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Author | : Lynn Maria Hudson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : African American businesspeople |
ISBN | : 9780252027710 |
"Pleasant's legacy is steeped in scandal and lore. Was she a voodoo queen who traded in sexual secrets? A madam? A murderer? In The Making of "Mammy Pleasant," Lynn M. Hudson examines the folklore of this remarkable woman's real and imagined powers.
Author | : Michelle Cliff |
Publisher | : City Lights Publishers |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780872864375 |
In 1858, two black women meet at a restaurant and begin to plot a revolution. Mary Ellen Pleasant owns a string of hotels in San Francisco that secretly double as havens for runaway slaves. Her comrade, Annie, is a young Jamaican who has given up her...
Author | : Lynn M. Hudson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252052226 |
African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, "The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled." From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State—in contrast to its reputation for tolerance—perfected many methods of controlling people of color. Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state's color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan's campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists' preoccupation with gender and sexuality.
Author | : Susheel Bibbs |
Publisher | : M.E.P. Publications/Dkc Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-06-01 |
Genre | : African American women |
ISBN | : 9781892516046 |
Heritage of Power is the first book to clarify the life of Mary Pleasant and to establish her importance to modern-day civil rights. Did the woman of mystery Mary Ellen Pleasant (now called The Mother of Civil Rights in California) and New Orleans' most famous Voodoo queen, Marie LaVeaux, really meet? Did Pleasant receive a "Heritage of Power" from LaVeaux, and if so, what was it, and how did it come about? Did Pleasant work with the abolitionist John Brown, and if so, what did she do? To document Mary Pleasant's civil-rights legacy, this work answers these questions, while demystifying the accomplishments of both women and employing the latest research. It establishes that Pleasant studied social leveraging techniques with LaVeaux to become The Mother of Civil Rights in California and supports Mary Pleasant's claim that she "was a friend of" John Brown.
Author | : Emily Jenkins |
Publisher | : Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375987711 |
A New York Times Best Illustrated Book From highly acclaimed author Jenkins and Caldecott Medal–winning illustrator Blackall comes a fascinating picture book in which four families, in four different cities, over four centuries, make the same delicious dessert: blackberry fool. This richly detailed book ingeniously shows how food, technology, and even families have changed throughout American history. In 1710, a girl and her mother in Lyme, England, prepare a blackberry fool, picking wild blackberries and beating cream from their cow with a bundle of twigs. The same dessert is prepared by an enslaved girl and her mother in 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina; by a mother and daughter in 1910 in Boston; and finally by a boy and his father in present-day San Diego. Kids and parents alike will delight in discovering the differences in daily life over the course of four centuries. Includes a recipe for blackberry fool and notes from the author and illustrator about their research.
Author | : Edith Sparks |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807830615 |
Late nineteenth-century San Francisco was an ethnically diverse but male-dominated society bustling from a rowdy gold rush, recovery from the earthquake, and explosive economic growth. Within this booming marketplace, some women stepped beyond their roles
Author | : Khaled Hosseini |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-09-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 074758589X |
A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love
Author | : Shirley Ann Wilson Moore |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2016-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806156856 |
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, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains. Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.
Author | : John Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1855 |
Genre | : Slavery |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Brendan O'Carroll |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 1999-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101153385 |
"Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammy is Agnes Browne—a widow struggling to raise seven children in a North Dublin neighborhood in the 1960s. Popular Irish comedian Brendan O'Carroll chronicles the comic misadventures of this large and lively family with raw humor and great affection. Forced to be mother, father, and referee to her battling clan, the ever-resourceful Agnes Browne occasionally finds a spare moment to trade gossip and quips with her best pal Marion Monks (alias "The Kaiser") and even finds herself pursued by the amorous Frenchman who runs the local pizza parlor. Like the novels of Roddy Doyle, The Mammy features pitch-perfect dialogue, lightning wit, and a host of colorful characters. Earthy and exuberant, the novel brilliantly captures the brash energy and cheerful irreverence of working-class Irish life. Now a major motion picture starring Anjelica Huston