Head of the Class

Head of the Class
Author: Gabrielle S. Morris
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

They tell about the teachers who influenced their thinking and reveal their intense determination to get an education and advance themselves professionally.

C.U. News

C.U. News
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1992
Genre:
ISBN:

Blood Matters

Blood Matters
Author: Erik March Zissu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317795105

First Published in 2002. This study explores how the five tribes of Oklahoma - Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles - strove to achieve political unity within their tribes during the first decades of the 20th century by forging a new sense of peoplehood around the idea of blood.

Through the Back Door

Through the Back Door
Author: Katherine Vande Brake
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780881461503

Armed with literacies of difference stemming from both their natures and their social situations, this book shows how Melungeons are using literacy practices to embrace the difference that they cannot escape.

Keeping the Faith

Keeping the Faith
Author: Abel A. Bartley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2000-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0313030472

An examination of the political and economic power of a large African American community in a segregated southern city; this study attacks the myth that blacks were passive victims of the southern Jim Crow system and reveals instead that in Jacksonville, Florida, blacks used political and economic pressure to improve their situation and force politicians to make moderate adjustments in the Jim Crow system. Bartley tells the compelling story of how African Americans first gained, then lost, then regained political representation in Jacksonville. Between the end of the Civil War and the consolidation of city and county government in 1967, the political struggle was buffeted by the ongoing effort to build an economically viable African American economy in the virulently racist South. It was the institutional complexity of the African American community that ultimately made the protest efforts viable. Black leaders relied on the institutions created during Reconstruction to buttress their social agitation. Black churches, schools, fraternal organizations, and businesses underpinned the civil rights activities of community leaders by supplying the people and the evidence of abuse that inflamed the passions of ordinary people. The sixty-year struggle to break down the door blocking political power serves as an intriguing backdrop to community development efforts. Jacksonville's African American community never accepted their second-class status. From the beginning of their subjugation, they fought to remedy the situation by continuing to vote and run for offices while they developed their economic and social institutions.