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Mississippi Bridge

2000-06-01 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2000-06-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 269/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mississippi Bridge by : Mildred D. Taylor

Download or read book Mississippi Bridge written by Mildred D. Taylor. This book was released on 2000-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. A day of conflict and tragedy. Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the weekly bus from Jackson comes through his town. His neighbor Stacey Logan and Stacey's brothers and sister are there to see their grandmother off on a trip. Jeremy's friend Josias Williams is taking the bus to his new job. But Josias and the Logans are black, and in Mississippi in the 1930s, black people can't ride the bus if that means there won't be enough room for white people to ride. When several white passengers arrive at the last minute, the driver sends Josias and Stacey's grandmother off the bus. Then comes a terrifying moment that unites all the townspeople in a nightmare that will change their lives forever. “Well written and thought provoking, this book will haunt readers and generate much discussion.”—School Library Journal

Rails Across the Mississippi

2001 Bridges
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Release : 2001
Genre : Bridges
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Book Rating : 805/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Rails Across the Mississippi by : Robert Wendell Jackson

Download or read book Rails Across the Mississippi written by Robert Wendell Jackson. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tale of grand dreams, shady politics, daring engineering experiments, greed, ambition, and westward expansion, Rails across the Mississippi is the first book-length history since 1881 to document the planning, financing, and construction of the first bridge across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, a national engineering landmark completed in 1874 that is now known as the Eads Bridge. Robert W. Jackson takes a fresh look at this monumental project, dispersing the myths and filling in the gaps left by earlier scholarship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Mississippi Bridge

2000-06 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2000-06
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 176/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mississippi Bridge by : Mildred D. Taylor

Download or read book Mississippi Bridge written by Mildred D. Taylor. This book was released on 2000-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers. Then, in the driving rain, disaster strikes and Jeremy witnesses a shocking end to the day's drama.

Hanging Bridge

2016 HISTORY
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Release : 2016
Genre : HISTORY
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Book Rating : 565/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Hanging Bridge by : Jason Morgan Ward

Download or read book Hanging Bridge written by Jason Morgan Ward. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer, Clarke lay squarely in what many considered Mississippi's, and thus America's, meanest corner ... Ward ... traces a legacy of violence that reflects the American experience of race, from the depths of Jim Crow through to the growing power of the NAACP and national awareness of what was taking places even in the country's bleakest racial landscapes"--

The I-35W Bridge Collapse

2018-07 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Release : 2018-07
Genre : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Book Synopsis The I-35W Bridge Collapse by : Kimberly J. Brown (Journalist)

Download or read book The I-35W Bridge Collapse written by Kimberly J. Brown (Journalist). This book was released on 2018-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bridge shouldn't just fall down," Senator Amy Klobuchar said after the August 1, 2007, collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W eight-lane steel truss bridge, which killed 13 motorists, injured 145, and left a collective wound on the city's psyche and infrastructure. On her way to a soccer game with a fellow teammate, Kimberly J. Brown experienced the collapse firsthand, falling 114 feet in her teammate's car to the Mississippi River. Although terrified, injured, and in shock, she survived. In this sobering memoir and exposé, Brown recounts her harrowing experience. In the aftermath of the disaster, Brown became both an advocate for survivors and an unofficial whistle-blower about decaying infrastructure. She details her investigation and correspondence with Thornton Tomasetti engineers, including the false official account of the collapse and the eventual revelation of its real causes. In addition, she chronicles the ongoing decay of America's bridges and the continuing challenges faced by leaders to address infrastructure problems across the country. After nearly a decade of research into the collapse and her active and ongoing recovery from psychic and physical injuries, Brown shares her experience and answers the questions we should all be asking: Why did this bridge collapse? And what could have been done to prevent this tragedy?

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