Showdown

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A classic NFL/civil rights story—the showdown between the Washington Redskins and the Kennedy White House In Showdown, sports historian Thomas G. Smith captures a striking moment, one that held sweeping implications not only for one team’s racist policy but also for a sharply segregated city and for the nation as a whole. Part sports history, part civil rights story, this compelling and untold narrative serves as a powerful lens onto racism in sport, illustrating how, in microcosm, the fight to desegregate the Redskins was part of a wider struggle against racial injustice in America.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Thomas Smith
Publisher : Beacon Press
Release : 2012-09-04
File : 289 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780807000823


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The inside story of the street war between Canada's most violent biker gangs-the Outlaws and the Hell's Angels Once bikers who road together, Mario Parente and Walter Stadnick, are now mortal enemies, chiefs, respectively, of the Outlaws and Hell's Angels, embroiled in a bloody turf war over control of the lucrative drug, prostitution, and vice markets in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe. Written with the cooperation of Mario Parente, Showdown describes the biker gang equivalent of the Godfather, the violent power shifts as Satan's Choice, a rival gang falls into disarray, and as Parente gears up to protect Southwest Ontario from Stadnick's vision of making the Hell's Angels the largest criminal biker gang in Canada. A gang's-eye look at the 2006 Shedden Massacre, where eight men were slaughtered An account that lets Mario Parente go on the record with his story of the biker wars With frightening and compelling detail, Showdown lets readers experience firsthand the personalities and day-to-day workings behind the brutal and deadly rivalries that mark one piece of Canada's criminal underworld.

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Genre : True Crime
Author : Jerry Langton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release : 2010-10-07
File : 289 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780470678787


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Thurgood Marshall brought down the separate-but-equal doctrine, integrated schools, and not only fought for human rights and human dignity but also made them impossible to deny in the courts and in the streets. In this stunning new biography, award-winning author Wil Haygood surpasses the emotional impact of his inspiring best seller The Butler to detail the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past one hundred years. Using the framework of the dramatic, contentious five-day Senate hearing to confirm Marshall as the first African-American Supreme Court justice, Haygood creates a provocative and moving look at Marshall’s life as well as the politicians, lawyers, activists, and others who shaped—or desperately tried to stop—the civil rights movement of the twentieth century: President Lyndon Johnson; Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose scandals almost cost Marshall the Supreme Court judgeship; Harry and Harriette Moore, the Florida NAACP workers killed by the KKK; Justice J. Waties Waring, a racist lawyer from South Carolina, who, after being appointed to the federal court, became such a champion of civil rights that he was forced to flee the South; John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy; Senator Strom Thurmond, the renowned racist from South Carolina, who had a secret black mistress and child; North Carolina senator Sam Ervin, who tried to use his Constitutional expertise to block Marshall’s appointment; Senator James Eastland of Mississippi, the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who stated that segregation was “the law of nature, the law of God”; Arkansas senator John McClellan, who, as a boy, after Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House, wrote a prize-winning school essay proclaiming that Roosevelt had destroyed the integrity of the presidency; and so many others. This galvanizing book makes clear that it is impossible to overestimate Thurgood Marshall’s lasting influence on the racial politics of our nation.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Wil Haygood
Publisher : Vintage
Release : 2015-09-15
File : 418 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780385353168


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USA vs. MILITIA THE NEW AMERICAN CIVIL WAR HAS BEGUN... It's brother against brother, citizen against citizen, soldier against soldier—in a war for the soul of America All across the nation, well-equipped militias are training for war. They know the hated Federals will be attacking, hell-bent on taking away their guns and their freedom. On the other side, the government knows the militias will be ready to fight to the death for their independence, their land and their family values. At the next Ruby Ridge, both sides are bringing an army. Leading the federal forces is General Douglas Freeman, the hard-nosed, flamboyant soldier who commanded American forces during WW III. When war breaks out, Freeman's B-52s bomb militia positions in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Militia and government forces square off in a massive tank battle in the Alvord Desert of southeastern Oregon. The oil fields of Bakersfield, key railroad links in Wyoming, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, are all targets of militia sabotage. Freeman launches the 82nd Airborne in a headlong attack on militia forces gathered near Mount St. Helens. At the mouth of the Columbia River on the Washington-Oregon border, the two armies fight a climactic battle for the four-mile-long Astoria bridge. SHOWDOWN is the heart-pounding scenario of a war that could be coming . . . a war in which both sides possess the most advanced and terrifying weapons in the history of combat. . . .

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Ian Slater
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
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File : 370 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781645402893


Showdown At Laramie Flatts

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Sheriff Luke Wallace wasn't looking for trouble...it came looking for him. With Colorado on the brink of statehood, a band of renegade Indians threatens his town. And there's more than meets the eye in the reason for them being there. Mix in a lovely lady, a silver strike and you've got a suspenseful western with plenty of action and grit.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Glen Marcus
Publisher : BookRix
Release : 2016-09-12
File : 105 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783864790287


Showdown At Widow Creek

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When the rodeo comes to Bayport, Joe and Frank catch the ranch hands trying to steal a prize horse. After the boys stop the theft, they're recruited to help drive the cattle back to the ranch. However, mysterious things continue to happen and the Hardy boys have to solve the mystery.

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Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Author : Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release : 2016-02-02
File : 128 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781481438773


The Diamond K Showdown

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Ewan McGill is warned off his spread, but is determined to sit it out. Then, three weeks later his house is burned down, his wife is kidnapped and his 10 year-old sun is murdered. Now he must take matters into his own hands, to find Verity and avenge his son's murder.

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Genre : Fiction
Author : Will Keen
Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
Release : 2017-04-01
File : 110 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780719822896


Super Villain Showdown

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Intergalactic peace keepers are chasing the evil TERRA-MAN through space! When this super-villain seeks refuge on Earth, SUPERMAN offers to join the bounty hunters' posse. Soon, the MAN OF STEEL locates the gun-slinging criminal in an Old West ghost town, and the two face off in an old-fashioned showdown.

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Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Author : Paul Kupperberg
Publisher : Capstone
Release : 2009-08-20
File : 57 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781434217363


The Traveler S Touch Showdown In The Land Of Zo

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Batman's nemesis is The Joker. Superman's main supervillain is Lex Luthor. The Avenger's arch enemies are, well, all the rest of the Bad Guys whose mission in life is to terrorize the you-know-what out of Humanity. But what about us Christians? Who are our "arch enemies"? Who are our "Bad Guys"? In Ephesians 6:12, the Bible says; "For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places." (NLT - New Living Translation) Thus, in this refreshingly hilarious yet surprisingly profound Inspirational Chapbook, YOU, dear Reader, are the main "hero" in this entertaining fictitious tale about the Believer's "conflicts" with satanic opposition which we sometimes find ourselves in a Showdown against, as we travel this marvelous maze of a Christian Journey. If you liked Part 1 - The Greatest Touch, and if you loved Part 2 - Another World, then, my fellow Traveler, prepare to be utterly wowed by an epic Fantasy/Adventure like you have NEVER read before! Introducing, The Traveler's Touch Saga Part 3 - Showdown in the Land of Zo. "I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life." - Oprah Winfrey

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Genre : Religion
Author : JARROD D. DIXON
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2017-03-24
File : 150 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781365846632


Showdown Players Around The World Guided Reading 6 Pack

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Release : 2019-11-01
File : 30 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780743958462