Terrence Roberts (53 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED! Inscribed, personalized (See Photos)! Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos!) First Edition, 2010, with full number line, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 . Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, slight crease at front bottom left near spine edge. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. ABOUT: He was once a scared teen, facing-off an armed soldier who denied him access to Little Rock Central High School. He was admitted only after President Eisenhower ordered the US Army's 101st Airborne Division to escort him into the school. Now Terrence Roberts is a hero of the civil rights struggle, a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Perhaps you have seen or heard him on Oprah, The Tavis Smiley Show, The Today Show, or other media. A psychologist and former university dean, he now tours the country giving up to 100 speeches a year. This book collects key Martin Luther King Day speeches and other public addresses that reflect his core values and concerns for our society. The record of his remarkable life is a treasure for every Americanindeed, every world citizento hold dear, to celebrate, and to emulate. "Roberts was one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of African American teenagers who were the first to integrate Central High School in the Arkansas capital in 1957. Kept from entering the school by Arkansas National Guard, the students were finally escorted into the building by U.S. Army soldiers deployed by President Eisenhower. Since that traumatic experience, Roberts went on to successful careers in education, as a professor of psychology, and business, as the CEO of a management-consulting firm. This volume brings together his collected speeches, many of which were given as commencement addresses or as part of Martin Luther King Day celebrations. The commencement-address style is typically fraught with high seriousness and a stentorian tone; fortunately, Roberts avoi. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL 1981 softcovers journal; ex-corporate library; light foxing of covers, o/w in very good condition. Journal.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Full number line. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Inscribed by the author "Jan 18, 2013 To: Brian Be on of those who will challenge the status quo! Terrence Roberts". Fine copy in fine dust jacket (in mylar). 188 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Lessons From Little Rock. Autographed, inscribed and personalized by Terrence Roberts. 1st edition. Please read the full description carefully before purchasing any product. Book does not come with Certificate of Authenticity and/or any type of provenance. Book and/or dust jacket may consist of a sticky residue, foxing, water stains, fingerprints, dirt, debris, writings, scratches, scuff marks, creases, wrinkles, rips, tears, folds, minor staining, previous stickers, or labels applied by the retail store, manufacture and/or previous owner. I am not a book expert. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. NY: Merlin Press. Pseudonym of Ivan Terence Sanderson (1911-1973), Scottish-born US writer and illustrator on the natural sciences, as in Living Treasure ( 1941 ), about wildlife around the Caribbean. As Roberts his sf novel was Report on the Status Quo ( 1955 ), a disaster story set in 1958-1959, after World War III has catapulted the world into a sudden climate change accompanied by a return of the dinosaurs. Light wear and minor soiling to covers. Very slight fraying to the spine ends. Soiling, offset, and toning to endpapers. Hinges starting but holding well. LR 2/1E.

First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black rexine titled to spine in gilt. Dustjacket. 187pp. A near fine copy in dustjacket. Internally clean. Inscribed by the author to the title page: "To David, Terrence Roberts" Roberts' memoir of the life, and indeed world, changing experience of being one the Little Rock 9, and struggling for the desegregation of education in general, and against segregation in general, aganst the backdrop of the racial powder keg of late 1950's Arkansas.