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You know many of Woody Guthrie’s songs: “This Land Is Your Land,” “Oklahoma Hills,” “The Sinking of the Reuben James,” “So Long It’s Been Good to Know Yuh,” “Roll On, Columbia,” “Union Maid,” “This Train Is Bound for Glory,” “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” and on and on. Now author Stan Paregien Sr makes it easy to learn more about the man himself and his philosophy, and to perhaps dispel a myth or two about him. This Kindle e-book is a carefully researched yet highly readable story of the diverse influences upon singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie and...

Clark Luper: the Mother of Oklahoma's Civil Rights Movement is a book about a woman, recently deceased, who grew up being stifled and restricted by Oklahoma's "Jim Crow" (anti-Black) laws and social customs. By profession a teacher and motivator of students, in 1958 she led a group of Black students into the Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City. The store would had a food counter but would not serve Blacks. So these young people sat down on the counter stools and asked to be served, then when refused they just sat there--peacefully and pacifly--making their point and preventing other ...