Mary Frances: 81 books
A Harlot's Cry
One Woman's Thirty-Five-Year Journey through the Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
It all started at an ice cream truck.
In a typical American city on a typical neighborhood street, fifteen-year-old Mary Frances found herself the object of interest to Dirty Dan, a biker gang member more than a decade her senior. Neglected, abused, and hungry, Mary thought she had found the...
My Face Is Black Is True
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Acclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, demanded reparations for ex-slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861-1928) went on to fight for African American pensions...
Make It Zero
The Movement to Safeguard Every Child
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
***"When we correct the factors that keep children at risk, we can make a difference in the lives of those children and the adults they’ll grow up to be."***— Mary Frances Bowley
Children are meant to imagine bright futures and chase them. But for the millions of at-risk children...
Power in Words
The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.
In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights...
Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich
Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation
Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations...
History Teaches Us to Resist
How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.
Despair and mourning after the election of an antagonistic or polarizing president, such as Donald Trump, is part of the push-pull of American politics. But in this incisive book, historian...
by Mary Frances Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.
Mary Frances Berry, the commission’s chairperson for more than a decade, author of My Face Is Black Is True (“An...
Black Resistance/White Law
A History of Constitutional Racism in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1995
How the government has used the Constitution to deny black Americans their legal rights
From the arrival of the first twenty slaves in Jamestown to the Howard Beach Incident of 1986, Yusef Hawkins, and Rodney King, federal law enforcement has pleaded lack of authority against white violence...
The Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice
Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
From the head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and noted professor of law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, a groundbreaking book that examines both civil and criminal court cases from the Civil War to the present, to reveal the impact of stereotyping--race, class, gender--on the American...
The Salvager
The Life of Captain Tom Reid on the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
First published in 1958, The Salvager is both a narrative history of Great Lakes shipping disasters of 1880–1950 and the life story of Captain Thomas Reid, who operated one of the region’s largest salvaging companies during that era. The treacherous shoals, unpredictable storms, and sub-zero temperatures...
Georges and Pauline Vanier
Portrait of a Couple
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Georges and Pauline Vanier follows their lives and travels across the world - from Canadian military life to the League of Nations, from the inner circles of British government to their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France - detailing their disappointments and triumphs during social and political...
A League of Dangerous Women
True Stories from the Road to Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
They are all around you–in your neighborhood, your church, even your own family. They are sisters and daughters and mothers. These young women may look like they have it together, but inside they’re hurting and hopeless. They are trapped by prostitution, alcohol, drugs, and darkness.
They...
Innovation within Tradition
Joseph Ratzinger and Reading the Women of Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Innovation within Tradition explores Joseph Ratzinger’s biblical interpretation of women and salvation history. Arguing that Ratzinger’s concept of a “female line in the Bible” brings the female characters of Scripture to the fore, Mary Frances McKenna shows how this illustrates his creative...
It’S a Long Journey
A Book of Memories
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Its a Long Journey presents the intimate memoir of Mary Frances Berkihiser. From her memories of her father going off to World War I to her struggles as a young mother to a memorable trip to the Middle East, Berkihiser shares her memories of her life.
She recalls the details of a life lived...