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African Creeks
Estelvste and the Creek Nation
Av Gary Zellar
Inbunden, 2007
413 kr
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Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste - black people - and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference was the color of their skin.This book tells how …
Race and the War on Poverty
From Watts to East L.a.
Inbunden, 2008
413 kr
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President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to …
Dreaming with the Ancestors
Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico
Inbunden, 2010
413 kr
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Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women's roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insider's perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these …
By All Accounts
General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory
Inbunden, 2013
384 kr
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The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic heart of a small town. Merchants sold goods necessary for residents' daily survival and extended credit to many of their customers; cash-poor farmers relied on merchants for their economic well-being just as the retailers …
Black Spokane
The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest
Inbunden, 2014
355 kr
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In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase's win failed to capture the attention of historians - as had the century-long evolution of …
Aristocracy of Color
Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890
Häftad, 2014
246 kr
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In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the …
Listening to Rosita
The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955
Inbunden, 2015
355 kr
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Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by ""Momo"" Villarreal. It wasn't about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal's grandmother insisted. It was about the music - more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks …
Loren Miller
Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist
Av Amina Hassan
Inbunden, 2015
295 kr
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Loren Miller was one of the nation's most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose …
Nicodemus
Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas
Inbunden, 2016
413 kr
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Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and ""Redeemer"" governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the …
Seminole Freedmen
A History
Av Kevin Mulroy
Häftad, 2016
341 kr
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Popularly known as ""Black Seminoles,"" descendants of the Seminole freedmen of Indian Territory are a unique American cultural group. Now Kevin Mulroy examines the long history of these people to show that this label denies them their rightful distinctiveness. To correct misconceptions of the …
Uninvited Neighbors
African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990
Häftad, 2019
283 kr
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In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California's Santa Clara County - including what's now called Silicon Valley - took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial …
Sweet Freedom's Plains
African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869
Inbunden, 2016
413 kr
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The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, …
Listening to Rosita
The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955
Häftad, 2017
283 kr
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Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by ""Momo"" Villarreal. It wasn't about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal's grandmother insisted. It was about the music - more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks …
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Av Herbert G. Ruffin, Dwayne A. Mack
Häftad, 2018
375 kr
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Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West - an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom's Racial …
Freedom's Racial Frontier
African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West
Av Herbert G. Ruffin, Dwayne A. Mack
Inbunden, 2018
754 kr
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Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in the history of the African American West - an interest reflected in the remarkable range and depth of the works collected in Freedom's Racial …
Born to Serve
A History of Texas Southern University
Inbunden, 2018
355 kr
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Texas Southern University is often said to have been ""conceived in sin."" Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an ""emergency"" state-supported university for African Americans, to prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve is the first book to tell the …
Speaking American
Language Education and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Inbunden, 2019
529 kr
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When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, language learning became a touchstone in the emerging culture wars. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Los Angeles, where elected officials from both political parties had supported the legislation, and where the most disruptive …
Black Americans and the Civil Rights Movement in the West
Av Bruce A. Glasrud, Cary D. Wintz
Häftad, 2019
341 kr
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In 1927, Beatrice Cannady succeeded in removing racist language from the Oregon Constitution. During World War II, Rowena Moore fought for the right of black women to work in Omaha's meat packinghouses. In 1942, Thelma Paige used the courts to equalize the salaries of black and white schoolteachers …
Race and the Wild West
Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870-1930
Häftad, 2020
283 kr
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Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852-1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. Race and the Wild West is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new …
Speaking American
Language Education and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles
Häftad, 2020
283 kr
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When Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, language learning became a touchstone in the emerging culture wars. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Los Angeles, where elected officials from both political parties had supported the legislation, and where the most disruptive …
By All Accounts
General Stores and Community Life in Texas and Indian Territory
Häftad, 2021
254 kr
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The general store in late-nineteenth-century America was often the economic heart of a small town. Merchants sold goods necessary for residents' daily survival and extended credit to many of their customers; cash-poor farmers relied on merchants for their economic well-being just as the retailers …
Born to Serve
A History of Texas Southern University
Häftad, 2021
218 kr
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Texas Southern University is often said to have been “conceived in sin.” Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an “emergency” state-supported university for African Americans, to prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve is the first book to tell the full …
Dreaming with the Ancestors
Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico
Häftad, 2021
283 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women's roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insider's perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these …
African Creeks
Estelvste and the Creek Nation
Av Gary Zellar
Häftad, 2021
283 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste-black people-and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference was the color of their skin.This book tells how …
Black Spokane
The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest
Häftad, 2022
194 kr
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In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution of …
Sweet Freedom's Plains
African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841–1869
Häftad, 2022
254 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, …
Nicodemus
Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas
Häftad, 2022
254 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and “Redeemer” governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the plains, …
Race and the War on Poverty
From Watts to East L.a.
Häftad, 2022
254 kr
Lägg i varukorg
President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to …
Loren Miller Volume 10
Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist
Av Amina Hassan
Häftad, 2024
237 kr
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Loren Miller was one of the nation’s most prominent civil rights attorneys from the 1940s through the early 1960s and successfully fought discrimination in housing and education. Alongside Thurgood Marshall, Miller argued two landmark civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, whose …
Little Liberia Volume 18
A Dream of Black Freedom in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Av Laura Hooton
Inbunden, 2026
529 kr
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In the early twentieth century, African Americans created an agricultural community in northern Baja California, Mexico, which they called Little Liberia. As a transborder activist community, the people of Little Liberia sought to counter the forces of White supremacy in North America, primarily by …
