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"Mother Parks, Take Your Rest" Rosa Louise McCauley Parks 1913-2005
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On December 1, 1955, Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, a 42-year-old black seamstress, took her usual bus ride home from work in Montgomery, Alabama. She sat in the front of the "colored section" on the city-run bus. But Jim Crow ordinances required black passengers to give up their seats and move to the rear if the white section of the bus had become full when additional white passengers came on board.
When a white man could not find a seat in the white section, the bus driver demanded that Mrs. Parks move to the rear. She said, "No."
Mrs. Parks, who died this October at the age of 92, was ...
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AUTHOR WELL VERSED IN 'POET'S LIFE' WRITING BIOGRAPHY TOOK 10 YEARS TO COMPLETE.(EDITORIAL)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
; ...also maintained a lifelong friendship with publisher Harold Monro, who published much of her work. Many readers aren...had been committed to, Brooke House, was owned by Harold Monro's family. The one question Jones will never be able...
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THE GEORGIAN POETS IN DYMOCK.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...moved into a small attic room above Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, at 35 Devonshire...s breakfasts. Such terms were Monro's contribution to the preservation...there Geraldine Audrey Townshend, Harold Monro's secretary, whom he carried...
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The English years of Robert Frost.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...he certainly benefited from it. Harold Monro was at the centre of this movement...as Frost arrived in London--Monro took the bold step of renting a...recently. Marsh agreed to edit it and Harold Monro, using The Poetry Bookshop imprint...
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Frost and the cradle of lyric poetry
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...when he attended the opening of a book shop run by Harold Monro on Devonshire Street in London. There he met F.S...England the victorious," he wrote in a farewell note to Harold Monro. He was driven back to America in early 1915 by the...
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Richard Aldington: An Autobiography in Letters.
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly
; ...modernism of Bloomsbury: D.H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell, Harold Monro, John Cournos. Through his work on The Egoist, Aldington...span of Aldington's life (the earliest letter--to Harold Monro--is dated 1912; the final letter--to Eric Warman...
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When tax applies over gifts to family; PROBLEM POST.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; ...I have the rest of the poem and will put this in the post to you. The lines are by the English poet Harold Monro (1879-1932). In 1911 Monro founded the Poetry Review. This later became Poetry and Drama (1913) and later Chapbook (19191925...
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Books: There was a fine poet from Devon... This year the Ways With Words Literature Festival at Dartington Hall incorporates its very own poetry festival. Fiona Sampson will be talking about her plans as new editor for the prestigious 'Poetry Review'
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...Poetry Review was founded in 1912. Its first editor was Harold Monro who, in refusing the editorship of the Poetry Society...committee (1952- 62), the journal resumed the task Monro had set for it. Since the 1970s, well-known editors...
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Wilfred Owen Without the Myths. .(Wilfred Owen: A New Biography)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...dispelling many of the myths with which Harold had surrounded him. In writing Journey...an objective and accurate record, Harold's portrait of his older brother...was drawn into the gay circle of Harold Monro, Robbie Ross and Charles Scott Moncrieff...
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A memorable voice, found only to be lost
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...surmounted. Owen's younger brother Harold betrayed his own neuroses by destroying...resentful of his older brother, Harold wanted to portray Wilfred as a kind...the Decadents; but influenced by Harold Monro, and especially by Siegfried Sassoon...
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Heywood Hill's at 60
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Again, other cultish London bookshops in the past Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, home of the Georgians, Birrell...to her being wined and dined by Gore Vidal in Rome, Harold Acton at La Pietra. She had a long correspondence with...
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