John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture – serie
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Black Arts Movement
Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s
Häftad, 2005
471 kr
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Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 1960s coalesced to form the Black Arts Movement, the cultural wing of the Black Power Movement. In this comprehensive analysis, James Smethurst examines …
Root and Branch
African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863
Häftad, 1999
544 kr
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In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined …
Color of the Law
Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South
Häftad, 1999
515 kr
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On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accused of attacking a white radio repairman at a local department store. That night, after Stephenson was safely out of town, four of Columbia's police …
Broadcasting Freedom
Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938-1948
Häftad, 1999
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The World War II era represented the golden age of radio as a broadcast medium in the United States; it also witnessed a rise in African-American activism against racial segregation and discrimination, especially as they were practised by the federal government itself. In this study, the author …
Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945
Häftad, 2001
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Linking the labor movement to African Americans' campaign for racial equality Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard …
Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North
Av Patrick Rael
Häftad, 2002
515 kr
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Early black protest thought and its contribution to black self-definition; Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany - these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in …
Proudly We Can Be Africans
Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
Häftad, 2002
515 kr
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The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitudes toward and responses to these liberation struggles, James Meriwether probes the shifting meaning of Africa in the intellectual, political, and …
Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta
Häftad, 2002
544 kr
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When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal …
Claims of Kinfolk
African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South
Häftad, 2003
515 kr
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In The Claims of Kinfolk , Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from the heyday of plantation slavery to the ""freedom generation"" of the 1870s. By focusing on relationships …
Left of the Color Line
Race, Radicalism, and Twentieth-Century Literature of the United States
Häftad, 2003
607 kr
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This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s to the present. In particular, the contributors explore the participation of writers and intellectuals on the Left in the development of African …
Journey of Hope
The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s
Häftad, 2004
515 kr
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Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century with the rise of Jim Crow segregation and …
Little Taste of Freedom
The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
Häftad, 2005
458 kr
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Talks about the long freedom struggle, from the Supreme Court to the grocery store line in this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi. Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities …
North Carolina Slave Narratives
The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones
Häftad, 2005
471 kr
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Moving testaments to the struggle for freedom The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national - and international - indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina …
Grassroots Garveyism
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
Häftad, 2007
471 kr
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The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. But as Mary Rolinson demonstrates, the largest number of Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) divisions and Garvey's most devoted and loyal …
Battling the Plantation Mentality
Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
Häftad, 2007
515 kr
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African American freedom is often defined in terms of emancipation and civil rights legislation, but it did not arrive with the stroke of a pen or the rap of a gavel. No single event makes this more plain, Laurie Green argues, than the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike, which culminated in …
Self-Taught
African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
Häftad, 2007
399 kr
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In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to …
Upbuilding Black Durham
Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
Av Leslie Brown
Häftad, 2008
515 kr
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This book describes how diversity and dissent strengthened the black community.In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black …
All Bound Up Together
The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
Häftad, 2007
387 kr
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The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. ""All Bound Up Together"" explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating …
African Cherokees in Indian Territory
From Chattel to Citizens
Häftad, 2008
471 kr
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This book describes acculturation and resistance in the Cherokee Nation.Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day …
American Africans in Ghana
Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era
Häftad, 2008
472 kr
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This book describes the U.S. civil rights movement and the decolonization of AfricaWhen the West African nation of Ghana gained its independence from British colonial rule in 1957, people of African descent the world over celebrated the new nation as a beacon for their aspirations for freedom and …
Emancipation's Diaspora
Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest
Häftad, 2009
515 kr
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This book addresses reconstruction-era struggles for civil rights and citizenship. Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. …
Faithful Account of the Race
African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
Häftad, 2009
471 kr
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This book reconstructs a lost milieu of historical writing. The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall notes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the …
Joining Places
Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South
Häftad, 2009
457 kr
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This title remaps slave society. In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go courting and …
Right to Ride
Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy V. Ferguson
Häftad, 2010
399 kr
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A civil rights movement in an earlier generation. Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. ""Right to …
First Fruits of Freedom
The Migration of Former Slaves and Their Search for Equality in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1862-1900
Häftad, 2010
471 kr
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Union soldiers facilitate migration to their own hometown. Offering a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, ""First Fruits of Freedom"" chronicles one of the first collective migrations of blacks from the South to the North during and after …
Living for the City
Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California
Häftad, 2010
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This title presents Black Power politics on the campus and the street. In this nuanced and ground-breaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history and untapped archival sources, she explains how a relatively small city with …
Movement Without Marches
African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia
Häftad, 2010
471 kr
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Lisa Levenstein reframes highly charged debates over the origins of chronic African American poverty and the social policies and political struggles that led to the postwar urban crisis. A Movement Without Marches follows poor black women as they traveled from some of Philadelphias most …
North of the Color Line
Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
Häftad, 2010
458 kr
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North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black railway workers and their union, the Order of Sleeping Car …
African American Roots of Modernism
From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
Häftad, 2011
526 kr
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The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response from African American intellectuals. The …
David Ruggles
A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
Häftad, 2012
411 kr
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David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured …
