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  1. Jujitsu for Christ
    a novel
    Author: Butler, Jack
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781617037399; 1617037397; 1621039277; 9781621039273
    Subjects: FICTION / General; FICTION / Literary; Civil rights movements; Families; Race relations; Geschichte; Civil rights movements; Families
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A.L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T.J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus--who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children. As the political heat ris

  2. Jujitsu for Christ
    a novel
    Author: Butler, Jack
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    Cover; Contents; Author's Preface; Jujitsu for Christ; Afterword. Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio... more

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    Cover; Contents; Author's Preface; Jujitsu for Christ; Afterword. Jack Butler's Jujitsu for Christ--originally published in 1986--follows the adventures of Roger Wing, a white born-again Christian and karate instructor who opens a martial arts studio in downtown Jackson, Mississippi, during the tensest years of the Civil Rights era. Ambivalent about his religion and his region, he befriends the Gandys, an African-American family--parents A.L. and Snower Mae, teenaged son T.J., daughter Eleanor Roosevelt, and youngest son Marcus--who has moved to Jackson from the Delta in hopes of greater opportunity for their children. As the political heat ris

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1617037397; 1621039277; 9781617037399; 9781621039273
    Subjects: Families; Civil rights movements; Civil rights movements; Families; Race relations; FICTION ; General; FICTION ; Literary; Fiction; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
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    Includes bibliographical references