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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Tori Amos, Rosa Parks, Cher, Quentin Tarantino, Cameron Diaz, Alex Haley, Johnny Depp, Norma Mccorvey, Kevin Costner, Chuck Norris, Charisma Carpenter, Ben Harper, Tiffany, T-Bone Walker, James Garner, Hyapatia Lee, Mandy Moore, Joseph Utsler, Kristin Chenoweth, Burt Reynolds, Steven Tyler, James Earl Jones, Karen Mcdougal, Sam Bradford, Eartha Kitt, Oral Roberts, Robert Rauschenberg, Della Reese, Lou Diamond Phillips, Tommy Lee Jones, Bessie Coleman, Carmen Electra, Milo Ventimiglia, Keke Wyatt, John Phillips, Joe Nichols, James Vann, Mackenzie Phillips, Nikki Reed, Phylicia Rashād, Meagan Good, Christopher Judge, Crawford Goldsby, Pam Tillis, Amy Irving, Bob Johnson, Mitch Cullin, Rebecca Gayheart, Amil, David Birney, Chynna Phillips, Betty X, Scott Stapp, Perry Smith, Ernest E. Evans, Bijou Phillips, Christian Kane, Glenn Strange, Jock Mahoney, Keariene Muizz, Jeanne Cooper, Clint Walker, Mackenzie Rosman, Scrapper Blackwell, John Norton, John David Carson, Leon Hendrix, La'myia Good, Maya Bond, Jesse Chisholm, M. Miriam Herrera, Rae Dawn Chong, Diane Glancy, Herman Boone, Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, Robert Latham Owen, Suzanne de Passe, Priscilla Pointer, Don Shanks, Shae Marks, Sydney Penny, Willard Hughes Rollings, Mary L. Smith, Joseph Wicks, Malese Jow, Clem Mcspadden, Robert Wilkins, Robert J. Conley, Jackson Burns, Missy Stone, Joy Harjo, Chief Thundercloud, Tamara Feldman, Tom Starr, Michael Murphy, Mizuo Peck, Sacario, Brenda Schad, Heather Rae, Henriette Allais, Linda Moon, Terri Kimball, Jeff Thisted, Betty Louise Bell, Mardi Oakley Medawar, Marijo Moore, Gladys Cardiff, Brandon Brooks, Paul Gallo. Excerpt:Alex Haley Alex Haley (August 11, 1921 February 10, 1992) was an American writer . He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Andrew Jackson, Elvis Presley, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, Wilma Rudolph, Alex Haley, B. Carroll Reece, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Cash, Alvin C. York, Estes Kefauver, Shelby Foote, June Carter Cash, William Gannaway Brownlow, Brad Renfro, William Blount, Jimmy Quillen, Ray Blanton, Luke Lea, E. H. Crump, Albert Gore, Sr., Kenneth Mckellar, Barry Sadler, Gordon Browning, Frank G. Clement, Isham G. Harris, Robert Love Taylor, Champ Ferguson, Lawrence Tyson, Joe L. Evins, Elijah Embree Hoss, Alfred A. Taylor, Lambert Estes Gwinn, Return J. Meigs, Sr., Joshua Soule, Alexander O. Anderson, Thomas Dickens Arnold, Herbert S. Walters, David T. Patterson, William Henry Carroll, Louise Goff Reece, Robert Kennon Hargrove. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 343. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elvis Aaron (or Aron) Presley (January 8, 1935 August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954 when Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, eager to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience, saw in Presley the means to realize his ambition. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was one of the originators of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage the singer for over two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", released in January 1956, was a number one hit. He became the leading figure of the newly popular so...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9288 ... Read more

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Chapters: Alex Haley, Henry Louis Gates, Mila Rechcigl, Arthur Kurzweil, Archibald F. Bennett, Megan Smolenyak, Joseph Fielding Smith, Wyndham Robertson, Emily Wilder Leavitt, David H. Kelley, Kate Mason Rowland, John Farmer, James Hoge Tyler, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Marshall Kirk, Virginia Demarce, Franklin Pierce Rice, Barclay White, John Wingate Thornton, James Grant Wilson, Gary Boyd Roberts, Susa Young Gates, Theodore M. Burton, Gustav Anjou, Gary Mokotoff, Paul B. Freeland, Warren Blatt, Robert J. Behnen, Delmar R. Lowell, Harold Brooks-Baker, Fremont Rider, Ronald W. Collins, Cyril Toumanoff, Lothrop Withington, American Society of Genealogists, Sumner Ely Wetmore Kittelle, Robert C. Gunderson, Donald Lines Jacobus, George K. Schweitzer, Frederick Lewis Weis, Robert Charles Anderson, Harold Allen Tichenor, Lynn R. Carson, Thomas Milton Tinney, Sr., Henry Z. Jones, Jr.. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 183. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Henry Louis Skip Gates, Jr., B.A., Ph.D. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture. In 2002, Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities." The lecture resulted in his 2003 book, The Trials of Phillis Wheatley. As the host of the 2006 and 2008 PBS television miniseries African American Lives, Gates explored the genealogy of prominent African Americans. Gates sits on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research institutions. He serves as the Alpho...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=580827 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alex Haley's Queen is a miniseries adaptation of the 1993 Alex Haley/David Stevens novel Queen: The Story of an American Family, directed by John Erman and starring Halle Berry in the title role. The film tells the life story of a young slave girl named Queen, and illustrates the problems faced by bi-racial slaves in America. Throughout her life Queen struggles to fit into the two cultures of her heritage, and is at times shunned by both. The story is based on the life of Haley's paternal grandmother Queen. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 731 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Chapters: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alex Haley, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Octavia E. Butler, James Baldwin, Charles W. Chesnutt, Audre Lorde, James Weldon Johnson, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Ntozake Shange, Niobia Bryant, Percival Everett, Plum Bun, Ernest J. Gaines, E. Lynn Harris, Virginia Deberry, Donna Grant, Christopher Paul Curtis, Touré, Donald Goines, Leslie Esdaile Banks, Countee Cullen, Dr. Moe Anderson, Glenn Loury, Iceberg Slim, Jean Toomer, Walter Dean Myers, Eric Jerome Dickey, Theophilus Gould Steward, John Edgar Wideman, Kendra Norman-Bellamy, Omar Tyree, John Steptoe, Abiola Abrams, David Anthony Durham, Raymond Andrews, Bebe Moore Campbell, Virginia Hamilton, Claude Brown, Elsie B. Washington, Anthony Whyte, Colson Whitehead, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Terry Mcmillan, Tracy Price-Thompson, Mechelle Avey, Shelia Goss, Rasheed Clark, Clarence Cooper, Jr., Carlene Hatcher Polite, Zane, Jeff Rivera, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Jill Nelson, Reginald Mcknight, Shonia Brown, Melvin Dixon, Nathan Mccall, J. California Cooper, Fran Ross, Calvin Baker, D. T. Pollard, Mallori Mcneal, Meesha Mink. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 347. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best-known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the Harlem Renaissance saying that "Harlem was in vogue." Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, the second child of school teacher Carrie (Caroline) Mercer Langston and her husband James Nathaniel Hughes (18711934). Bo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21814770 ... Read more

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Title: Alex Haley: exhibit salutes Coast Guard's first chief journalist.(Out of the history looks)
Author: Jennifer Johnson
Publication: Coast Guard Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 2007Issue: 2Page: NA

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Describes the successful efforts of concerned citizens to stop construction of a jetport that would have destroyed the Florida Everglades. ... Read more

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River of grass
This 54-page 5-chapter book tells the story of Joe Browder's successful 1969 effort to defeat the planned construction of a major airport 50 miles from Miami in the Big Cypress Swamp. As head of the Miami chapter of the U.S. National Audubon Society, Browder felt that his only chance to stop the destructive development in the swamp would be to gain support from others. He convinced both old-time alligator hunter Gator Bill and Miccosukee chief Buffalo Tiger to join his fight.

Next Browder drafted Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Douglas had written her legendary book, River of Grass, in 1947. He drove her to the site of the jetport, where some trees had already been cut and the swamp drained. She decided then and there to help. The people of Florida could have a jetport or the Everglades, but they couldn't have both. The former, if constructed, would destroy the latter.

Douglas formed the Friends of the Everglades and took the fight to Washington D.C. and then Interior Secretary Walter Hickel and Secretary of Transportation John Volpe. They ordered an environmental study, which found that the jetport would so pollute the Glades' water, its lifeblood, that all wildlife there would be threatened.

At last, Joe Browder too made it to Washington, where he met with President Richard Nixon. Transportation Secretary Volpe supported the jetport, while Interior Secretary Hickel opposed it. Nixon sent his daughter Julie to Florida to see the Everglades. When she returned to Washington, she told her the President that the Everglades were a national treasure. Nixon called a press conference and opposed the jetport.

This is a great book for children, which shows what can one person can accomplish if only he tries. And of course, it extols the virtues of one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Alyssa A. Lappen

True story of people working together to save the Everglades
While written as a social studies textbook for young children, Save the Everglades is the most accurate account ever published about the time somany years ago when environmentalists, Native Americans and the people wholived and hunted in the Everglades joined together to protect America'smost endangered National Park.

Save the Everglades is part of a series of28 books edited by the late historian Alex Haley (of Roots fame), writtento help children understand how change in America is made by real people.Haley placed this book about a conflict between protecting nature andbuilding an aiport in the same category with the series' book about theMontgomery, Alabama bus boycott -- books about people working together,making choices about what kind of communities they want to have.

Save theEverglades tells how very different people who all shared a love of naturefought to stop political leaders and real estate developers in Miami,Florida from building what would have been the world's largest airport,just a few miles from Everglades National Park and within the Big CypressSwamp, the wildest and richest part of the Everglades.Hunters, alligatorpoachers, Miccosukee Indians, school children and environmental leadersstarted a national campaign that convinced the President of the UnitedStates to withdraw federal money and permits for the airport project, andthen to buy the Big Cypress and make it part of the Everglades protected bythe National Parks System.

This book is about one of the campaigns thathelped bring together the national environmental movement of the 1960s, butthe book is also important for people who care about today's environmentalissues, because Everglades National Park is, in the year 2000, once morethreatened by another airport project sponsored by Miami political leadersand real estate developers. So people in Florida and across America areonce more appealing to the President of the United States to Save theEverglades.

To make the publisher's first draft more suitable forchildren, the author added some false drama (fear of flying) and eliminatedsome true drama (death plots by real estate promoters, oddly enoughreferenced inaccurately in a more recent book about Florida, Susan Orlean'sThe Orchid Thief).The writer of this review is also the principal subjectof Save the Everglades, and so can personally confirm that with thoseexceptions, the story is accurate. ... Read more