Encyclopedia Of African American Civil Rights
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Author | : Paul Finkelman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Alphabetically-arranged entries from O to T that explores significant events, major persons, organizations, and political and social movements in African-American history from 1896 to the twenty-first-century.
Author | : Gerald L. Smith |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 1467 |
Release | : 2015-08-28 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0813160677 |
The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth. The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in an array of notable figures, such as writers William Wells Brown and bell hooks, reformers Bessie Lucas Allen and Shelby Lanier Jr., sports icons Muhammad Ali and Isaac Murphy, civil rights leaders Whitney Young Jr. and Georgia Powers, and entertainers Ernest Hogan, Helen Humes, and the Nappy Roots. Featuring entries on the individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, and institutions that have shaped the state's history since its origins, the volume also includes topical essays on the civil rights movement, Eastern Kentucky coalfields, business, education, and women. For researchers, students, and all who cherish local history, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference that highlights the diversity of the state's culture and history.
Author | : Gerald David Jaynes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
An encyclopedic reference of African American history and culture.
Author | : Brian D. Behnken |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820349176 |
Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, this book pushes the timeframe for the study of interactions between blacks and a variety of Latino/a groups beyond the standard chronology of the civil rights era. As such, the book merges a host of community histories--each with their own distinct historical experiences and activisms--to explore group dynamics, differing strategies and activist moments, and the broader quests of these communities for rights and social justice. The collection is framed around the concept of "activism," which most fully encompasses the relationships that blacks and Latinos have enjoyed throughout the twentieth century. Wide ranging and pioneering, Civil Rights and Beyond explores black and Latino/a activism from California to Florida, Chicago to Bakersfield--and a host of other communities and cities--to demonstrate the complicated nature of African American-Latino/a activism in the twentieth-century United States. Contributors: Brian D. Behnken, Dan Berger, Hannah Gill, Laurie Lahey, Kevin Allen Leonard, Mark Malisa, Gordon Mantler, Alyssa Ribeiro, Oliver A. Rosales, Chanelle Nyree Rose, and Jakobi Williams
Author | : Nina Mjagkij |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1713 |
Release | : 2003-12-16 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1135581223 |
With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans for Humanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * Black Women's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science * National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists * National Dental Association * National Medical Association * Negro Railway Labor Executives Committee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association * Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist Episcopal Church * and many more.
Author | : Jessie Carney Smith |
Publisher | : Visible Ink Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1578592607 |
Spanning nearly 400 years from the early abolitionists to the present, Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights Experience profiles more than 400 people, places, and events that have shaped the history of the black struggle for freedom. Covering such mainstay figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks as well as delving into how lesser known figures contributed to and shaped the history of civil rights, Freedom Facts and Firsts chronicles the breadth and passion of an entire people's quest for freedom. Among the inspiring stories found in this comprehensive resource are: How the Housewives' League of Detroit started a nationwide movement to support black businesses, helping many to survive the Great Depression. What effect the sports journalist Samuel Harold Lacy had on Jackie Robinson's historic entrance into the major leagues. How the 9th and 10th Calvary and the 24th and 25th Infantry became known as the Buffalo Soldiers, a term of respect and endearment. How Whoopi Goldberg survived poverty, drug addiction, single parenthood, and a welfare income and used her personal history to take a satirical look at social issues. How world champion bicyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor was the first American-born black champion in any sport. How in 1890 John Mercer Langston became the first black U.S. congressman elected from his native state of Virginia. This inspiring resource offers an encouraging look at the historic struggles and triumphs of black men and women in politics, arts, music, journalism, law, social work and sports, the authors chart a full and inspiring history of African American activism!
Author | : Charles D. Lowery |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Provides over 800 entries on people and events important to the civil rights struggle, and cites court cases which show a progression of civil rights.
Author | : Juliet E. K. Walker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : African American business enterprises |
ISBN | : |
Analyzes the African American business experience from the 1600s to the present through three main types of entries: biographies, topics in black business history, and black participation in selected industries. Includes a chronology of Black business history from 1619-1999.
Author | : W. Augustus Low |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 921 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780306802218 |
An exhaustive reference work on the culture and history of Black America provides commentary and exact, factual information ranging from the colonial period to contemporary Black issues and achievements
Author | : Renee Christine Romano |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0820325384 |
The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over themovement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past twodecades. How the civil rights movement is currently being rememberedin American politics and culture - and why it matters - is the commontheme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection.Memories of the movement are being created and maintained - in waysand for purposes we sometimes only vaguely perceive - throughmemorials, art exhibits, community celebrations, and even streetnames.