Atetegeb Worku Memorial Orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia run by Haregewoin Tefarra, an Ethiopian woman who opened her home to hundreds of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, and whose inspiring life story is documented in Melissa Fay Greene’s There Is No Me Without You: One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Africa's Children.
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction (ISBN 0-201-55048-2) by Melissa Fay Greene narrates the events surrounding the civil rights movement in McIntosh County, particularly the demise of white Sheriff Thomas H. Poppell and the 1978 election of black rights activist Thurnell Alston to the county commission.
Last Man Out was named a Best Book of the Year by Chicago Tribune, Globe and Mail, the Cox newspaper chain, and the New York Public Library.
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The worldwide focus on the rescue of the first group—through newspapers, television news reports, and movie theater news-reels—inspired a few highly placed officials in the administration of Governor Governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia, a staunch segregationist, to invite the survivors and their families to vacation on the coastal resort of Jekyll Jekyll Island, Georgia.
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Last Man Out (2002) tells the story of the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia and the absurdist American white supremacist coda to the spectacular rescue of a handful of Canadian men.
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