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Wilmington's lie : the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy / by Zucchino, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."By 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina, was a shining example of a mixed-race community-a bustling port city with a thriving African American middle class and a government made up of Republicans and Populists, including black alderman, police officers, and magistrates. But across the state-and the South-white supremacist Democrats were working to reverse the advances made by former slaves and their progeny. They were plotting to take back the state legislature in the November 8th election and then use a controversial editorial published by black newspaper editor Alexander Manly to trigger a "race riot" to overthrow the elected government in Wilmington. With a coordinated campaign of intimidation and violence, the Democrats sharply curtailed the black vote and stuffed ballot boxes to steal the 1898 mid-term election. Two days later, more than 2,000 heavily armed white nightriders known as Red Shirts swarmed through Wilmington, terrorizing women and children and shooting at least sixty black men dead in the streets. The rebels forced city officials and leading black citizens to flee at gun point while hundreds of local African Americans took refuge in nearby swamps and forests. This brutal insurrection is the only violent overthrow of an elected government in U.S. history. It halted gains made by blacks and restored racism as official government policy, cementing white rule for another seventy years. It was not a "race riot" as the events of November 1898 came to be known, but rather a racially-motivated rebellion launched by white supremacists. In Wilmington's Lie, David Zucchino uses contemporary newspaper reports, diaries, letters, and official communications to create a gripping narrative that weaves together individual stories of hate, fear, and brutality. This is a dramatic and definitive account of a remarkable but forgotten chapter of American history"--
Subjects: African Americans; White supremacy movements; Wilmington Race Riot, Wilmington, N.C., 1898.;
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Ancient Egypt / by Oachs, Emily Rose.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.The Opet Festival -- Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? -- How the Ancient Egyptians Ruled -- Daily Life -- Beliefs and Culture -- The Fall of Ancient Egypt"Engaging images accompany information about ancient Egypt. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisherLSC
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The triumphant / by Livingston, Lesley.;
When Caesar is murdered, Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices lose their protector and, realizing that Cleopatra is now in grave danger, travel to Alexandria, Egypt, for her safety and theirs.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Caesar, Julius; Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C.; Gladiators; Princesses; Rescues;
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Camera girl : the coming of age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy / by Anthony, Carl Sferrazza,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Camera Girl brings to cinematic life Jackie Kennedy's years as a young woman chafing at the expectations of her family and her era as she seeks to follow her dreams of becoming a famous writer. Set primarily during the underexamined years of 1950-1954, when Jackie was 20 to 25 years old, the book recounts the extraordinary story of her late college years, coming-of-age, and her life as a young female journalist. Before she met Jack Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier was a columnist at the Washington Times-Herald, the paper's "Inquiring Camera Girl," who posed intelligent and amusing questions to the public on the streets of D.C. (while also snapping their photos with her unwieldy Leica camera). She then fashioned the results into a daily column, 600 of which were published in total. Carl Anthony, author and leading expert on First Ladies, uses these columns and other writings of hers from that time, as well as a trove of revealing interviews he has conducted with her friends and colleagues, to offer a fresh and modern perspective on the young woman who would later become one of the world's most beloved icons. It's a glamorous, surprising, and distinctly feminist story about a woman determining her own priorities and defining herself, told with admiration and empathy, as well as journalistic rigor and historical accuracy"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994.; Times-herald (Washington, D.C.); Celebrities; Presidents' spouses; Women journalists;
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Egyptian hieroglyphs / by Scott, Henry Joseph,1917-; Scott, Lenore,1923-;
Subjects: Egyptian language; Ciphers;
© 1998., Hippocrene,
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Three Sisters Bar and Hotel : a novel / by Govier, Katherine.;
Subjects: Mystery fiction.$2gsafd.; Archaelogical expeditions; Sisters;
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Ming tea murder / by Childs, Laura.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Browning, Theodosia (Fictitious character); Murder;
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Ancient Egyptian civilization / by Bell, Michael,1978-; Quie, Sarah.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46), Internet addresses (p. 45) and index.LSC
Subjects: Mythology, Egyptian;
© 2010., Rosen Pub.,
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While justice sleeps : a novel / by Abrams, Stacey,author.;
"An inside-Washington thriller about an ambitious law clerk thrown into a life-or-death treasure hunt with major national implications when the Supreme Court justice she works for slips into a sudden coma"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; United States. Supreme Court; Law clerks;
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Ocean drive : a novel / by Wiebe, Sam,author.;
In 'Ocean Drive', small town police chief Meghan Quick and paroled killer Cameron Shaw find themselves on a collision course when the murder-by-arson of a college student sparks off gang violence along the Washington/Canada border.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Gangs; Murder;
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