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On March 18, 1816, Pittsburgh was incorporated as a city. Pittsburgh ...  Allegheny County Jail - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - H.H.Richardson ... allegheny county court house | Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail is one of the best things to do . ... There's a quiet dignity to the spires and stone of the old Allegheny jail, ..... Returns (1992),My Life 1993; Multiplicity (1996), Jackie Brown (1997), Jack...
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America in Lloyd Brown's Iron City - Sites - Google  Abstract: Lloyd Brown's Iron City narrates the story of a group of incarcerated African ... One that does not exclude based on racial difference, but instead is an ... Iron City occurs within the confines of the segregated Monongahela County Jail .... their life experiences as African Americans directly to their realization of the...
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Full text of "Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; personal ...  After the war he studied law with Thomas M. Marshall and A. M. Brown; was .... During the last fifteen years of his life he was ably assisted by his son, Harry G. ...... WILLIAM CLAVER McKINLEY, sheriff of Allegheny county, Pa., was born in ..... there, afterwards com- pleting his education at the Iron City business college,...
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Full text of "Genealogical and personal history of western ...  He married, in 1862, Sarah, born in Deer Creek township, Allegheny county, ... August Keil was a life-long resident of McCandless township, there erected a house ...... Jessie Ramsey, born July 6, 1884; married George F. Lloyd, and resides in ..... in the Iron City College, from which, after distinguishing himself in his studies,...
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A History of the Juniata Valley v.1 - Scribd  26-42 CHAPTER IV First Counties in Pennsylvania  Huntingdon County  Location of County Seat  First Officers  Reduction in Size  Present Area 43-...
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update: man wanted for burglary, kidnapping turns self in - WVUA23  Apr 20, 2016 ... Police said Lane has connections in Perry County and Birmingham. ... after a 24-year-old woman says she was kidnapped from her apartment by ... The victim said her boyfriend assaulted her while they were inside the car.
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Southern Chain Gangs in Twentieth-Century American Literature ...  Apr 9, 2012 ... and take them out of play, so to speak, removing blacks from these visual fields ..... Sullivan's Travels as well as I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) .... In 1995, then-Gov. Fob James reinstituted chain gangs in Alabama, shackling together ...... vehicles for stars of the day such as Paul Muni and Richard...
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Harlan County USA | Wexner Center for the Arts  Mar 2, 2016 ... The film chronicles a 1973 coal miners' strike in Kentucky and the fierce ... for a special presentation of her landmark documentary Harlan County USA. ... Ohio (a collaboration between Ohio State's Center for Folklore Studies;...
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Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown  Reviews ...  Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) is an autobiographical novel written by ...... Strong, historically important, episodic book of surviving Harlem street life and...
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Frederick Douglass - The Pennsylvania Center for the Book  Literary Vocations: Diarist, Editor, Publisher, Orator, Speech Writer and Author ... Abstract: Born in Talbot County, Maryland in February 1818, Douglass ... Douglass also wrote three autobiographies-- the most famous of which was the ... Douglass, an American Slave (1845), My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), and the...
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Henning | Tennessee Vacation  Henning has a rich African American heritage from slavery to freedmen business owners to author Alex Haley. The town ... The museum features Haley's work, childhood memorabilia and references to the people who inspired his ... Inside Alex Haley&rsquo;s childhood home, imagine the stories that inspired &ldquo;Roots.
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Blood Imagery in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment  Jan 28, 2005 ... His novel Crime and Punishment makes frequent and graphic use of blood ... Raskolnikov first knows the old pawnbroker is dead by the blood from her ... One of his first actions following Alyona's murder is to kill her sister, Lizaveta. .... theme of the novel, which, as the title reveals, is crime and punishment.
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Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor  Reviews, Discussion ...  The 1956 Pulitzer Prize-winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War. .... It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956; was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, was ...... Then in time it's not so much of an issue as each reader launches his own personal...
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The Story Behind a Nonfiction Novel - The New York Times  Why did you select this particular subject matter of murder; had you previously .... on a deep-inside page, this headline: Wealthy Farmer, 3 of Family Slain. ... on the Farm Credit Board during the Eisenhower Administration, his wife and two .... the convict Perry admired so much (Willie-Jay he's called in the book), and also I...
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The Monday After: Vitriolic socialist Eugene V. Debs spoke, was ...  Feb 2, 2010 ... YOU CaN NOw READ 7 ARTICLES IN A MONTH FOR FREE ... There he spoke  and was arrested for  words against what he called a ... They were placed in the city jail and will be dealt with by the Canton draft officials. ... (In June 1918) ... Pro Football Hall of Fame Today 10-24-16 .... Home  News.
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Andersonville (novel) - Wikipedia  Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp, Andersonville prison, during the American Civil War (18611865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for ... Although Kantor did sell the motion picture rights of his novel to one of the major...
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The Legacies of Middletown Introduction | Connolly | Indiana ...  When Robert and Helen Lynd chose Muncie, Indiana, as the site of the social ... At the same time, African Americans were settling there at a rapid rate-more ... for Middletown Studies and Associate Professor of History at Ball State University. ..... "to excavate [the] experience of genuine religiously based community from the...
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How the Mississippi River Made Mark Twain And Vice Versa | Travel  No novelist captured the muddy waterway and its people like the creator of Huckleberry ... in the sunshineretains the sleepy charm immortalized by the author. .... say, to the Columbus-Belmont State Park, peaceful now but not alwayssome of ..... go to Elmira College to see Mark Twain's octagonal writing study and then...
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Stephen Vincent Bent  Writing in 1942, Horace Gregory said of Stephen Vincent Bent that, ... His Civil War epic, John Brown's Body earned him the Pulitzer in 1929 and was, along with the ... His work is marked by an intense engery workable in a variety of modes.
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Mark Twain - High Plains Chautauqua  Mark Twain lived during all three of America's most defining eras. ... Huckleberry Finn, published twenty years after the war, is set in slave times. ... Mark Twain gave the post-Civil War era in American history its name: the "Gilded Age, which ... 1873 novel that he co-wrote with his Hartford neighbor Charles Dudley Warner.
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Mark Twain - Writer - Biography.com  Sep 1, 2016 ... He based his fictional works "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and ... his family moved to nearby Hannibal, a bustling town of 1,000 people. ... on the Mississippi River, was in many ways a splendid place to grow up. ... Hannibal inspired several of Mark Twain's fictional locales, including "St. Petersburg" in...