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Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran -- and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been...
Author
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity
Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 113-486
Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
University Publications of America
Pub. Date
[1986?]
Language
English
Description
Correspondence and telegrams about the bill, proposed by Senator Ridgely P. Melvin, to create scholarships for Afro-American students in the State of Maryland. Contains a copy of the bill: A Bill entitled An Act to add a sub-title and eight new sections to Article 49B of the Annotated Code of Maryland, 1935 Supplement, title "Interacial Commission", said sub-title to read "Negro Scholarships"...
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Publisher
University Publications of America
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Major topics: Efforts of Guilford College to recruit African American students; essay contest on racial segregation; Antidiscrimination articles in student newspapers at Rice University and at the University of Georgia; requests for reactions to admission of African Americans to southern colleges in Texas, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia; NAACP faculty integration project.