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An irreverent collection of nonsense from one of America's premiere up and coming humorists. From today's riveting headlines- "College Freshman Thinking It Might Be Time To Break Up With His High School Teacher" -to profiles of today's leading Fortune 500 companies- "Mayday Airlines" -this is a first. A first what, we're not exactly sure. But it's a first!
Sondra H. Gordy and Willie Brooks Johnson discuss the events which occured at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas during the desegregation period in American History.
The officers of the Delta shift for the Crest Police Department in central Oklahoma work the graveyard shift. They work from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. protecting the citizens of the City of Crest. They do routine police work like answering calls for service, traffic enforcement, writing reports and anything that is needed of them to insure the safety and well being of the City of Crest. A large shipment belonging to a criminal enterprise has been lost. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has information about the shipment and they too have lost contact. Local contacts and the criminal enterprise are looking hard for the shipment, but four police officers of the Delta shift have already found it. As this story progresses the suspense on what is going to happen next takes the medium sized City of Crest into an unfamiliar setting of drugs, money, murder, good cops, and bad cops.
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Although he has largely receded from the public consciousness, John Mitchell Jr., the editor and publisher of the Richmond Planet, was well known to many black, and not a few white, Americans in his day. A contemporary of Booker T. Washington, Mitchell contrasted sharply with Washington in temperament. In his career as an editor, politician, and businessman, Mitchell followed the trajectory of optimism, bitter disappointment, and retrenchment that characterized African American life in the Reconstruction and Jim Crow South. Best known for his crusade against lynching in the 1880s, Mitchell was also involved in a number of civil rights crusades that seem more contemporary to the 1950s and 196...