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1936–1966. The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded by Victor Hugo Green, an African American, New York City postal worker who published it annually from 1936 to 1966. This was during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often ...
School violence. School violence includes violence between school students as well as attacks by students on school staff and attacks by school staff on students. It encompasses physical violence, including student-on-student fighting, corporal punishment; psychological violence such as verbal abuse, and sexual violence, including rape and ...
All Boys Aren't Blue. All Boys Aren't Blue is a young adult non-fiction " memoir -manifesto" by journalist and activist George M. Johnson, [ 1] published April 28, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux . The book consists of a series of essays following Johnson's journey growing up as a queer Black man in Plainfield, New Jersey, [ 2] and Virginia.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. [ 1] The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006).
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence is a nonfiction self-help book ( Dell Publishing 1997, republished with new epilogue 1998) written by Gavin de Becker. The book argues that every individual should learn to trust the inherent "gift" of their gut instinct . The Gift of Fear spent four months on The New York Times ...
Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
Elliot Pittel M.D. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston says: "Lost Boys makes an important contribution to the literature on the causes and prevention of youth violence." The book has also received praise from Marian Wright Edelman, President and Founder, Children's Defense Fund:
School violence prevention through education is the attempt to reduce violence and bullying through comprehensive approaches and interventions within the education sector. It aims to create a safe and non-violent learning environment. Acceptable practices include strong leadership; a safe and inclusive school environment; developing knowledge ...