African American Connecticut

Author : Elizabeth J. Normen
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780819574008

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African American Connecticut Explored by Elizabeth J. Normen Pdf

Winner of the Connecticut League of Historic Organization Award of Merit (2015) The numerous essays by many of the state’s leading historians in African American Connecticut Explored document an array of subjects beginning from the earliest years of the state’s colonization around 1630 and continuing well into the 20th century. The voice of Connecticut’s African Americans rings clear through topics such as the Black Governors of Connecticut, nationally prominent black abolitionists like the reverends Amos Beman and James Pennington, the African American community’s response to the Amistad trial, the letters of Joseph O. Cross of the 29th Regiment of Colored Volunteers in the Civil War, and the Civil Rights work of baseball great Jackie Robinson (a twenty-year resident of Stamford), to name a few. Insightful introductions to each section explore broader issues faced by the state’s African American residents as they struggled for full rights as citizens. This book represents the collaborative effort of Connecticut Explored and the Amistad Center for Art & Culture, with support from the State Historic Preservation Office and Connecticut’s Freedom Trail. It will be a valuable guide for anyone interested in this fascinating area of Connecticut’s history. Contributors include Billie M. Anthony, Christopher Baker, Whitney Bayers, Barbara Beeching, Andra Chantim, Stacey K. Close, Jessica Colebrook, Christopher Collier, Hildegard Cummings, Barbara Donahue, Mary M. Donohue, Nancy Finlay, Jessica A. Gresko, Katherine J. Harris, Charles (Ben) Hawley, Peter Hinks, Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Eileen Hurst, Dawn Byron Hutchins, Carolyn B. Ivanoff, Joan Jacobs, Mark H. Jones, Joel Lang, Melonae’ McLean, Wm. Frank Mitchell, Hilary Moss, Cora Murray, Elizabeth J. Normen, Elisabeth Petry, Cynthia Reik, Ann Y. Smith, John Wood Sweet, Charles A. Teale Sr., Barbara M. Tucker, Tamara Verrett, Liz Warner, David O. White, and Yohuru Williams. Ebook Edition Note: One illustration has been redacted.

Author : Frank Andrews Stone
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781425175788

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African American Connecticut by Frank Andrews Stone Pdf

Three hundred years of black affairs in Connecticut are examined in this book. It explains and discusses the changing racial demographics, evolving race relations and civil rights, as well as current issues and possibilities.

Author : Kathleen A. Hunter,Mary Pat Knowlton,Patrick J. Smith,Connecticut. State Department of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : OCLC:47087045

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African Americans in Connecticut by Kathleen A. Hunter,Mary Pat Knowlton,Patrick J. Smith,Connecticut. State Department of Education Pdf

Author : Theresa Vara-Dannen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739188637

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The African-American Experience in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut by Theresa Vara-Dannen Pdf

The African-American Experience in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut examines and analyzes the African-American experience in Connecticut as it was through primary sources. Theresa Vara-Dannen analyzes the language of real nineteenth-century Americans expressing the complexity of their thoughts and feelings about the racial issues of their times in a small state with very small communities of people of color. This book highlights the attitudes of ordinary people whose voices emerged, sometimes heroically, through their daily newspapers. The meshing of these voices regarding their race-related experiences provides a nuanced account of a long-gone past, but also gives us an understanding of twenty-first-century Connecticut, which leads the nation in the educational and economic gap between urban and nonurban citizens and has one of the most segregated school systems and residential patterns in the nation.

Author : James M. Rose,Barbara W. Brown
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : African American families
ISBN : 0806352140

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Tapestry, a Living History of the Black Family in Southeastern Connecticut by James M. Rose,Barbara W. Brown Pdf

"The first half of Tapestry consists of a historical overview of African Americans in southeastern Connecticut from 1680 to 1865. The authors focus on the arrival of blacks in Connecticut, the African-American family, and the role played by African Americans in the Revolutionary and Civil wars. Much of the action takes place in the towns of Groton, East Haddam, New London, Chatham, and Hebron. In the second part of the volume, Dr. Rose and Mrs. Brown produce, as illustrations, genealogical sketches of the following African-American families: Beman, Boham, Bush, Freeman, Hallan, Hyde, Jacklin, Jackson, Lathrop, Magira, Mason, Moody, Peters, Quash, Rogers, and Wright. While readers will discover information in a number of these genealogies that is repeated in Brown and Rose's Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650-1900, researchers should check the accounts in Tapestry for embellishments"--Publisher website (December 2008).

Author : Andrew W. Kahrl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300215144

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Free the Beaches by Andrew W. Kahrl Pdf

The story of our separate and unequal America in the making, and one man's fight against it During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one‑time presidential candidate Ned Coll of Connecticut, a state that permitted public access to a mere seven miles of its 253‑mile shoreline. Nearly all of the state's coast was held privately, for the most part by white, wealthy residents. This book is the first to tell the story of the controversial protester who gathered a band of determined African American mothers and children and challenged the racist, exclusionary tactics of homeowners in a state synonymous with liberalism. Coll's legacy of remarkable successes--and failures--illuminates how our nation's fragile coasts have not only become more exclusive in subsequent decades but also have suffered greater environmental destruction and erosion as a result of that private ownership.

Author : Barbara W. Brown,James M. Rose
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035980015

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Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650-1900 by Barbara W. Brown,James M. Rose Pdf

Author : Barbara J. Beeching
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438461656

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Hopes and Expectations by Barbara J. Beeching Pdf

Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s. Based on a treasure trove of more than two hundred personal letters written in the 1860s, Hopes and Expectations tells the story of three young African Americans in the North. Living on Maryland’s eastern shore, schoolteacher Rebecca Primus sent “home weeklies” to her parents in Hartford and also corresponded with friend Addie Brown, a domestic worker back home. Addie wrote voluminously to Rebecca, lamenting their separation and describing her struggle to achieve a semblance of security and stability. Around the same time, Rebecca’s brother, Nelson, began writing home about his new life in Boston, as he set out to make a name and a career for himself as an artist. The letters describe their daily lives and touch on race, class, gender, religion, and politics, offering rare entry into individual black lives at that time. Through extensive archival research, Barbara J. Beeching also shows how the story of the Primus family intersects with changes over time in Hartford’s black community and the country. Newspapers and census tracts, as well as probate, land, court, and vital records help her trace an arc of local black fortunes between 1830 and 1880. Seeking full equality, blacks sought refinement and respectability through home ownership, literacy, and social gains. One of the many paradoxes Beeching uncovers is that just as the Civil War was tearing the nation apart, a recognizable black middle class was emerging in Hartford. It is a story of individuals, family, and community, of expectation and disappointment, loss and endurance, change and continuity. “This is a powerful book and a truly important story. Beeching provides a richly detailed survey of life in Connecticut, the political and racial climates at various historical moments, and the web of intraracial and interracial networks that informed the Primus family experiences. Multifaceted and thoroughly absorbing, Hopes and Expectations will reintroduce people to a New England that they thought they knew.” — Lois Brown, author of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green Pdf

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.

Author : Barbara W. Brown,James M. Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0960774459

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Black Roots in Southeastern Connecticut, 1650-1900 by Barbara W. Brown,James M. Rose Pdf

Author : Janice P. Cunningham,Elizabeth Ann Warner,Mary M. Donohue,Connecticut Historical Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African American neighborhoods
ISBN : OCLC:52137942

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Experiment in Community by Janice P. Cunningham,Elizabeth Ann Warner,Mary M. Donohue,Connecticut Historical Commission Pdf

Author : Bernard Christian Steiner
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1018726497

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History of Slavery in Connecticut; by Bernard Christian Steiner Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David Levinson,Rachel Fletcher,Frances Jones-Sneed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1933782080

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African American Heritage in the Upper Housatonic Valley by David Levinson,Rachel Fletcher,Frances Jones-Sneed Pdf

Author : Elizabeth J. Normen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578550628

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Venture Smith's Colonial Connecticut by Elizabeth J. Normen Pdf

In this true story, first published in 1798, Venture Smith tells readers about his capture as a boy in West Africa, survival of the Middle Passage, and dramatic quest to free himself from slavery to become a successful farmer, fisherman, and trader in the American Revolutionary era.

Author : Rachel E. Black
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780252052934

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Cheffes de Cuisine by Rachel E. Black Pdf

Though women enter France’s culinary professions at higher rates than ever, men still receive the lion’s share of the major awards and Michelin stars. Rachel E. Black looks at the experiences of women in Lyon to examine issues of gender inequality in France’s culinary industry. Known for its female-led kitchens, Lyon provides a unique setting for understanding the gender divide, as Lyonnais women have played a major role in maintaining the city’s culinary heritage and its status as a center for innovation. Voices from history combine with present-day interviews and participant observation to reveal the strategies women use to navigate male-dominated workplaces or, in many cases, avoid men in kitchens altogether. Black also charts how constraints imposed by French culture minimize the impact of #MeToo and other reform-minded movements. Evocative and original, Cheffes de Cuisine celebrates the successes of women inside the professional French kitchen and reveals the obstacles women face in the culinary industry and other male-dominated professions.