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Books by Marcus Bruce
Christian
Song of the Black Valiants: Marching Tempo
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High Ground: A Collection of Poems /
Negro soldiers in the Battle of New Orleans
I am New
Orleans: A Poem
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900 /
The Liberty Monument
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Roosevelt
You Learn by Living
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The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt /
This I Remember /
On My Own
My Day the Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed
Newspaper Column1936-1962
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This Is My Story
http://www.amazon.com/Dear Mrs Roosevelt: Letters from Children
of the Great Depression
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Letter 14
Christian Receives a
Thank-You from Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt
THE
WHITE HOUSE
Washington
April
2, 1937
My
dear Mr. Christian:
Mrs.
Roosevelt has asked me to thank you for your letter of March
29th. She was interested to read the poems you attached,
and appreciates your kind thought in sending her the samples of
your handicraft. She will be very glad to accept the little
articles which you mention your are making for her.
Mrs.
Roosevelt was glad to hear of the work you are doing and hopes
you will continue to be employed along such interesting lines.
Very
truly yours,
Malvina
T. Scheider,
Secretary
to Mrs. Roosevelt
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* Eleanor
Roosevelt (1884-1962), one of America's great reforming leaders, had a sustained impact on national
policy toward youth, blacks, women, the poor, and the United
States. As First Lady she broke many precedents. She initiated
weekly press conferences with women reporters, lectured
throughout the country, and had her own radio program. Her
syndicated newspaper column, "My Day," was published
daily for many years. Traveling widely, she served as her
husband's eyes and ears and became a major voice in his
administration for measures to aid underprivileged and racial
minorities.
| As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt was an energetic and
outspoken representative of the needs of people suffering from
the Great Depression. Many of her ideas were incorporated into
the New Deal depression. many of her ideas were incorporated
into the New Deal Social Welfare Program.
During World War II, she expanded her activities to the world
stage, working at the United Nations to help found UNICEF and
establish the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later, she
was named chairman of the Human Rights Commission, at age 61,
was asked to serve, as a delegate to the first meeting of the
General Assembly of the United Nations. |
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Eleanor Roosevelt was quoted as saying, "You
get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good
deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give."
In her later years, Mrs. Roosevelt presided over her large
family at Val-Kill, her home at Hyde Park. She kept up a
voluminous correspondence and a busy social life. "I
suppose I should slow down," she said on her 77th birthday.
She died the next year, on Nov. 7, 1962, in New York City, and
was buried in the rose garden at Hyde park next to her husband.
her many books include
This Is My Story (1937), This
I Remember (1949), and
On My Own (1958).
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Selected Letters
Selected Diary Notes Memories of Marcus B. Christian
(Cains) Christian's
BioBibliographical Record Introduction to I AM NEW
ORLEANS
A
Theory of a Black Aesthetic Magpies,
Goddesses, & Black Male Identity
Activist Works on Next Level of Change
Intro to I Am New
Orleans
Letter from Dillard University
A
Labor of Genuine Love
Letter of Gift of
Photos
Letters from
LSU and Skip Gates * * *
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900
By Marcus Bruce Christian
Study of the blacksmith
tradition and New Orleans famous lace balconies and
fences.
Acclaimed
during his life as the unofficial poet laureate of
the New Orleans African-American community, Marcus
Christian recorded a distinguished career as
historian, journalist, and literary scholar. He was
a contributor to Pelican's
Gumbo Ya Ya, and also wrote many articles
that appeared in numerous newspapers, journals, and
general-interest publications. |
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Audio:
My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. The Economy |
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Panther Baby
A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention
By Jamal Joseph
In the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he’s chair of their School of the Arts film division. Jamal Joseph’s personal odyssey—from the streets of Harlem to Riker’s Island and Leavenworth to the halls of Columbia—is as gripping as it is inspiring. Eddie Joseph was a high school honor student, slated to graduate early and begin college. But this was the late 1960s in Bronx’s black ghetto, and fifteen-year-old Eddie was introduced to the tenets of the Black Panther Party, which was just gaining a national foothold. By sixteen, his devotion to the cause landed him in prison on the infamous Rikers Island—charged with conspiracy as one of the Panther 21 in one of the most emblematic criminal cases of the sixties. When exonerated, Eddie—now called Jamal—became the youngest spokesperson and leader of the Panthers’ New York chapter. He joined the “revolutionary underground,” later landing back in prison. |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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