Exodusters
Author | : Nell Irvin Painter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393009514 |
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
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Author | : Nell Irvin Painter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780393009514 |
The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
Author | : Bryan M. Jack |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2008-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826266169 |
In the aftermath of the Civil War, thousands of former slaves made their way from the South to the Kansas plains. Called “Exodusters,” they were searching for their own promised land. Bryan Jack now tells the story of this American exodus as it played out in St. Louis, a key stop in the journey west. Many of the Exodusters landed on the St. Louis levee destitute, appearing more as refugees than as homesteaders, and city officials refused aid for fear of encouraging more migrants. To the stranded Exodusters, St. Louis became a barrier as formidable as the Red Sea, and Jack tells how the city’s African American community organized relief in response to this crisis and provided the migrants with funds to continue their journey. The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters tells of former slaves such as George Rogers and Jacob Stevens, who fled violence and intimidation in Louisiana and Mississippi. It documents the efforts of individuals in St. Louis, such as Charlton Tandy, Moses Dickson, and Rev. John Turner, who reached out to help them. But it also shows that black aid to the Exodusters was more than charity. Jack argues that community support was a form of collective resistance to white supremacy and segregation as well as a statement for freedom and self-direction—reflecting an understanding that if the Exodusters’ right to freedom of movement was limited, so would be the rights of all African Americans. He also discusses divisions within the African American community and among its leaders regarding the nature of aid and even whether it should be provided. In telling of the community’s efforts—a commitment to civil rights that had started well before the Civil War—Jack provides a more complete picture of St. Louis as a city, of Missouri as a state, and of African American life in an era of dramatic change. Blending African American, southern, western, and labor history, The St. Louis African American Community and the Exodusters offers an important new lens for exploring the complex racial relationships that existed within post-Reconstruction America.
Author | : Nell Irvin Painter |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992-05-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 039335251X |
"The first full-length scholarly study of this migration and of the forces that produced it."—David H. Donald, New York Times Book Review The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--
Author | : A. LaFaye |
Publisher | : Albert Whitman & Company |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2019-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0807525367 |
2020 Kansas Notable Book STARRED REVIEW! "The historic town of Nicodemus, Kansas, springs to life through expressive artwork done in softly fluid lines and hues, conveying all of the hope and joy of the movement."—Foreword Review A family leaves behind sharecropping to settle the frontier and find a new kind of freedom. When Dede sees a notice offering land to black people in Kansas, her family decides to give up their life of sharecropping to become homesteading pioneers in the Midwest. Inspired by the true story of Nicodemus, Kansas, a town founded in the late 1870s by Exodusters—former slaves leaving the Jim Crow South in search of a new beginning—this fictional story follows Dede and her parents as they set out to stake and secure a claim, finally allowing them to have a home to call their own.
Author | : Jennie A. Chinn |
Publisher | : Gibbs Smith |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Kansas |
ISBN | : 1423624130 |
Author | : Carmen Gillespie |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 1438108575 |
Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, is perhaps the most important living American author. This work examines Morrison's life and writing, featuring critical analyses of her work and themes, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences.
Author | : Gordon Parks |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780873517690 |
"Gordon Parks's spectacular rise from poverty, personal hardships, and outright racism is astounding and inspiring." --from the foreword by Wing Young Huie
Author | : Gordon Morris Bakken |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135694265 |
First Published in 2001. This anthology of western history articles emphasizes the New Western History that emerged in the 1980s and adds to it a heavy dose of legal history, a field frequently ignored or misunderstood by the New Western historians. From first contact, American Indians knew that Europeans did not understand the gendered nature of America. Confusion regarding the role of women within tribes and bands continued from first contact well into the late nineteenth century. The journal articles that follow give readers a true sense of the gendered West. Racial and ethnic heritage played a role in female experience whether Hispanic, Japanese or Irish. Women's work was part western history, but women did not confine themselves to plow handles or brothels. Women were very much a part of most occupations or in the process of breaking down barriers of access. They worked in the fields for wages as well as for family welfare and prosperity. Women demanded access to the professions whether teaching or law, accounting or medicine. The process of eliminating barriers varied in time and space, but the struggle was constant. Yet the story of women in polygamous Utah or Idaho was different and an integral part of the fabric of western history. Because of their beliefs and practices these women suffered at the hands of the federal government and persevered.
Author | : Scott K. Scheuerell |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2024-10-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1475872240 |
Students as Historians: Using Technology to Examine Local History Beyond the Classroom makes a case for using technology to further the research of local history. Part 1 of the book explores the history of Black people in communities across the nation while Part 2 uses census reports, Google Earth, and other materials to investigate. One example includes Western Missouri on the eve of the Civil War. Part 3 involves design-based research in a social studies classroom where students investigated the history of Mobile, AL during the Civil Rights movement using technology. Throughout the book, the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is emphasized and implemented.