.

Extremely insightful and very informative, Tim Warneka has written an excellent resource book.A must read for those who have a heart to help others in crises.

Marsha Johnson is the author of Emerald's Garden How to grieve, mourn, and recover from loss.[...]

Disaster Impacts the Volunteer Also
With the Mississippi Coast reeling from the catastrophe destruction of Hurricane Katrina, Tim Warneka, a clinical counselor from Ohio, volunteers with the American Red Cross. Through his on-site journaling and afterthoughts, he gives emotional insight into his experiences while serving in that devastated area. Tim does not write through the eyes of the clinical counselor that he is, but as one human being to another. The unnamed faces of the Mississippi Gulf Coast become real people who lost everything and are struggling to come to grips with the upheavals of Katrina.
Tim openly shares how the emotional impact of the volunteering spills over into all aspects of the volunteer's life once the mission is completed. For Tim, he gains a new understanding in the post-traumatic symptoms of combat veterans.
This is not a book to be read for enjoyment. Use this book to gain insight into the emotional impact of volunteering during recovery and reconstruction after such natural disasters as hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanoes, etc.

Disturbing, Informational, and Inspiring
In "Healing Katrina" Tim Warneka records his first-hand experience as a volunteer mental health professional with the American Red Cross. Tim was deployed to Mississippi in the immediate aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The book is a compilation of Journal entries, blogs, photographs and commentary covering the two week period of Tim's assignment.Warneka is publishing this work in an effort to raise the awareness level of the American people to the extensive damage and devastation caused by these catastrophic storms.

In the final chapter of the book Tim makes this observation: "Words simply fail to describe the enormity of the destruction caused by the 2005 hurricane season...property damage suffered in the billions of dollars. The psychological, financial, emotional and physical scars will be with us for years to come."

Tim is a true motivator.I found myself wanting to start blogging, and to reestablish my journal writing.I also felt moved to explore the possibility of applying for training with the Red Cross in preparation for the next National or local emergency.

"Healing Katrina" is a book that should be on the reading list of our representatives in Washington, for community service organizations, and for concerned citizens.It is a wake up call to the importance of disaster preparedness and world relief.


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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This collection of writings by eighty-three eighth graders reveal the thoughts, hopes, dreams, and fears of three classes of middle schoolers in a Mississippi school. It is an excellent teaching technique in middle school and high school. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on December 18, 2006. The length of the article is 925 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: School of construction at Southern Miss adds online classes and a location in Gulfport to meet increasing industry needs.
Author: Lynn Lofton
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 18, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 28Issue: 51Page: S31(2)

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In 1961, a black veteran named James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi — and launched a legal revolt against white supremacy in the most segregated state in America. Meredith’s challenge ultimately triggered what Time magazine called “the gravest conflict between federal and state authority since the Civil War,” a crisis that on September 30, 1962, exploded into a chaotic battle between thousands of white civilians and a small corps of federal marshals. To crush the insurrection, President John F. Kennedy ordered a lightning invasion of Mississippi by over 20,000 U.S. combat infantry, paratroopers, military police, and National Guard troops.

Based on years of intensive research, including over 500 interviews, JFK’s White House tapes, and 9,000 pages of FBI files, An American Insurrection is a minute-by-minute account of the crisis. William Doyle offers intimate portraits of the key players, from James Meredith to the segregationist Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, to President John F. Kennedy and the federal marshals and soldiers who risked their lives to uphold the Constitution. The defeat of the segregationist uprising in Oxford was a turning point in the civil rights struggle, and An American Insurrection brings this largely forgotten event to life in all its drama, stunning detail, and historical importance.


From the Trade Paperback edition.Amazon.com Review
William Doyle, author of Inside the Oval Office, calls the forced integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962 "the biggest domestic military crisis of the twentieth century." In An American Insurrection, he delivers a blow-by-blow account of how the school, popularly known as Ole Miss, was opened to black students for the first time. At the center of the tale is James Meredith, a determined but unusual hero gripped by what Doyle calls "an almost messianic vision of destroying the system of white supremacy in Mississippi." Meredith was one of the first black men to serve in the armed forces following its integration, enlisting right out of high school in 1951. He later decided to seek a college education and resolved to get his degree from the all-white precincts of Ole Miss. Through clever plotting and the assistance of a beleaguered civil rights movement, Meredith won admittance to the school, but his troubles had only just begun. Thousands of segregationists descended upon Oxford, Mississippi, to block Meredith from attending class. Their numbers included students, state police, governor Ross Barnett, and an assortment of troublemakers with no real ties to the university. Through it all, Meredith "succeeded in forcing three new allies to his side: the president of the United States, the U.S. Justice Department, and the most powerful military machine in history."

The story recounted in An American Insurrection is inspiring, and Doyle tells it well. It is also fresh, because it has been forgotten in a way other epic civil rights struggles--at Little Rock and Selma, for instance--have not. Meredith never took his place beside Rosa Parks as a celebrated hero of the civil rights movement; its leaders wound up regarding him as something of an annoyance. As Doyle writes, "Meredith maintained a ruthless, jarring intellectual integrity and courage that considered the traditional discussion of civil rights as an insult to him as an American citizen, as invalid, even preposterous." The key word is "jarring": Meredith spent his later years rebuking the NAACP and working for conservative senator Jesse Helms. Admirers of Diane McWhorter's Carry Me Home and other readers interested in the civil rights movement will enjoy An American Insurrection--and nobody will suppress a smile during Doyle's description of graduation day, when Meredith wore one of the red-and-white "Ross Is Right" badges distributed by his foes. It was hidden under his robes, turned upside down. --John Miller ... Read more

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Great detailed account
William Doyle has written an excellent account of the events surrounding Meredith's entry into Ole Miss.Particularly noteworthy is his detailed account of the behind the scenes negotiations between the Kennedys and Mississippi's segregationist governor, Ross Barnett.The book's depiction of the riot is also rich: Doyle vividly potrays the chaos that reigned in Oxford during the riot.The narration is gripping and this book is an entertaining read.

I thought the book was not nearly as strong in the final 30 pages.There is no clear direction to the book's "conclusion."Doyle sort of vasillates between providing updates on the book's main characters and attempting to place the riot into a historical perspective.While both are interesting, this portion of the book drags on.

Overall, a very enjoyable read.

I was there on that very morning.
I am 62 years old now. On that morning when
the 716th MP Battalion was brought to the campus,
I was in one of the groups exactly as pictured in
the middle of the book. At the time I had no idea
what the big picture was. I just did as I was told.
I was in the army for about a year prior to that day,
but never had live ammunition except for practice.
We had our gas masks on and our bayonets fixed. We
were each handed one clip of live ammunition for
our M-1 rifles. I vividly remember my knees literally
knocking together as we stood there waiting for the
trouble that never came at that time. We had heard
that a soldier had been killed prior to that. This
book is giving me the big picture and a full under-
standing of how we got there and why we were there.
I am finding this book to be riviting and educational.
I heartily recommend it. Mike Cuggino, NY.

Absorbing reading
While one can quibble with some things in this book (the author seems to draw on anti-Kennedy books for his material on the Kennedys) all in all it tells the story well, and is really exciting, even tho one is appalled that there could be in the 20th century such benighted persons as instigated and participated in the insurrection to prevent a student entering Ole Miss.The last chapter tho makes a person feel better and I am glad the author spent some time finding out what happened to the people involved in the tumultous events of October, 1962.How pleasant to know that the student body president, the newspaper editor, the quarterback, and the head basketball coach in 2000-2001 were all African-American, and how stupid the rioters must feel now about the views they had in 1962. This is a popular account but it is great reading.

pompous
found this to be superficial and pompous. it overwrites facts and at the end fails to provide sufficient perspective. i am an academic and would not use for my students.

One hell of a ripping yarn....
Mr. Doyle has done very well what so many others have failed at.He has taken the stuff of a compelling story and told it as a straightforward and detailed narrative that needs no excessive or distracting "artfulness" to make it live on the page.Here are real, hateful villains, conflicted heroes, confused bureaucrats and the inscrutably zen-like James Meredith.Every one of these individuals - with the possible exception of Meredith - is caught up in circumstances way beyond his "job description" and required by fate to draw his best or worst abilities to the tasks he has been drawn into.
Whatever anyone else may say about this book it is first and foremost a wonderfully compelling reading experience.As a writer of history, Doyle is right up there with McCullough, Ambrose and Goodwin as a writer of skill, insight and a willingness to let the story take the front seat.You will appreciate this book; you will respect this story; but most of all you will savor every minute you spend reading it. ... Read more

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This monograph examines the role of the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger in the adoption of the landmark 1982 Education Reform Act by the Mississippi State Legislature. The Ledger was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for public service for its massive coverage of a special legislative session that enacted significant educational reforms in Mississippi. ... Read more

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Annie is the only person in her large family to graduate from high school. She dreams of making something of herself and living in the mountains of Colorado, but she's stuck in Soso, Mississippi, working menial jobs to put herself through junior college. At age twenty-three, she musters the courage and financial support to move away from home to attend the university. It's just thirty miles from Soso, but a universe away, to Annie.

At college, Annie experiences her first date, first love, and first rejection. She works three jobs to help pay expenses, even though she receives modest financial help from the Prices––benefactors who exact a costly psychological toll in return.

Annie's parents have no concept of the demands of college, and they're too wrapped up in their own problems to care. They keep pulling at her emotions, and Annie finds herself going home on weekends to clean and listen to their troubles while trying to cope with her classes and jobs.

"Home" is a filthy roach-infested rental house. The family's been evicted from countless others like it. Mama and Annie have to share a bed. There's hardly any food. Annie is too ashamed to bring anyone home.

The main reason they live this way is Daddy. He's a self-ordained preacher, a Jimmy Swaggart wannabe. Yet he lusts for women, eats like a pig, and rarely works a steady job. His only real occupation is watching TV and griping back at the newscasters.

Mama says she hates sex, although she bore five girls and miscarried many more. Though she resents Daddy's laziness and cusses the living daylights out of him, she won't leave him. She works at a curb store so that the family can have health insurance and food. She has to guard her wallet so Daddy won't steal what little she earns.

When Annie falls in love with Thomas, the clash between her college lifestyle and home life grows to a crisis. Annie's lies catch up with her and eventually lead to more heartache.

The Education of Annie shows the journey Annie takes toward self-acceptance and independence. The subject matter and settings would seem dismal, except that the story is interwoven with threads of love and humor, and presents an array of memorable characters. ... Read more

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A powerfully written "coming of age" story
The Education Of Annie by Angie Cameron is the story of Annie Rochelle Lee, a college-bound young woman who is caught between a dysfunctional home life and intense pressures to succeed in the outside world. When Annie falls in love with a young man, her habit of lying to herself about how things are (a survival tactic adopted while growing up), threatens to destroy any hope of a meaningful and successful relationship. The Education Of Annie is recommended as a powerfully written "coming of age" story about a young woman's heart-felt search for emotional stability and personal independence. ... Read more

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Having graduated from high school in Loveland, Colorado-'America's Sweetheart City'-where he was quarterback and captain of the football team, president of his student body and prom king, Bryce Hach decided that he pretty much had public-school life figured out. Four years later, when he became a high school teacher and football coach deep in the Mississippi Delta, he discovered that he still had a lot to learn ... This is a story about America, public schools, educational challenges, racial issues, poverty-and-wealth and radically differing lifestyles. It's also a story about warmth and friendship and how both the students and (especially) their novice teacher learned something new about each other and life. While a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, Bryce Hach decided, upon the advice of several professors, to write a memoir based on his experiences in the Mississippi Delta while working in the Teach For America program. This that story. FROM THE BOOK:The school bus was horribly ancient. Holes on the bottom presented the road running under my feet and the bus headlights offered little visual safety after the sun went down. Most driving took place on dusty dirt roads, far from civilization. Our players lived in remote locations that required crossing rickety bridges I thought only existed in children's scary fairy tales. As the bus slowly edged forward across each bridge, I gripped tightly to the steering wheel and my players gripped their seats in case we fell through into the river basin below. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bryce attended Colorado College in Colorado Springs and then participated in the Teach For American program, working for two years as a high school teacher and football coach in Marks, Mississippi, a small, rural community in the Mississippi Delta.In 2008, Bryce was named as an 40 Under Forty award recipient by the Northern Colorado Business Report as one of the forty top professionals in Northern Colorado. He also received the 'Friend of Science' award by the Colorado Association of Science Teachers. Bryce currently serves as Executive Director of Homeward 2020, a multi-sector driven effort to end homelessness in Fort Collins, Colorado. Bryce and his wife Sarah live with their daughter, Ivy, in Fort Collins, Colorado. ... Read more

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Interesting Insight into America
I really enjoyed reading this book about a young teacher who was assigned to the Mississippi Delta area as part of the Teach for America program. The book offered an interesting insight about how someone raised in affluent suburbia experienced a different part of our own country that most people have no concept of. Having personally been to Tunica, MS several times previously, I was able to relate to some of what the author discussed. The book was both entertaining and informative and a good short read most people would probably enjoy. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mississippi Business Journal, published by Venture Publications on February 16, 2004. The length of the article is 896 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Education, training critical to job gains in Mississippi.(As I See It)
Author: Joe D. Jones
Publication: Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 16, 2004
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 26Issue: 7Page: 4(1)

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ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Scene:The Mississippi Valley Time:Forty to fifty years ago



CHAPTER I.

YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.That book was made
by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.There was things which
he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.That is nothing.I never
seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or
the widow, or maybe Mary.Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and
Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is
mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Now the way that the book winds up is this:Tom and me found the money
that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich.We got six
thousand dollars apiece--all gold.It was an awful sight of money when
it was piled up.Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at
interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round
--more than a body could tell what to do with.The Widow Douglas she took
me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough
living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and
decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no
longer I lit out.I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again,
and was free and satisfied.But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he
was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back
to the widow and be respectable.So I went back.

The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she
called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.
She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat
and sweat, and feel all cramped up.Well, then, the old thing commenced
again.The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time.
When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to
wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the
victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them,--that
is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself.In a barrel of odds
and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of
swaps around, and the things go better.

After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the
Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by
she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then
I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead
people.

Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and asked the widow to let me.But she
wouldn't.She said it was a mean practice and wasn't clean, and I must
try to not do it any more.That is just the way with some people.They
get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it.Here she was
a-bothering about Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody,
being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a
thing that had some good in it.And she took snuff, too; of course that
was all right, because she done it herself.

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An excerpt from the book -

THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were
unchanged. When one goes flying through London along a railway propped
in the air on tall arches, he may inspect miles of upper bedrooms
through the open windows, but the lower half of the houses is under his
level and out of sight. Similarly, in high-river stage, in the New
Orleans region, the water is up to the top of the enclosing levee-rim,
the flat country behind it lies low--representing the bottom of a dish--
and as the boat swims along, high on the flood, one looks down upon the
houses and into the upper windows. There is nothing but that frail
breastwork of earth between the people and destruction.

The old brick salt-warehouses clustered at the upper end of the city
looked as they had always looked; warehouses which had had a kind of
Aladdin's lamp experience, however, since I had seen them; for when the
war broke out the proprietor went to bed one night leaving them packed
with thousands of sacks of vulgar salt, worth a couple of dollars a
sack, and got up in the morning and found his mountain of salt turned
into a mountain of gold, so to speak, so suddenly and to so dizzy a
height had the war news sent up the price of the article.

The vast reach of plank wharves remained unchanged, and there were as
many ships as ever:but the long array of steamboats had vanished; not
altogether, of course, but not much of it was left.
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This digital document is an article from Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States, 4th ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 6449 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.This resource focuses on the facts and details of every state in the U.S., including the District of Columbia and U.S. dependencies. Entries cover the geography, history, politics, economy, and other facts about each state. ... Read more