Fighting For Taylor

Download or read book Fighting for Citizenship written by Brian Taylor and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fighting for Citizenship, Brian Taylor complicates existing interpretations of why black men fought in the Civil War. Civil War–era African Americans recognized the urgency of a core political concern: how best to use the opportunity presented by this conflict over slavery to win abolition and secure enduring black rights, goals that had eluded earlier generations of black veterans. Some, like Frederick Douglass, urged immediate enlistment to support the cause of emancipation, hoping that a Northern victory would bring about the end of slavery. But others counseled patience and negotiation, drawing on a historical memory of unfulfilled promises for black military service in previous American wars and encouraging black men to leverage their position to demand abolition and equal citizenship. In doing this, they also began redefining what it meant to be a black man who fights for the United States. These debates over African Americans' enlistment expose a formative moment in the development of American citizenship: black Northerners' key demand was that military service earn full American citizenship, a term that had no precise definition prior to the Fourteenth Amendment. In articulating this demand, Taylor argues, black Northerners participated in the remaking of American citizenship itself—unquestionably one of the war's most important results.

Download or read book Fighting for Taylor written by Kimberly Moore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fighting for Taylor presents the autobiographical story of a single mother struggling against the odds to support her child through social, economic, and educational challenges"--Back cover.

Download or read book Fighting for Taylor written by Kimberly Moore and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity. That the happiness of one person or nation is the happiness of humanity. Fighting for Taylor presents the autobiographical story of a single mother struggling against the odds to support her child through social, economic, and educational challenges. The whispering among the nurses in the operating room when her son, Taylor is born signals to Kimberly that something about her baby is cause for concern, Her life quickly shifts to a world in which she must continuously fight to provide the best possible life for her child. Who was born with Down syndrome and later diagnosed with Autism. To make matters more difficult, her relationship with her husband is rapidly deteriorating, as his drinking and domestic violence escalated-factors that lead to the end of their marriage. As the years pass, she gathers her strength from her beautiful little boy. As she traverses the various social, economic and beautiful obstacles, she presents many thought-provoking ideas to help other parents find the emotional, financial and spiritual support their children need. What she discovers is a system designed to work against the best interest of children with special needs in todays schools. She fights for inclusion of all children in the educational system, regardless of their abilities or inabilities.

Download or read book Fighting for Air written by Taylor McNiff and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aubrey Pierce was shattered three years ago, when the man of her dreams warped her life into a nightmare. Bruised and broken, Aubrey turns to Mixed Martial Arts, finding comfort int eh control as she begins piecing herself back together. Just as she gets her feet on solid ground, she begins training at a new gym under a new trainer. This man brings with him a past dark enough to match hers, and just enough sexual tension to keep things interesting. Running on coffee and trust issues, Aubrey must confront the complicated question that haunts many survivors of domestic abuse: Can I love again?Caden Larson is raising his two sisters on his own, giving up his one shot at a contract to fight professionally in order to keep the family together. Between grave site visits, shifts at the police department, and trying to get his sister to dance lessons, Caden is stretched thin. Staying true to who he is, he still can't say no when his best friend asks for a favor. The last thing he needs is to train a girl full of ice and anger, especially when she starts to burrow under his skin. Over time, the girl that drives him wild with irritation starts to drive him wild in a few more interesting ways, and Caden is faced with the possibility that, for once, maybe he should be a little selfish. Told from both Caden and Aubrey's perspective, Fighting For Air is an exhibit on how two people can heal when they fight their demons together.This novel has adult content that includes, but is not limited to, drug abuse, coarse language, and physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Fighting For Air is book one in a planned series. Book two will be available Summer 2018!!

Download or read book Zachary Taylor written by K. Jack Bauer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an enigma.” He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong feeling for the common man, an energetic yet cautious and conservative soldier. Not an intellectual, Taylor showed little curiosity about the world around him. In this biography—the most comprehensive since Holman Hamilton’s two-volume work published forty years ago—Bauer offers a fresh appraisal of Taylor’s life and suggests that Taylor may have been neither so simple nor so nonpolitical as many historians have believed. Taylor’s sixteen months as president were marked by disputes over California statehood and the Texas–New Mexico boundary. Taylor vehemently opposed slavery extension and threatened to hang those southern hotheads who favored violence and secession as a means to protect their interests. He died just as he had begun a reorganization of his administration and a recasting of the Whig party. Balanced and judicious, forthright and unreverential, and based on thoroughgoing research, this book will be for many years the standard biography of Zachary Taylor.

Download or read book Taylor's Party Dilemma written by D. R. Whitehead and published by D. R. Whitehead . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we go again! Every year I get invited to Prissy Missy Mary’s party and every year I don’t want to go. After Mary and I had a big fight, there was no way I was going to her party…until my BFF’s Janie and Amanda talk me into going. Once I get to the party, I can’t believe what I find out about Mary. Should I tell everyone what I found out or help Mary with her problem?

Download or read book Statement of Rear Admiral David W. Taylor, Chief Constructor and Chief of Bureau of Construction and Repair, United States Navy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: