Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

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Necessary text to study prejudice, discrimination and other

shocking but necessary

Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb in the Modern Civil Rights Movement
Clenora Hudson-Weems
Manufacturer: Bedford Publishers Inc
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0911557075

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Necessary text to study prejudice, discrimination and other.......2003-01-12

This text opens the eyes of the reader to the savagery and despicable cruelty of the lopsided South in the 1950's. How a world can be so tainted that it would demonize the human race with such an act. Killing of a child for this so-called crime denies the existence of the world God created where human beings are meant to co-exist regardless of color. Prejudice is learned; it cannot be natural. How can it be ?

shocking but necessary.......2001-03-20

I read this book as part of Dr. Robert Weem's Black History class at the University of Missouri and I was absolutely stunned. Being one of a very few white girls growing up on the border of Mexico, I thought I had experienced racism and prejudice, boy did I have a lot to learn. I was first shocked and then just out right embarrassed that anyone, but especially someone I share any similar characteristic with (white skin in this case) could so horribly murder a child. "OH MY GOD" I repeated to myself over and over again. "OH MY GOD."-the picture of that mutilated child will surely sicken the heart of anyone, especially a parent.

I think anyone who has been disillusioned to believe that the old south (or the new south for that matter) was made up of free, happy black folks who were at last welcomed to white society at the abolition of slavery (or even in 1964 for what it is worth) needs to read this book and see the world without the rose colored glasses.

A little hard to follow, this book doesn't flow like a John Grisham novel, but if you can get through the tedious facts (I know, I am part of that now-now generation) you will find a heart wrenching and mortifying story that will change the way you see white America and the poor hand it has dealt so many black people. Also very interesting...the dissention between Till's mother, uncle and the NAACP. I completely recommend this book to anyone interested in history, knowledge, and the truth.

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She is the one who first discovered Emmett Till's significance

Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement
Clenora Hudson-Weems
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Binding: Paperback

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It has always been said that truth will ultimately prevail. This three part book represents that truism. Part One presents the untainted facts surrounding the story of Emmett Till's brutal lynching and the establishment of that incident as the true catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s. Unearthing and establishing Till as catalyst found its beginnings over thirty years later, in the 1988 Ford Doctoral Dissertation, "Emmett Till: The Impetus of the Modern Civil Rights Movement," by this author at the University of Iowa. It speaks the truth about the seminal role of the innocent fourteen-year-old northern youth whose brief visit to Mississippi, the metaphor for American racism, rendered him the status of martyr for victims of centuries of abject racial oppression. Part Two presents the raison d'être for the book, as it confronts and exposes the abominable acts of plagiarism by several people whose obvious goal is to acquire fame and fortune for themselves. Part Three highlights the continuing commitment to the struggle on the part of the author via demonstrating the Till Continuum, represented by modern day examples of Black victimization. The plight of Black farmers, who are losing 9,000 acres of land per week, and land owners in general, such as "Smokin' Joe" Frazier who lost 140 acres of prime property in Bucks County, PA valued at 100 million dollars, are supreme paradigms of this reality. Thus, the injustices of robbing Black people and their future generations of their land legacy and the theft of the intellectual property of one who is dedicated to truth in its totality are the key elements in this book. Scholars, attorneys, celebrities, and many others have offered testimonies here, thereby rendering their dedication to bringing a halt once and for all to such pervasive injustices.

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She is the one who first discovered Emmett Till's significance.......2007-02-28

This book blew me away!!! Dr. Hudson-Weems is the true keeper of the legacy of Emmett Till. She was the "first" to establish Emmett as the true catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement!!!!! Why haven't I heard of Dr. Hudson-Weems until now?!!! Her eloquence and writing style is without question. She is the only one brave enough to "tell it like it was." No other book has the whole story! If you want to know more about Emmett Till and Dr. Hudson-Weems ground-breaking work, go to [...]

The Adventures of Barnabas: The Sacrificial Lamb

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Delightful! Kid's prose to delight even adults.

The Adventures of Barnabas: The Sacrificial Lamb
Susan Parr
Manufacturer: Connection Communications
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Barnabas takes another adventurous trip...this time back to the time of Jesus' last week on earth. This rhyming coloring book let's the children visit a lamb ready for the slaughter for the Passover celebration. But, because the lambs' master has been listening to the teachings of Jesus Christ, they will no longer have to be slaughtered as, Jesus is the true Sacrificial Lamb.A heartwarming story.

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Delightful! Kid's prose to delight even adults........2002-12-01

Susan Parr's prose delights the hearts of adults...because we are all children at heart. This is a passionate story of a lamb in Jerusalem at the time of Christ's passion and death on the cross.
I found this to be a good study for the very young. It takes kids into Barnabas' new Bible adventure. Really fun. The rhymes were captivating.

Bill Sholin's "the Sacrificial Lambs" (Who Fought Like Lions)

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Fantastic!!! Couldn't have been better written.

Bill Sholin's "the Sacrificial Lambs" (Who Fought Like Lions)
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Fantastic!!! Couldn't have been better written........1998-04-20

Accurate, detailed, precise documentation of what really happened aboard the Wren. Written by one of her sailors. Too bad history is so vague about war related issues. What are we trying to HIDE?

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Bill Sholin's the sacrificial lambs, who fought like lions
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A compelling novel of man's inhumanity to man.

The Sacrificial Lamb
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A riveting tale of two childhood friends now doctors caught on opposite sides inside a Nazi concentration camp. What occurs to both men is an example of how God uses adversity in men?s lives to turn ordinary men into great leaders.

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A compelling novel of man's inhumanity to man........2003-04-11

The Sacrificial Lamb is definitely not just one more story about the holocaust. It's a compelling novel about man's inhumanity to man; of people caught up in events that comprised the most evil times of the 20th Century.
Nathan Ludwig and Stephon Baumeister first met as young boys, for a time immune to the prejudices of the adult world that was pre-war Germany. Anti-semitism forced an end to their friendship but it could not destroy the bond that had formed between them.
After his father's death, Stephon, raised by parents loyal to National Socialism, strikes a deal in which the Reich pays for his medical education, after which he is expected to work for and support the Reich. Assigned to Buchenwald, to get along, he performs experiments on the prisoners.
Nathan, after the death of his parents, is raised by relatives. He attends medical school where he meets his wife, and becomes a doctor. But he is forced from his practice by rising anti-Jewish sentiment. Sensing danger, he decides to take his family and flee Germany.
This compelling novel pulls the reader in and will not let go, as Nathan and his family are captured. While they are sent elsewhere, he is sent to Buchenwald where he once again meets Stephon.
Time passes. Nathan, with the help of prayer and God's grace, finds the courage to minister to both the spiritual and physical needs of fellow prisoners. He uses his past friendship with Stephon to acquire additional medical supplies with which to ease their pain.
Here we have a riveting story of helpless people caught up in those evil days. Doepke makes their suffering seem real as they are forced to put their lives on hold and endure tremendous suffering. We meet individuals who, because of their horrible experiences, become more than they ever thought they could be.
Living at Buchenwald, Nathan develops a closer relationship with Jesus as his personal savior and friend, and through him, a close relationship with God. Ignoring the danger of discovery, Nathan, in the tradition of Bonhoeffer and Kolbe, comforts many by praying with them, offering a belief in God and hope for the future to those open enough to listen. Stephon, watching, is not immune, and he begins to question his rigid loyalty to Hilter's goals.
As with the biblical David who answers God's call and strides purposefully toward the giant Goliath, eager to do God's work, in Nathan, we have another example of how God uses insignificant humans to accomplish His ends, and we see that adversity and suffering do, indeed, serve a useful purpose. It's been said that more poeple have come to God because of suffering and adversity than in any other way, and Jack Doepke's tale amply demonstates this truth.
I also liked the way Doepke developed his characters. These are people about whom one comes to care deeply. You'll marvel that Nathan is not caught and dragged to the ovens; that Stephon is not exposed and shot; and hope and pray, along with Nathan that his wife and sons will be found alive after the war.
A drama of excitement and moral seriousness, this book will cause you to stop and ponder the evil of those days in Europe, when civilization seemed about to perish at the hands of immoral men. I heartily recommend it.

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Sacrificial Lambs
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Selflessness and courage comprise those who join the military and go off to foreign lands to defend our country. Leaving behind family, friends and spouses, these men and women face their enemy and mortality to recognize a much grander concept: freedom.

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Therapeutic interpersonal interactions: the sacrificial lamb? : An article from: Perspectives in Psychiatric Care

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Therapeutic interpersonal interactions: the sacrificial lamb? : An article from: Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
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powerful, beautiful, evoking

The Prevalence of Dismal Psychotherapists

a strong memoir, about which I have a few criticisms

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Great Author.......2007-09-17

I have read two of her books now and neither of them were at all disapointing. She revels her whole self in this book and I find it amazing that she was able to get through all of what happen to her. It was intresting to see how her work with the young boy brought up her old baggage and she was able to make it through that. Very good book and hard to put down.

Healing is always two-sided.......2007-05-04

Annie's realization that "healing is always two-sided" seems to capture the heart and soul of the therapeutic relationship. Her artfully written narrative shows how "what has been wounded in a relationship must be, after all, healed in a relationship."

Her healing therapeutic relationships--both as a therapist and as a client--help Annie begin to move beyond the damage of her past traumatic relationships. Annie convincingly demonstrates the therapist's own sense of vulnerability has the potential to bring either tragic harm or human healing to the client. She beautifully summarizes this realization with her advice to therapists: "If it is possible to remain open to our fears and make reparations for our mistakes, our vulnerability can be used in the service of healing."

powerful, beautiful, evoking.......2004-02-19

I began this book because I am a student of Annie's. I could not put it down, feeling like I myself was becoming somehow involved with her relationship with Ben (the 5 year old boy with brown hair and bangs). I felt like I was getting inside both Annie and Ben while watching the beautiful way in which they interacted. I could not be in the room with this book without wanting to read on into the relationship that evolves. The personal aspect of the patient-therapist relationship becomes the center focus as does Annie's life outside of these interactions with Ben. The reflection, time, energy, and exposure that is demonstrated by the author in this book was by far the best I have ever seen. This has become my favorite book, one that I will never live without, and also one that will remind me of what I want to do with my life and how to do it.

The Prevalence of Dismal Psychotherapists.......2002-09-30

Harvard child psychologist and severe child abuse survivor Annie Rogers suffered psychiatric hospitalizations once or twice a year from puberty until her late twenties -- when, after a six year insidiously inept and crazymaking "therapy," an attempt to stab and shoot that therapist and one last hospitalization for another word salad psychosis (and no more insurance), her exceptional and no doubt desperate sister and friends found the gifted and pro bono analyst Dr. Blumenfeld. If this exceptional memoir hasn't become a classic must read in psychology with many reviews by both patients and therapists by now, there are unfortunate reasons. One is that Annie's politically correct adolescence shows in her disdain for the "medical models and diagnoses" Dr. Blumenfeld himself could afford to abandon only because he knew them and the blind therapists who live by them so well -- and thus could authentically reach and stabilize the talented and brilliant, borderline and psychotic personality and doctoral intern Annie. "You have a kind of giftedness, Annie, that probably has always been inseparable from your suffering, and we don't know very much about that yet." What we need now is a wonderful book from the exceptional and sainted Dr. Blumenfeld and more from the healed and gifted writer Dr. Rogers on the two sided magic of play therapy with children. You must meet Annie's beloved "oppositional" 5 year old patient Ben and ponder the 7 foot angel "Theosporus" who protected and accompanied Annie from age 6 to Dr. Blumenfeld's office at 27. A Shining Affliction raises more questions than it answers -- it might have been twice as long, and it's hard to tell if important details were deliberately or unconsciously left out. As it is, it's a daring memoir by a once psychotic Harvard child psychologist that should be a controversial must read classic in both child and adult psychotherapy.

a strong memoir, about which I have a few criticisms.......2001-09-01

At its best it reminded me strongly of I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, in that it shows the healing relationship between an excellent therapist and a disturbed female patient. This book had the added benefit of having the patient/author also be a therapist, and while being healed herself doing a marvelous job of participating in the healing of a young boy whose problems are remarkably similar to her own.

The book was beautifully written, very open and revealing, and gentle in its nature. I also was grateful to hear the author write of her experiences with a TERRIBLE therapist, who, for self-protection, violated therapeutic boundaries left and right and essentially drove the author mad.

A few criticisms:
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A Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy
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Insight, explanations, and practical solutions for overcoming insecurity and sensitivity -- from a top psychologist

In simple language, Joseph Nowinski explains that insecurity is not a flaw or shortcoming, but rather a personality trait that reflects both temperament and life experiences. And, most important, he shows how insecurity can be conquered so that one can thrive -- especially in work and love.

The first book to investigate insecurity, The Tender Heart sheds light on its common causes and provides guidelines for overcoming the self-doubt, debilitating self-consciousness, and chronic lack of confidence that prevent many people from enjoying life to its fullest. Combining personality quizzes and case histories of people who have conquered their insecurities, The Tender Heart offers expert advice on:

Healing insecurity
Avoiding emotional predators who seek out sensitive people
Coping with a tough-hearted partner or colleague
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Raising children who are self-confident

The Tender Heart is for anyone who has experienced times when their own insecurity or the insecurity of others has interfered with valued relationships or prevented them from realizing their potential.

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insecurity is not a flaw or shortcoming, but rather a personality trait that reflects both innate temperament and individual life experiences. He sheds light on common causes of insecurity and provides guidelines for conquering the self-doubt, debilitating self-consciousness, and chronic lack of confidence that prevent many people from enjoying life to the fullest -- especially in their romantic and professional relationships. Combining personality quizzes, case histories of people who have "recovered" from insecurity, and authoritative advice, The Tender Heart offers expert advice on: -- Avoiding emotional predators who prey on sensitive people -- Coping with a tough-hearted partner or colleague -- Finding your emotional mate -- Raising children who are self-confident Everyone has experienced times when their own insecurity or the insecurity of others result in negative feelings and even the destruction of valued relationships. The Tender Heart makes it possible to express one's sensitivity in positive ways in personal and professional situations.

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A starting point to find insecurity within yourself.......2007-07-07

I've read the other reviews claiming this book doesn't live up to expectations. Whilst I agree in some ways, and did find it often repetitive, I personally got a lot out of it. By taking the time to reflect after each chapter on how it applied to my life I was able to better process this. A big part of me wanted to jump straight to solution mode but by working through my own "stuff" and looking back on my childhood etc I was able to better understand my own insecurities. After that I basically came up with the solutions on my own - it all comes down to self awareness. Too often we rely on books to help us solve our problems rather than use them as a key to unlock our own ability to help ourselves. Dont dismiss this book as I believe it has a lot to offer and has helped me immensely.

Very helpful ........2007-01-05

I agree that the author does not provide specifics on solving the problem of insecurity. However, I don't think that was his purpose in this book. He focuses on providing an understanding of the tenderhearted personality type. The information was very helpful to me, opening my eyes up to aspects of this issue that I had not considered previously. I learned a lot from this book.

The Tender Heart: Conquering your Insecurity.......2006-08-31

It was the best book I have read on the subject. My husband read it as well. Really explained a lot--it was like a light bulb went off. Excellent! I even bought another copy for my son.

Conquering your Insecurities...title is VERY misleading!.......2005-07-30

This book did have a great start... I was flipping through the pages reading, and I was left with a one page- "how to"... I thought that this whole book was to HELP you conquer your insecurities, not just give you a quick little "over-view" of what you're SUPPOSED to be doing...
The title is misleading, and I definently wouldn't recommend this self-help book to anyone!

Subtitle inacurate.......2004-06-26

Yes - this book did have a great start... I was flipping through the pages reading each one carefully waiting to see where the author gets to the "conquering your insecurites"... I was left with a one page- three step recipe to acomplish what the book claims. The title is misleading... maybe it was done so purposefully to write part II?

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On the heels of the hugely successful "California Wine Map", The Wine Appreciation Guild has just released the "Quick Access Napa-Sonoma Wine Country Map and Guide" spotlighting the wineries and vineyards of the country's wine capital. This full color, topographically precise map is the most comprehensive Napa-Sonoma wine map on the market with over 400 wineries and vineyards.

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A must-buy for your next wine country tour.......2006-06-15

For my latest trip to Napa/Sonoma wine country, I purchased several books beforehand in the hopes that, among all of our choices, we'd be able to find the perfect, off-the-beaten-path winery. We did in Tres Sabores, although sadly most of their wine had been damaged in a fire.

Having a good book or two on the wineries and restaurants is helpful, but in the end, this map, with it's simple laminated 4-fold design, road map with wineries and tasting rooms labelled on one side, and on the other side, an alphabetical list of wineries, their hours and phone numbers, was the most useful.

Whatever the price, this clear and comprehensive tool is worth three times as much. And definitely stop by and have a chat with the folks at Tres Sabores.

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