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In the Lion's Mouth
Black Populism in the New South, 1886-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Following the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877, African Americans organized a movement--distinct from the white Populist movement--in the South and parts of the Midwest for economic and political reform: Black Populism. Between 1886 and 1898, tens of thousands of black farmers, sharecroppers, and...
Grassroots Garveyism
The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
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 followers...
Freedom's Ballot
African American Political Struggles in Chicago from Abolition to the Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city’s first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest’s victory was astonishing. It...
From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2004
Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 decision declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, highlighted both the possibilities and the limitations of American democracy. This collection of sixteen original essays by historians and...
The House Servant's Directory
An African American Butler's 1827 Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
"In order to get through your work in proper time, you should make it your chief study to rise early in the morning; for an hour before the family rises is worth more to you than two after they are up."
So begins Robert Roberts' The House Servant's Directory, first published in 1827 and...
Upbuilding Black Durham
Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
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 Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle...
Art for Equality
The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended...
Way Up North in Louisville
African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010
Luther Adams demonstrates that in the wake of World War II, when roughly half the black population left the South seeking greater opportunity and freedom in the North and West, the same desire often anchored African Americans to the South. Way Up North in Louisville explores the forces that led blacks...
Remaking Respectability
African American Women in Interwar Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have...
Backwater Blues
The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. Mizelle...
How Do Hurricane Katrina's Winds Blow? Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
An outstanding resource for students of African American history, government policy, sociology, and human rights, as well as readers interested in socioeconomics in the United States today, this book examines why the divisions between the areas heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina and those left unscathed...
by Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Molefi Kete Asante, Daryl B. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
Although traditional academic circles rarely celebrate the work of African or African American thinkers because performers and political figures were more acceptable to narrating histories, this work projects the ideas of several writers with the confidence that Africology, the Afrocentric study of...
Long Past Slavery
Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. These narratives are now widely used as a source to understand the lived experience of those who made the transition from slavery to freedom. But in this examination...
Africa's Armies
From Honor To Infamy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Africa's Armies traces the military history of sub-Saharan Africa from the pre-colonial era to the present. Robert Edgerton begins this sweeping chronicle by describing the role of African armies in pre-colonial times, when armed forces or militias were essential to the maintenance and prosperity...