History of the Mosaic Templars of America Michael Ruse Ballering's stories bring to speculative

Ballering's stories bring to speculative fiction a new lightness and absurdity and a commitment to contemporary experiences of loneliness

Schmidgen traces the emergence of the valuation of mixture to the political and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth century

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History of the Mosaic Templars of America Michael Ruse Ballering's stories bring to speculativeOriginally published in 1924 and long out of print, this book tells the story of the Mosaic Templars of America (MTA), a famous Black fraternal organization that was founded by John E. Bush and Chester W. Keatts (both former slaves) in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the late nineteenth century. The organization originally provided illness, death, and burial insurance during an era of segregation when few basic services were available to Black people, and