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sophia-sol · 3 years

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Books read in 2021

It's time for my yearly roundup of books I read over the last year! This time with links to my tumblr posts with my reviews for each book, aww yeah!

Under a cut for length, because a) I read a lot of books and then b) I talk about them a bunch.

January **** Boyfriend Material, by Alexis Hall **** Mirage, by Somaiya Daud **** Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang **** Strong Poison, by Dorothy L Sayers February ***** Winter's Orbit, by Everina Maxwell ***** I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder, by Sarah Kurchak - nf *** Court of Lions, by Somaiya Daud *** Rent a Boyfriend, by Gloria Chao ***** Elatsoe, by Darcie Little Badger March *** That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story, by Huda Fahmy - nf **** Paladin's Strength, by T Kingfisher ***** An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics, Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by James Bailey and Tatyana Ivanova - nf **** Measuring Up, by Lily LaMotte, illustrated by Ann Xu ** The Forgotten Sisters, by Shannon Hale **** Moon of the Crusted Snow, by Waubgeshig Rice **** Two Roads, by Joseph Bruchac April **** The Devil Comes Courting, by Courtney Milan *** Ring Shout, by P. Djèlí Clark *** Exhalation, by Ted Chiang May *** Act Your Age, Eve Brown, by Talia Hibbert *** The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu *** Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas *** First Comes Like, by Alisha Rai **** Warrior Scarlet, by Rosemary Sutcliff **** Drowned Country, by Emily Tesh June **** Jackalope Wives and Other Stories, by T. Kingfisher *** Falling in Love with Hominids, by Nalo Hopkinson *** Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan *** Skylark, by Patricia MacLachlan **** The Two Princesses of Bamarre, by Gail Carson Levine ***** Catherine's War, by Julia Billet **** Black Sun, by Rebecca Roanhorse *** Raybearer, by Jordan Ifueko *** Legendborn, by Tracy Deonn **** The Empress of Salt and Fortune, by Nghi Vo ***** When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, by Nghi Vo ** Come Tumbling Down, by Seanan McGuire **** Finna, by Nino Cipri ** Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey *** A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler, by Lynell George - nf **** The Barren Grounds, by David A Robertson **** Fugitive Telemetry, by Martha Wells ***** Beowulf: A New Translation, by Maria Dahvana Headley July **** Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail, by Dave Arnold - nf **** The Vanished Birds, by Simon Jimenez ***** Black Water Sister, by Zen Cho **** The Space Between Worlds, by Micaiah Johnson *** Accidentally Engaged, by Farah Heron **** The Bombay Prince, by Sujata Massey **** The Witness for the Dead, by Katherine Addison *** The Relentless Moon, by Mary Robinette Kowal August *** Silk and Steel: A Queer Speculative Adventure Anthology, edited by Janine A. Southard *** Islamicates Volume I, edited by Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad ** A Mosque Among the Stars, edited by Ahmed A. Khan and Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad *** A Treasure of One's Own, by Lydia San Andres *** A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik ***** Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik *** The Girl from the Sea, by Molly Knox Ostertag September *** The Chosen and the Beautiful, by Nghi Vo *** The Goblin Emperor, by Katherine Addison ***** The Raven Tower, by Ann Leckie **** My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir, by Katherine Johnson - nf **** Fence, vol. 1-4, by C.S. Pacat, art by Johanna the Mad **** While We Were Dating, by Jasmine Guillory October ***** She Who Became the Sun, by Shelley Parker-Chan *** A Master of Djinn, by P Djeli Clark *** The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, by Becky Chambers *** Working on a Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown, by Anaïs Mitchell - nf *** Paladin's Hope, by T. Kingfisher ***** Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer - nf *** Care Of, by Ivan Coyote - nf **** Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier **** An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, by Chris Hadfield - nf ***** My Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier November *** Redemptor, by Jordan Ifueko *** Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes *** Superior: The Return of Race Science, by Angela Saini - nf **** Witches of Brooklyn, by Sophie Escabasse **** How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, by Clint Smith - nf *** The Last Graduate, by Naomi Novik **** Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad, by MT Anderson - nf *** Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu *** The Fire Never Goes Out, by Noelle Stevenson - nf **** Be Prepared, by Vera Brosgol ***** They Called Us Enemy, by George Takei - nf ***** Snapdragon, by Kat Leyh *** Heartstopper volume 1, by Alice Oseman *** Witches of Brooklyn: What the Hex?!, by Sophie Escabasse ***** The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Nguyen *** Operatic, by Kyo Maclear *** How Mirka Got Her Sword, by Barry Deutsch ** Jane, the Fox and Me, by Fanny Britt & Isabelle Arsenault December *** The Kingdom of Gods, by NK Jemisin **** The Awakened Kingdom, by NK Jemisin *** The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste ** The Dating Playbook, by Farrah Rochon **** Light from Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki **** Heartstopper volume 2, by Alice Oseman *** The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang This year I read 102 books! (As a result I'm not going to bother including percentages for any of these stats, as the straight numbers will be pretty close to the percentage of total.) Of the books I read, only 7 were rereads, which is super low when compared to past years; not sure what all factors played into that. Fantasy: 51 Graphic novels: 21 Kidlit: 20 Historical fiction: 14 Nonfiction: 13 Romance: 13 YA: 13 Science Fiction: 11 Old books: 4 Short Stories: 7 Memoir: 5 Famous/Classic: 4 Translated: 3 Mystery: 3 Literary Fiction: 2 Gothic: 2 Folk/fairy tale collection: 1 Poetry: 1 Books with male authors: 20 Books with female authors: 73 Books with nonbinary authors: 12 Books with authors of colour: 52 5-star books: 16 4-star books: 38 3-star books: 42 2-star books: 6 1-star books: 0 Books continue to be an important source of good in my life. I love reading books, I love figuring out what I think about a book and how to express it clearly in my reviews, and I love talking about the books I read with other people who have opinions on them - whether in the comments of one of my book posts, in the comments of their book posts, in person, in twitter DMs, in chat....it's great. I've also been working on feeling like it's okay for me to not write/post a review of a book when I don't actually want to though, for whatever reason, and I feel like this year I was successful at not pressuring myself to! (however: if you want to talk with me about any of the books I listed without a review linked, please feel free to, talking to people is different :)) The kinds of books I read in any given year are highly influenced by what sorts of kicks I end up on. Last year I read a whole bunch of poetry, for example, because I started reading Robert Service and couldn't stop. This year my graphic novel count is the highest it's ever been because I went through the the list of all graphic novel ebooks my library had to offer. Both last year and this year I've done my best to read my way through all the Hugo nominees in all the categories I can, which introduces books into my life that I might not otherwise have thought to give a try to, and which sometimes result in exciting finds and sometimes result in me going "ugh WHY THIS." I've been making good use of my library's curbside pickup this year instead of just relying on their ebooks like I did last year, which opened up more books to my availability even in a time when covid means wandering through the library on a regular basis isn't as safe as it used to be. I started tagging all my book thoughts posts this year with my star rating of them (...at least on dreamwidth, where tags work differently), which I think is a net benefit to my overall tagging/info-conveyance system. It makes it really easy to discover, for example, how MANY of the books I read are ones that I really do like. A good sign that I'm curating my own reading well. And I read so many good books this year! I say this every year but it's really true! There are so many amazing books in the world and I put LOTS of them in front of my face. What's my favourite of them??? How to even narrow it down! She Who Became the Sun absolutely blew me away, When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain felt like it was written just for meeeeee, Elatsoe was a delight, An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics was fascinating, Beowulf: A New Translation was endless fun, Spinning Silver continues to be brilliant, The Magic Fish did a perfect job of marrying form and theme to enhance an already amazing story, My Cousin Rachel sent me basically feral for a week straight.....BOOKS!!! I successfully managed to not read any one-star books this year, go me. I think my least favourite would be either Upright Women Wanted or Come Tumbling Down, though it's possible that feeling like the Hugos made me read those ones made my feelings of dislike for them more intense than for the books I personally inflicted upon me. At any rate although both books emphatically did not work for me, they clearly have elements that speak to other readers, and honestly it's nice when my least favourite books of a given year aren't just irredeemable dreck.

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misha-moose-dean-burger-lover · 4 years

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POSITIVE 20 QUESTIONS TAG GAME

I was tagged by @peanutbutterandgrapejelly. Thank you for the tag, Peanut, this seems pretty loaded, but in a good way, so here goes!!

1. Name 4 fictional characters who showcase your personality the best, with explanations if you want.

Sue Heck! I don't think I let all of it out, but on the inside, I constantly feel like I'm extremely Sue Heck-y, :')

Amy Santiago, in a lot of regards, I'll say. Uh, cares a lot about her friends, ambitious, and would basically die/murder for organization, but also socially awkward and, uh, mostly percepted as a goody-two-shoes. Also, true nerd™.

Mindy Lahiri! (I mean, again, this seems more of a who I feel like I am, and not who I come across as, cause those two things tend to differ on a variety of levels?)

Sam Winchester (you know I had to) Basically, we're both INFJs. I'm not even close to his level, but my brain officially ran out of characters so uh, empathetic, constantly interpreted as "boring" and the "brains", patient, *yearns to settle down with someone they love*, believes in second chances. The whole nine, but toned down XD

2. Aesthetic:

I'd usually have a hard time with this one, but I recently did a long thing about my aesthetic, so! I'm going to say, soft pastel, beige, and shades of white!! A tinge of light academia, but mostly unassumingly modern, and faded rainbows as watermarks.

3. Favorite musical/play? If you've never seen a musical or play, one you'd be interested in seeing?

You got me ~ never seen any. (I mean, school plays don't count, right?) I honestly have a bunch of musicals I want to see, recommendations from friends online, but somehow it always slips my mind. But, off the top of my head, @spot-the-brooklyn-pirate wanted me to check this one out, and I am looking forward to actually doing it sometime: Book of Mormon.

4. What's the best compliment you've ever received?

Mostly, anyone who says I, in any way, made them happy, literally gives me the best compliment ever. And uh, my sister called me inspiring once, and it stuck. When I nagged her into elaborating, she said she thought I was functional in spite of all my flailings, and self-analytic, and it didn't make sense to me, but I still think about that.

And a few people, over the course of time, have named some of my fics as their favorites, and those stay with me for a very long time.

5. How many times have you been in love?

Hardly once. She's still one of the most important people in the world to me, but as somebody great once said, if you don't fight for it, it doesn't count. And we didn't.

6. Embarrassing story or fact about yourself which now makes you laugh?

By far the most embarrassing thing I've ever done, is written a fic on wattpad which revolved around my own life, except for the fact that it really, really didn't. Long story shortened, I was in sixth grade, and had a surface-level-y crush on this guy, and it seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. In the story, we're all in senior year, though the authoress forgot pretty much all the real things about school XD it's not just cringy, but also extremely sixth-grade-y written, and it astounds me to this day that it went on to have like 18,000 views? (I managed to block the entire shtick out, until a few months back, when I randomly remembered and rushed to unpublish the work. *facepalm* it even had all our real names)

7. Favorite Disney/Pixar movie?

This one's so hard. Uh. Ratatouille, maybe?

8. Favorite flower/plant?

I regret having to confess that I probably don't have one :( but hey, my go-to answer for these ones is daisies, because they remind me of the lovely @daisy-jeon <3

9. What's your favorite holiday?

Holi :')

(I miss it being like the older times, though? Somehow it always clashes with my final exams these last few years, and Shelley is often not home, but it still really makes me happy, so just imagine how perfect it used to be, when I was a kid!!)

10. Name three things that made you smile/laugh this past week.

Rewatching The French Mistake!! A really great decision, haha!

The lovely comments an older fic of mine received, (about old Destiel, uwu) since a couple of big blogs happened to reblog it 🙈🙈🙈 and my activity started blowing up!!

A full-blown coffee high, which resulted in me being hilarious through a 98-message monologue to dish, eeeeee!!

11. What song would you play to introduce yourself to someone?

I'd been dreading this question the most, because I'm horrible at remembering good songs when I - need to be. Oofsies.

But I guess I could wing it with 'What About Us' by P!nk.

12. Name something that truly makes you peaceful even at your most stressful moments.

Writing about Character A of a ship going through said stressful moment, and Character B being the best possible responder to all of it. Projection's the key to functionality, kids.

13. What do you, did you, or would you study at college?

Would you, and will you, sound unfortunately like different questions to me, so I'm going to answer the one which is asked. I'd like to major in History, with a minor in English. (And to be crude for a bit, as my sister calls it, thus successfully be left solely employable as a teacher.)

14. This is kind of a weird one, but which outfit of yours makes you feel most like yourself?

My black Avenger's logo t-shirt, with this pink hooded, kinda-down-past-my-hips, not-warm-at-all jacket and any one of my numerous, mwuahaha, grey shorts.

I never said I'd go out of the house in that outfit, did I?

15. What is a quote you live by?

I don't think there aren't any. I'm just here, faking it till I make it. Still, if I had to choose? Misha's "Be Kind to Yourself so You can be Happy enough to Be Kind to Others" is something I aspire to live by.

16. Name the funniest playlist name you have.

I'm sad that I don't have any funnily named ones now. Sorry to disappoint, but I'm hoping that it counts a teensy bit that I have like seven playlists just for background shtuff when I'm working, and they're all named *extremely* similarly, with variations of the word "study" basically, but all have exceptionally different vibes.

But I really am sorry, and I'm going to try and up my playlist-humor-game.

17. Make a reference to an inside joke you have with someone you love with zero context.

'Time for tapwater'.

18. What is a message you'd give your younger self if given a chance?

Don't build your sense of self-worth over the people whose opinions you think matter. You don't have to get everybody to like you. (Oh, and probably don't switch between multiple first-person-pov's, even though you're just writing the most unrealistic self-indulgent fiction EVER.)

19. Who is your favorite family member? (If you have no good blood family members, feel free to mention someone in your found family)

Hands down, my sister. Shelley, didi, @iamcharliebradburylevelperfect, you're like the best part of my life, and you're probably going to be the longest part of it, too. Cause we might not have the best record for funny titles to call each other by, but we still nail the cheesy till the end of the line moments, ;)

20. What's a secret dream of yours?

I, uh. Want to run a completely-revolutionalizing-the-concept-of-education-style school ~ a boarding school actually, with my best friend dish. And as a means to acquire funds for it? We're going to do a whole lotta stand-up. :D

(Oh, and since i've already rambled for at least a thousand words, so what's the harm in a few more? At some point, probably on my birthday, I want to do a YouTube livestream, a pre-planned one of course, and everybody I've ever been frens with, on this dumb, wholesome hellsite???? They're all sent an invitation to join!! And there's nothing to do, really, we just talk and everyone's enjoying themselves, and I dunno, I had a dream about this once, and I've been so ridiculously smitten with the idea since!

Huh, maybe I could rally forces starting now, to make this possible by my eighteenth!!)

If anyone would like to play, these are really awesome questions! @3dg310rdsupreme @mystybloo @thotfordean @bcozwhythefuknot @theninthdutchessofhell @awkward-penguin-in-a-trenchcoat @quicksilver-ships @all-or-nothing-baby @screamatthescreen @telefunkies @elvenlicht @facepalmmylifeu @specialagentrin @noemithenephilim @but-for-the-gods-three-days

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blackkudos · 4 years

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Oscar Stanton De Priest

Oscar Stanton De Priest (March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951) was an American politician and civil rights advocate from Chicago. A member of the Illinois Republican Party he was the first African American to be elected to Congress in the 20th century. During his three terms, he was the only African American serving in Congress. He served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois' 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1935. De Priest was also the first African-American U.S. Representative from outside the southern states and the first since the exit of North Carolina representative George Henry White from Congress in 1901.

Born in Alabama to freedmen parents, De Priest was raised in Dayton, Ohio. He studied business and made a fortune in Chicago as a contractor, and in real estate and the stock market before the Crash. A successful local politician, he was elected to the Chicago City Council in 1914, the first African American to hold that office.

In Congress in the early 1930s, he spoke out against racial discrimination, including at speaking events in the South; tried to integrate the House public restaurant; gained passage of an amendment to desegregate the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the work programs under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal; and introduced anti-lynching legislation to the House (it was not passed because of the Solid South Democratic opposition). In 1934, De Priest was defeated by Arthur W. Mitchell, the first African American to be elected as a Democrat to Congress. De Priest returned to Chicago and his successful business ventures, eventually returning to politics, when he was again elected Chicago alderman in the 1940s.

Early life

De Priest was born in 1871 in Florence, Alabama, to freedmen, former slaves of mixed race. He had a brother named Robert. His mother, Martha Karsner, worked part-time as a laundress, and his father Neander was a teamster, associated with the "Exodus" movement. After the Civil War, thousands of blacks left continued oppression by whites in the South by moving to other states that offered promises of freedom and greater economic opportunities, such as Kansas. Others moved later in the century.

In 1878, the year after Reconstruction had ended and federal troops been withdrawn from the region, the De Priests left Alabama for Dayton, Ohio. Violence had increased in Alabama as whites had tried to restore white supremacy: the elder De Priest had to save his friend, former U.S. Representative James T. Rapier, from a lynch mob, and a black man was killed on their doorstep. The boy Oscar attended local schools in Dayton.

Career

Business

De Priest went to Salina, Kansas, to study bookkeeping at the Salina Normal School, established also for the training of teachers. In 1889 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, which had been booming as an industrial city. He worked first as an apprentice plasterer, house painter, and decorator. He became a successful contractor and real estate broker. He built a fortune in the stock market and in real estate by helping black families move into formerly all-white neighborhoods, often ones formerly occupied by ethnic white immigrants and their descendants. There was population succession in many neighborhoods under the pressure of new migrants.

Politics

From 1904 to 1908, De Priest was a member of the board of commissioners of Cook County, Illinois.

De Priest was elected in 1914 to the Chicago City Council, serving from 1915 to 1917 as alderman from the 2nd Ward, on the South Side. He was Chicago's first black alderman. In 1917 De Priest was indicted for alleged graft and resigned from the City Council. He hired nationally known Clarence Darrow as his defense attorney and was acquitted. He was succeeded in office by Louis B. Anderson.

In 1919, De Priest ran unsuccessfully for alderman as a member of the People's Movement Club, a political organization he founded. In a few years, De Priest's black political organization became the most powerful of many in Chicago, and he became the top black politician under Chicago Republican mayor William Hale Thompson.

In 1928, when Republican congressman Martin B. Madden died, Mayor Thompson selected De Priest to replace him on the ballot. He was the first African American elected to Congress outside the South and the first to be elected in the 20th century. He represented the 1st Congressional District of Illinois (which included The Loop and part of the South Side of Chicago) as a Republican. During the 1930 election, De Priest was challenged in the primary by noted African-American spokesperson, orator, and Republican Roscoe Conkling Simmons. De Priest defeated Simmon's primary challenge and won the general election afterward. During De Priest's three consecutive terms (1929–1935), he was the only black representative in Congress. He introduced several anti-discrimination bills during these years of the Great Depression.

DePriest's 1933 amendment barring discrimination in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a program of the New Deal to employ people across the country in building infrastructure, was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His anti-lynching bill failed due to opposition by the white conservative Democrats of the Solid South, although it would not have made lynching a federal crime. (Previous anti-lynching bills had also failed to pass the Senate, which was dominated by the South since its disenfranchisement of blacks at the turn of the century.) A third proposal, a bill to permit a transfer of jurisdiction if a defendant believed he or she could not get a fair trial because of race or religion, was passed by a later Congress.

Civil rights activists criticized De Priest for opposing federal aid to the poor. Nevertheless, they applauded him for making public speeches in the South despite death threats. They also praised De Priest for telling an Alabama senator he was not big enough to prevent him from dining in the private Senate restaurant. (Some Congressmen ate in the Senate restaurant to avoid De Priest, who usually ate in the Members Dining Room designated for Congressmen.) The public areas of the House and Senate restaurants were segregated. The House accepted that De Priest sometimes brought black staff or visitors to the Members Dining Room, but objected when he entertained mixed groups there.

De Priest defended the right of students of Howard University, a historically black college in Washington, D.C., to eat in the public section of the House restaurant and not be restricted to a section in the basement near the kitchen, used mostly by black employees and visitors. He took this issue of discrimination against the students (and other black visitors) to a special bipartisan House committee. In a three-month-long heated debate, the Republican political minority argued that the restaurant's discriminatory practice violated 14th Amendment rights to equal access. The Democratic majority skirted the issue by claiming that the restaurant was a private facility and not open to the public. The House restaurant remained segregated through much of the 1940s and maybe as late as 1952.

In 1929, De Priest made national news when First Lady Lou Hoover invited his wife, Jessie De Priest, to a traditional tea for congressional wives at the White House.

De Priest appointed Benjamin O. Davis Jr. to the United States Military Academy at a time when the only African-American line officer in the Army was Davis's father.

By the early 1930s, De Priest's popularity waned because he continued to oppose higher taxes on the rich and fought Depression-era federal relief programs under President Roosevelt. De Priest was defeated in 1934 by Democrat Arthur W. Mitchell, who was also African American. After returning to his businesses and political life in Chicago, De Priest was elected again to the Chicago City Council in 1943 as alderman of the 3rd Ward, serving until 1947. He died in Chicago at 80 and is buried in Graceland Cemetery.

Personal life

Oscar married the former Jessie L. Williams (c. 1873 – March 31, 1961). They had two sons together: Laurence W. (c. 1900 – July 28, 1916), who died at the age of 16 and Oscar Stanton De Priest, Jr. (May 24, 1906 – November 8, 1983) A great-grandson of Oscar De Priest, Jr., Philip R. DePriest, became the administrator of his estate after his grandmother's death in 1992. This included his great-grandfather's Oscar Stanton De Priest House, now a National Historic Landmark, which still held his locked political office. This had not been touched since about 1951. This great-grandson has been working to restore the office and house, and assessing the political archives—"a veritable treasure trove."

Legacy and honors

The Oscar Stanton De Priest House in Chicago, at 45th and King Drive, has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and city landmark.

See also

List of African American firsts

List of African-American United States Representatives

Oscar Stanton De Priest House

Jessie De Priest

References

Bibliography

Day, S. Davis. "Herbert Hoover and Racial Politics: The De Priest Incident". Journal of Negro History 65 (Winter 1980): 6-17

Nordhaus-Bike, Anne. "Oscar DePriest lived Pisces's call to service, unity." Gazette, March 7, 2008.

Olasky, Martin. "History turned right side up". WORLD magazine. 13 February 2010. p. 22.

Rudwick, Elliott M. "Oscar De Priest and the Jim Crow Restaurant in the U.S. House of Representatives". Journal of Negro Education 35 (Winter 1966): 77–82.

External links

United States Congress. "Oscar Stanton De Priest (id: D000263)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

Search for National Historic Landmark: Oscar De Priest House, National Park Service

“DE PRIEST, Oscar Stanton”, History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives

Shelley Stokes-Hammond, Biographical sketch: "Pathbreakers: Oscar Stanton DePriest and Jessie L. Williams DePriest", The White House Historical Association

"The DePriest Family Legacy", Video Interview/YouTube, White House Historical Association

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lboogie1906 · 5 years

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Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. Prior to his judicial service, he successfully argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Brown v. Board of Education. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Marshall graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1933. He established a private legal practice in Baltimore before founding the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he served as executive director. In that position, he argued several cases before the Supreme Court, including Smith v. Allwright, Shelley v. Kraemer, and Brown v. Board of Education, which held that racial segregation in public education is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Four years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Marshall as the United States Solicitor General. In 1967, Johnson successfully nominated Marshall to succeed retiring Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. Marshall retired during the administration of President George H. W. Bush, and was succeeded by Clarence Thomas. On June 13, 1967, President Johnson nominated Marshall to the Supreme Court following the retirement of Justice Tom C. Clark, saying that this was "the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place." Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69–11 on August 30, 1967. He was the 96th person to hold the position, and the first African American. #365black #blackexcellence #alphaphialpha (at Blocker Norfolk Family YMCA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Byq2KfMn24nqDpZLyIkfZxctCRgwcU-VJ5ZjiE0/?igshid=1xvs3h8tcq1rp

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16 yr old Me and #OmarCruz were the only juniors on the team loaded with pro talent like #rubenredondo #melstocker #anthonyfaras #chriswadley #eliasmartinez #jasonbingham #johndenny #nick etc..we had a great coach #joselopez “joss”.. He got us prepared mentally to beat anyone and win state finally at Cholla.. We had a great first half.. But coach made the mistake to print out STATS and all players were anxious looking over them as competing against each other.. that’s when the TEAM fell apart.. we lost to the schools we hated with a passion like @cdohighschool and their well off players training facilities etc.. Shelley Duncan was a cocky ass. @iankinsler from @tigers was cool. Shelley brother Chris played with the @yankees @cardinals respectively. we almost got in a fight with them b/c they thought they could come to our home field @chollahigh and disrespect us.. Spoiled ass Shelley Duncan threw a bat from the dugout to the field.. what a cry baby.. he was tall like 6’3” But we were from the hood.. they were not raised with gangs.. Bloods vs Crips vs “the waleeks” Mexicans.. every lunch it was awesome b/c every group respected each other and had its areas.. But some times they would clash.. and there were fights, stabbings(rarely) we valued life, and even riots at the auditoriums. Other gang members from @Tucsonhigh would come and jump(beat the shit out of one) But we strongly believed that guns were for sissies.. so it was always all out @mma but without rules.. you couldn’t #tap out like today’s #millenials We would take nothing from no body.. we played with passion.. the streets, being poor, working our butt off.. there was no mental health education.. we would gets rid of our anxiety by kicking ass in sports or getting in fights.. and the Next day we would squash it.. that how I was on #southsidetucson #barrioanita #tucsonhigh #pueblohighschool #sunnysidehighscholl #catalinahighschool #4asonoran Oh man only 21 yrs ago and I feel like it was yesterday I wish I could back to those days... We had each other’s backs no matter what #allminorities against racist whites & cops.we lived and respected women to the fullest ⚾️🏈🏀⚽️🥎🥊GreedRacismRuinedAmerica 🇲🇽✌🤓 (at Cholla High Magnet School) https://www.instagram.com/p/By8MxCYBl65pj5ciMqBw67mB__YWQlcFViU9h80/?igshid=1g0oq5on41cua

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illuminatcd-arch · 3 years

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* 𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧 / 𝑶𝑽𝑬𝑹𝑽𝑰𝑬𝑾

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B A S I C

NAME: alyssa francis nelson. NICKNAMES: aly, don’t call her alyssa. FACE CLAIM: shelley hennig. AGE RANGE: twenty four (24) to thirty one (31). BIRTHDAY: 18 september. SPECIES: human. GENDER: cis woman. PRONOUNS: she/her. HOME FANDOM: unaffiliated oc. AVAILABILITY: open for plotting. more below, subject to change depending on verse.

F A M I L Y

MOTHER: iris georgia nelson (nee martin). FATHER: franklin joseph nelson. FAMILY: it only takes one missing piece to fall apart. SIBLINGS: sydney florence nelson (deceased).

P H Y S I C A L A T T R I B U T E S

RACE/ETHNICITY: german, swiss-german, scottish, english, italian. NATIONALITY: american. HEIGHT: 5 feet and eight inches (5′8) WEIGHT: irrelevant. BUILD: athletic. HAIR: falling just past her shoulders. HAIR COLOR: dark brown with honey highlights. EYE COLOR: hazel. DOMINANT HAND: right, though she uses her cutlery as if she is left handed.. ANOMALIES: none. SCENT: daisy, by marc jacobs. ACCENT: american. PHYSICAL DISABILITIES: none. LEARNING DISABILITIES: none. ALLERGIES: shellfish. DISORDERS: insomniac, comes and goes with stress. aly has medication for when it gets very bad. FASHION: fairly on trend but doesn’t think too much about it. NERVOUS TICS: nail biter.

L I F E S T Y L E

HOME ADDRESS: varies, verse dependent. RESIDES: varies, verse dependent. BORN: lincoln, nebraska. RAISED: lincoln, nebraska. VEHICLE: 2016 kia sportage. PHONE: iphone 12; she gets the new iphone within weeks of release. LAPTOP/COMPUTER: 2018 macbook air. PETS: none.

HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION: graduated. COLLEGE EDUCATION: attended tulane, louisiana. CAREER: bartender and freelance writer. EMPLOYER: varies, verse dependent.

POLITICAL AFFILIATION: democrat. RELIGION: agnostic. BELIEFS: none. MISDEMEANORS: she’s been a little reckless in the past, let’s leave it at that. FELONIES: none. TICKETS AND/OR VIOLATIONS: none. DRUGS: recreationally. SMOKES: when drunk. ALCOHOL: yes. DIET: she's either not eating, or always eating; there is no balance.

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: panromantic. SEXUAL ORIENTATION: pansexual. MARTIAL STATUS: single. CHILDREN: none. AVAILABILITY: very. LOOKING FOR: someone to make her forget the sad in her mind.

LANGUAGES: english, french.

PHOBIAS: car wrecks. HOBBIES: would consider drinking a hobby. TRAITS: considerate, hopeful, fun-loving, hesitant, tense, guarded. SOCIAL MEDIA: instagram, twitter.

F A V O U R I T E

LOCATION: cayuga lake, at sunrise. SPORTS TEAM: nebraska cornhuskers. GAME: boggle. MUSIC: as long as it’s loud. SHOWS: anything that doesn't require a lot of attention; schitt's creek, brooklyn 99, friends. MOVIES: a simple favor, shutter island, anything with a surprise twist. FOOD: mexican; burritos, fajitas, nachos. BEVERAGE: caramel frappucino, diet coke, gin & tonic. COLOR: purple.

C H A R A C T E R

MORAL ALIGNMENT: chaotic neutral. MBTI: entp. ENNEAGRAM: type 8 - the challenger. TEMPERAMENT: sanguine. WESTERN ZODIAC: virgo. SONG: suddenly i see - kt tunstall.

IDEOLOGIES: anybody that doesn't eat nachos shouldn't be trusted.

#&&. alyssa nelson.#&&. alyssa nelson & threads.#&&. alyssa nelson & visage.#&&. alyssa nelson & musings.

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dragonfruit-daydreams · 4 years

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Happy Women's Equality Day! I know that many people are never taught about so many of the amazing women in history, so I've provided some links to biographies about notable women in history! This includes: activists, politicians, writers, scientists, artists, and more! Feel free to check it out!:

Sally Ride (Astronaut): https://www.biography.com/astronaut/sally-ride

Ida B. Wells (Activist): https://www.biography.com/activist/ida-b-wells

Marsha P. Johnson (Activist): https://www.biography.com/activist/marsha-p-johnson

bell hooks (Writer): https://www.britannica.com/biography/bell-hooks

Frida Kahlo (Artist): https://www.biography.com/artist/frida-kahlo

Ellen Richards (Chemist, Founder of Home Economics): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ellen-Swallow-Richards

Caster Semenya (Athlete): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48097440

Del Martin (Activist): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Del-Martin

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Politician): https://www.biography.com/political-figure/alexandria-ocasio-cortez

Rosa Billinghurst (Activist): https://votingcounts.org.uk/rosa-may-billinghurst

Laverne Cox (Actor): https://www.biography.com/actor/laverne-cox

Sojourner Truth (Activist): https://www.biography.com/activist/sojourner-truth

Judy Heumann (Activist): https://www.adalive.org/heumann_j

Shirley Chisholm (Politician): https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/shirley-chisholm

Hattie McDaniel (Actor): https://www.biography.com/actor/hattie-mcdaniel

Harriet Martineau (Writer, Co-Founder of Sociology): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harriet-Martineau

Dorothea Lange (Photographer): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothea-Lange

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (Activist): https://www.queerportraits.com/bio/griffin-gracy

Lilly and Lana Wachowski (Filmmakers): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachowskis

Mary Shelley (Writer): https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley

Malala Yousafzai (Activist): https://www.biography.com/activist/malala-yousafzai

Sarah Bernhardt (Actor): https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sarah-Bernhardt

Dr. Ruth Westheimer (Sex Therapist): https://www.biography.com/personality/dr-ruth-westheimer

Joy Harjo (Poet): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joy-harjo

Kimberle Crenshaw (Writer): https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/crenshaw-kimberle-williams-1959/

Harriet Tubman (Activist):

https://www.biography.com/activist/harriet-tubman

Laura Jane Grace (Musician): https://www.allmusic.com/artist/laura-jane-grace-mn0002469214/biography

Sylvia Rivera (Activist): https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/forgotten-latina-trailblazer-lgbt-activist-sylvia-rivera-n438586

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Musician): https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sister-rosetta-tharpe-mn0000013511/biography

Helen Keller (Activist): https://www.biography.com/activist/helen-keller

#women #history #women's history

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sacred-hearts-academy · 4 years

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From the founding of @SacredHeartsAcademy in 1909, the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts have been committed to providing a high quality, affordable education for girls and young women. There is no more important time than the present to reaffirm this commitment. Please read an important message regarding our commitment to our #SacredHeartsAcademy families from the Academy's Head of School, Dr. Scott Schroeder, and Board of Directord Chair, Shelley Cramer. #GoLancers (at Sacred Hearts Academy) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-_Rzoqjmmy/?igshid=1nu75c37wdjds

#sacredheartsacademy #golancers

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alentini · 5 years

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Shelley, Keats, Byron - I ragazzi che amavano il vento . Il libro è diviso in due parti. La prima è un vero e proprio romanzo breve che racconta il segmento italiano della vita dei tre poeti; la seconda è un'antologia che ripercorre i motivi che hanno ispirato la scelta italiana: la luce, l'acqua, l'aria, quel volare alto e leggero che sembra attraversare come un tema comune l'opera dei tre autori. . . . . . #libri #books #bookstagram #book #reading #bookworm #read #booklover #bookish #bibliophile #booknerd #instabook #reader #bookaddict #library #bookaholic #instagood #education #bookstagrammer #teacher #school #libros #booklove #booksofinstagram #bookshelf #poesia #poetry https://www.instagram.com/p/B-HQp7XqIDj/?igshid=19klszw56vfkk

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skylark2020 · 7 months

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Study abroad consultants in Visakhapatnam | Skylark

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It helps to have a teacher’s lineage to venture into an academic-oriented activity that would benefit aspiring students. The name ‘SKYLARK‘ was coined out of a passion for the poems of P B Shelley, an English romantic poet, regarded as one of the greatest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language.

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halfwayinlight · 7 years

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This is a collection of books mentioned or read on Gilmore Girls, minus travel and cooking books. Bold the ones you have read.

I italicized ones I’ve read part of

1984 by George Orwell The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Archidamian War by Donald Kagan The Art of Fiction by Henry James The Art of War by Sun Tzu As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Atonement by Ian McEwan Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy The Awakening by Kate Chopin Babe by Dick King-Smith Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie Bel Canto by Ann Patchett The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Beloved by Toni Morrison Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney The Bhagava Gita The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Brick Lane by Monica Ali Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner Candide by Voltaire The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman Christine by Stephen King A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse The Collected Short Stories by Eudora Welty A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare Complete Novels by Dawn Powell The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père Cousin Bette by Honor’e de Balzac Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber The Crucible by Arthur Miller Cujo by Stephen King The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Daisy Miller by Henry James Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Deenie by Judy Blume The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx The Divine Comedy by Dante The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Don Quijote by Cervantes Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn Eloise by Kay Thompson Emily the Strange by Roger Reger Emma by Jane Austen Empire Falls by Richard Russo Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton Ethics by Spinoza Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves Eva Luna by Isabel Allende Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Extravagance by Gary Krist Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson The Fellowship of the Ring: Book 1 of The Lord of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce Fletch by Gregory McDonald Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut Gender Trouble by Judith Butler George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg Gidget by Fredrick Kohner Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford The Gospel According to Judy Bloom The Graduate by Charles Webb The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Group by Mary McCarthy Hamlet by William Shakespeare Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare Henry V by William Shakespeare High Fidelity by Nick Hornby The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss How the Light Gets in by M. J. Hyland Howl by Allen Gingsburg The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo The Iliad by Homer I’m with the Band by Pamela des Barres In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy It Takes a Village by Hillary Clinton Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton Lord of the Flies by William Golding The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold The Love Story by Erich Segal Macbeth by William Shakespeare Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert The Manticore by Robertson Davies Marathon Man by William Goldman The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides The Miracle Worker by William Gibson Moby Dick by Herman Melville The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Night by Elie Wiesel Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Old School by Tobias Wolff Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens On the Road by Jack Kerouac One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan Oracle Night by Paul Auster Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Othello by Shakespeare Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan Out of Africa by Isac Dineson The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton A Passage to India by E.M. Forster The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Peyton Place by Grace Metalious The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Property by Valerie Martin Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw Quattrocento by James Mckean A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings Book 3 by J. R. R. Tolkien R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton Rita Hayworth by Stephen King Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert Roman Fever by Edith Wharton Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf A Room with a View by E. M. Forster Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi Sanctuary by William Faulkner Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen A Separate Peace by John Knowles Several Biographies of Winston Churchill Sexus by Henry Miller Shane by Jack Shaefer The Shining by Stephen King Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut Small Island by Andrea Levy Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker Songbook by Nick Hornby The Sonnets by William Shakespeare Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sophie’s Choice by William Styron The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach The Story of My Life by Helen Keller A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams Stuart Little by E. B. White Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry Time and Again by Jack Finney The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith The Trial by Franz Kafka The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Ulysses by James Joyce The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Unless by Carol Shields Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Walden by Henry David Thoreau Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

#bella reads

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fionaharnett · 5 years

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Jo Spence

Spence (b. 1934–d. 1992) emerged as a key figure in the mid 1970s from the British photographic left, crucial in debates on photography and the critique of representation. Her work engaged with a range of photographic genres, from documentary to photo therapy, and responded to the prioritisation from the late 1970s onwards of lens-based media in art-critical discourse.

Rough edged, recycled, personal – in essence positively amateur, Spence’s work stands in direct opposition to numerous artistic givens. She proposed process over object, collaboration and collectivity over heroic authorship and, above all, generosity (to self and other) over the pursuit of any singular creative ambition. While adroit with its arguments, she swerved the academic theorisation of photography, preferring an experimental and biographical exploration of ideas. This resulted in a richly didactic yet highly idiosyncratic output, one that is playful, silly even at times, while also being capable of delivering images of excoriating intensity.

Spence held the firm belief that photography has an empowering capacity when applied to complex issues of class, power, gender, health and the body. From this perspective she rallied against all forms of hegemony, dominance and control. Her critical concerns, be they with the idea of naturalism in the documentary image or protocols within the National Health Service, became the primary productive principal for her output, drawing her into action – variably as an artist, writer, activist, community leader, adult educator and patient.

While a prevailing wind of cultural pessimism might propose Spence’s work as specifically periodic, to those who know it, and to those who – through this exhibition – will come to know it, it is clear that she has much to offer contemporary audiences. Her work is best described as energetic, one that is constantly agitating, asking awkward questions, and pushing against things. It is no wonder that Spence was never quite at ease with the title ‘artist’. Instead she had a preference – one linked both to the behavioural condition of the photographer, but also to the nature of her critical enterprise, that of ‘cultural sniper’.

On the twentieth anniversary of her death, Jo Spence Work (Part I and Part II) offers an important opportunity to experience a significant presentation of the photographer’s practice first hand. In doing so, we hope the exhibition allows for a recognition of the relevance of her work and working methods, both of which remain as sharply radical and transformative today as they were over two decades ago.

The exhibition is chronologically split across the two sites:

[space]’s presentation will focus on Spence’s work from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and will explore the explicitly social and political dimensions of her early solo and collaborative work. Studio Voltaire will present later works from the early 1980s up to the artist’s death in 1992. The latter works broadly deal with issues of health, therapy, self-empowerment and mortality.

In recent years, her practice has received attention with retrospectives of Spence’s work at MACBA, Barcelona (2005) and Camera Austria, Graz (2006), and her inclusion in Documenta 12 (2007). Her work is represented in international public collections including MACBA, Barcelona; GOMA, Glasgow; Ryerson Image Centre, Canada; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

As an integral part of the project, Studio Voltaire has launched Not Our Class. This new long-term programme of education and participatory projects takes the work of Jo Spence as a starting point for investigating the legacy and potentials of her work in relation to contemporary culture and life. Through a series of commissions, offsite projects, workshops, public events, and reading groups situated both within Studio Voltaire’s neighbourhood and contemporary art discourse the programme will explore the new turn towards education and participation within contemporary art practice. The programme will include new commissions by artists Marysia Lewandowska working with The Jo Spence Memorial Archive, and Rehana Zaman working with King’s College Hospital and Body & Soul. Additionally Mystique Holloway, Ego Ahaiwe, Louise Shelley, Gina Nembhard, Emma Hedditch, Lauren Craig and Zoe Holloway have set up the research group X Marks The Spot based at Lambeth Women’s Project.

The exhibition is chronologically split across the two sites:

Jo Spence, Work (Part II), 2012. Installation View, Studio Voltaire, London. Courtesy of the artist, The Jo Spence Memorial Archive and Studio Voltaire, London. Credit Andy Keate.

#further research #5IMAG016W #advancedmethods

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wildlishlywritten147posts-blog · 5 years

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Reference List:

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Bansky, 2014, ‘The crying child’, Vancouver, viewed 20/3/19

http://banksy.co.uk/

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Brooks, P 2001, ‘Troubling confessions: speaking guilt in law and literature’, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Dautrich, B 2018, ‘What is sensory Knowledge?’, Professor Emerita Educational Psychology, American International College, Quora, Viewed on 25/3/19

https://www.quora.com/What-is-sensory-knowledge

Callie, D 2018, ‘By The Beach’, youtube, viewed on 21/3/19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BTxuvCepIY

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Inguanez, N 2019, ‘People Painting’, viewed on 22/3/19

https://www.saatchiart.com/ninguanez

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Mansfield, N 2000, ‘Subjectivity: theories of the self from Freud to Haraway’, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, NSW

Media Coursework, 2015, ‘Ident Megan Liam and Molly’ viewed on 21/3/19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJG1OuO5fxw

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https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-The-Mask-She-Hides-Behind/519729/2195580/view

Scribner, 2014, ‘All the Light We Cannon See’, USA

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Charles H. Houston

Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was a prominent African-American lawyer, Dean of Howard University Law School, and NAACP first special counsel, or Litigation Director. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws, especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. He earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow".

Houston is also well known for having trained and mentored a generation of black attorneys, including Thurgood Marshall, future founder and director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the first Black Supreme Court Justice. He recruited young lawyers to work on the NAACP's litigation campaigns, building connections between Howard's and Harvard's university law schools.

Biography

Early years

Houston was born in Washington, D.C., to a middle-class family who lived in the Striver section. His father William Le Pré Houston, the son of a former slave, had become an attorney and practiced in the capital for more than four decades. Charles' mother, Mary (née Hamilton) Houston, worked as a seamstress. Houston attended segregated local schools, graduating from the academic (college preparatory) Dunbar High School. He studied at Amherst College beginning in 1911, was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, and graduated as valedictorian in 1915, the only black student in his class. He returned to D.C. and taught English at Howard University, a historically black college.

As the U.S. entered World War I, Houston joined the U.S. Army as an officer. The military was racially segregated. From 1917 to 1919, he served as a First Lieutenant in the United States Infantry, based in Fort Meade, Maryland, with service in France. Houston wrote later:

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

After his return to the U.S. in 1919, he entered Harvard Law School. He was the first black student elected to the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review and graduated cum laude. Houston was also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He earned a bachelor's of law in 1922 and a JD from Harvard in 1923. That same year he was awarded a Sheldon Traveling Fellowship to study at the University of Madrid. After his return, he was admitted to the Washington, DC bar in 1924 and joined his father's practice.

In 1924 Houston married Gladys Moran. They divorced in 1937. He next married Henrietta Williams. They had Houston's only child in 1940, Charles Hamilton Houston, Jr.

Career

When several black lawyers were refused admission to the American Bar Association in 1925, they founded the National Bar Association. Houston was a founding member of the affiliated Washington Bar Association.

He was recruited to Howard University by the first African-American president, Mordecai Johnson. From 1929 to 1935, Houston served as Vice-Dean and Dean of the Howard University School of Law. He developed the school, beginning its years as a major national center for training black lawyers. He extended its part-time program to a full-time curriculum and gained accreditation by the Association of American Law Schools and the American Bar Association. Bringing prominent attorneys to the school as speakers and to build a law network for his students, Houston served as a mentor to a generation. He influenced nearly one-quarter of all the black lawyers in the United States at the time, including former student Thurgood Marshall, who became a United States Supreme Court justice. Houston believed that the law could be used to fight racial discrimination and encouraged his students to work for such social purpose.

Houston left Howard in 1935 to serve as the first special counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), serving in this role until 1940. In this capacity he created litigation strategies to attack racial housing covenants and segregated schools, arguing several important civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Through his work at the NAACP, Houston played a role in nearly every civil rights case that reached the US Supreme Court between 1930 and Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Houston worked to bring an end to the exclusion of African Americans from juries across the South. He defended African-American George Crawford on charges of murder in Loudoun County, Virginia, in 1933, and saved him from the electric chair.

In the related Hollins v. State of Oklahoma (1935), Houston led an all-black legal team before the US Supreme Court to appeal another murder case in which the defendant was convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to death. The defense team had challenged the all-white jury during the trial, but the conviction was upheld by the appeals court. Hearing the case a certiorari, the Supreme Court reversed the lower court's decision and ordered a new trial. Hollins was tried a third time, again before an all-white jury, and was convicted in 1936. He was sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1950. "It is now widely believed that he was innocent." At the time, Oklahoma and southern states systematically excluded blacks from juries, in part because they were not on the voter rolls, having been disenfranchised across the South since the turn of the century by state barriers to voter registration. In the 21st century, attorneys continue to have to challenge prosecutorial strategies that exclude blacks from juries.

Houston's strategy on public education was to attack segregation by demonstrating the inequality resulting from the "separate but equal" doctrine dating from the Supreme Court's Plessy v. Ferguson (1897). He orchestrated a campaign to force southern districts to build facilities for blacks equal to those for whites, or to integrate their facilities. He focused on law schools because, at the time, mostly males attended them. He believed this would obviate the fears whites expressed that integrated schools would lead to interracial dating and marriage. In Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1939), Houston argued that it was unconstitutional for Missouri to exclude blacks from the state's university law school when, under the "separate but equal" provision, no comparable facility for blacks existed within the state.

In the documentary "The Road to Brown", Hon. Juanita Kidd Stout described Houston's strategy related to segregated schools:

When he attacked the "separate but equal" theory his real thought behind it was that "All right, if you want it separate but equal, I will make it so expensive for it to be separate that you will have to abandon your separateness." And so that was the reason he started demanding equalization of salaries for teachers, equal facilities in the schools and all of that.

Houston founded a law firm, Houston & Gardner, with Wendell P. Gardner, Sr. It later included, as name partners, William H. Hastie, William B. Bryant, Emmet G. Sullivan, and Joseph C. Waddy, each of whom were later appointed as federal judges. The firm was prestigious but their work not well-compensated. Ten members of the firm advanced to become judges, including Theodore Newman, Wendell Gardner, Jr., the son of Wendell Gardner; and Emmet Sullivan.

Houston's efforts to dismantle the legal theory of "separate but equal" were completed after his death in 1950 with the historic Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruling, which prohibited segregation in public schools. At one point Houston had carried a movie camera as he traveled across South Carolina, in order to document the inequalities of facilities, materials and teachers' salaries between African-American and white education. As Special Counsel to the NAACP, Houston dispatched Thurgood Marshall, Oliver Hill and other young attorneys to work a litigation campaign of court challenges to equalize teachers' salaries.

Houston also directed the NAACP's campaign to end restrictive housing covenants. In the early 20th century, the organization had won a United States Supreme Court case, Buchanan v. Warley (1917), which prohibited state and local jurisdictions from establishing restrictive housing. Real estate developers and agents developed restrictive covenants and deeds. The Court ruled in Corrigan v. Buckley (1926) that such restrictions were the acts of individuals and beyond the reach of the constitutional protections. As the NAACP continued with its campaign in the 1940s, Houston drew from contemporary sociological and other studies to demonstrate that such covenants and resulting segregation produced conditions of overcrowding, poor health, and increased crime that adversely affected African-American communities. Following Corrigan, Houston contributed to what was a 22-year campaign, in concert with lawyers he had trained, in order to overturn the constitutionality of restrictive covenants. This was achieved in the US Supreme Court ruling in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). The court ruled that "judicial enforcement of private right constitutes state action for the purpose of the fourteenth amendment." Houston's use of sociological materials in these cases lay the groundwork for the approach and ruling in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).

Death

Houston died from a heart attack on April 22, 1950, at the age of 54.

Legacy and honors

In 1950, Houston was posthumously awarded the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.

In 1958, the main building of the Howard University School of Law was dedicated as Charles Hamilton Houston Hall.

The Charles Houston Bar Association and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, established at Harvard Law School in 2005, were named for him. Elena Kagan, formerly the Dean of Harvard Law School, was also the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law there; she is now an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

The Washington Bar Association annually awards the Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit to an individual who has advanced the cause of Houstonian jurisprudence.

In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante included Charles Hamilton Houston on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.

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