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This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast Louisiana, those folk who were reared in the rural areas, villages, and small towns; who worked on the farms and plantations; sharecropped; cleared all the land; tended all the livestock; planted and harvested all the crops; cooked for, babysat, and cleaned the homes of White folk; and endured the hardships of it all. This is a tribute to those laborers and professionals who strived for better lives for themselves and their families; the people who remained in Monroe, those who migrated to Monroe to make it a fine place to call home, and those who returned to the warmth of Monroe to live; and also, to those who left the area and moved on to other parts of the United States and world. I want to thank them all for trusting me with their stories.
Road Trip to Murder: The Jodi Arias Case is a true crime story; it is about a brutal murder that took place in June 2008 in Mesa, Arizona. The victim, Travis Victor Alexander, a 30 year old Mormon and member of Pre-Paid Legal, was found dead in his home on June 9, 2008 by his roommate and close friends. A 27 year-old California woman, Jodi Ann Arias, a former girlfriend of Travis, was subsequently arrested on July 15, 2008 for the murder; she was extradited from Yreka, California to Maricopa County, Arizona to face the charges against her. Jodi was charged with First Degree Murder in the case and faced the death penalty, if convicted. This book exposes the true story of a murder case, which began with a road trip from Yreka, California ending in a Maricopa County, AZ courtroom that captured the attention of the world with the most anticipated verdict of our time!
Steel Standing: The Bennie Heard, Jr. Story is about a former rising super star in professional boxing, who received two of Georgia's highest honors presented by the Georgia State Legislature, House of Representatives in 1982 for all of his achievements in boxing and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2007, he was nominated and received an Award as Comeback Boxer of the Year 2007; but he found himself embroiled in the fight of his life in 1985, when he was charged with first degree murder in the death of his close friend, while home on a two month medical leave from boxing training. The jury of eleven (11) Whites and one Black deliberated for 13 minutes before rendering their verdict. This swift travesty of injustice changed the course of Bennie Heard, Jr.'s life.
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915, he, like every other African American, could not help but participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened—once with lynching—and consistently subjected to racism's denigration of his humanity. Yet he managed to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard; become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution, Brook...