African Americans In Boston

Author : Robert C. Hayden
Publisher : Boston Public Library
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017523866

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African-Americans in Boston by Robert C. Hayden Pdf

A "must" introduction to significant African-American events & people in Massachusetts where so much American history began. The first slaves arrived in Boston in 1638; the first Black gave his life in the Boston Massacre. Entries are dramatic bullet-style cameos set off by more than 100 photographs. Arranged chronologically within a dozen categories--Science, Religion, Government, Creative Arts, among them--the elegantly designed paperback offers instant identification of names & invites follow up research--a catalyst "to find out more." Among the entries: a high school student wins ten dollars in gold for her essay on the "Evils of Intemperance"; a physician fights for the right to deliver babies at the city hospital; Blacks unite in protest against the film BIRTH OF A NATION; a Boston mechanic invents a diving suit & a dentist invents a golf tee. The BOSTON GLOBE calls it a book that explores the "rich heritage & legacy of leaders who lived here but had an impact upon all America--including Frederick Douglass, William DuBois, Phillis Wheatley, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." An executive of Bank of Boston, which funded the publication, calls it "a book about dreams." And the dreams came true. Available through Publisher's Sales Office--666 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116, Tele-(617)-536-5400. xt 346.

Author : George A. Levesque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351180597

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Black Boston by George A. Levesque Pdf

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black life in urban America. Black culture Levesque argues was both more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally benevolent, sometimes hostile, frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.

Author : Zebulon Vance Miletsky
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469662787

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Before Busing by Zebulon Vance Miletsky Pdf

In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the "cradle of liberty." Yet the city has long been divided over matters of race, and it was also home to a far older Black organizing tradition than many realize. A community of Black activists had fought segregated education since the origins of public schooling and racial inequality since the end of northern slavery. Before Busing tells the story of the men and women who struggled and demonstrated to make school desegregation a reality in Boston. It reveals the legal efforts and battles over tactics that played out locally and influenced the national Black freedom struggle. And the book gives credit to the Black organizers, parents, and children who fought long and hard battles for justice that have been left out of the standard narratives of the civil rights movement. What emerges is a clear picture of the long and hard-fought campaigns to break the back of Jim Crow education in the North and make Boston into a better, more democratic city—a fight that continues to this day.

Author : James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African American families
ISBN : UOM:39076002025042

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Black Bostonians by James Oliver Horton,Lois E. Horton Pdf

Updated and expanded in this revised edition to reflect twenty years of new research, when published in 1979 Black Bostonianswas the first comprehensive social history of an antebellum northern black community. The Hortons challenged the then widely held view that African Americans in the antebellum urban north were all trapped in "a culture of poverty." Exploring life in black Boston from the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, they combined quantitative and traditional historical methods to reveal the rich fabric of a thriving society, where people from all walks of life organized for mutual aid, survival, and social action, and which was a center of the antislavery movement. CONTENTS: Profile of Black Boston. Families and Households in Black Boston. Formal and Informal Organizations and Associations. The Community and the Church. Leaders and Community Activists. Segregation, Discrimination, and Community Resistance. The Integration of Abolition. The Fugitive and the Community. A Decade of Militancy.

Author : Mark Schneider
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555532969

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Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920 by Mark Schneider Pdf

Discusses how activists in Boston upheld their anti-slavery tradition and promoted an equal rights agenda during the years between 1890 and 1920, a period in which African-Americans throughout the country were being deprived of civil and political justice.

Author : Michael B. Boston
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438484631

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Blacks in Niagara Falls by Michael B. Boston Pdf

Blacks in Niagara Falls narrates and analyzes the history of Black Niagarans from the days of the Underground Railroad to the Age of Urban Renewal. Michael B. Boston details how Black Niagarans found themselves on the margins of society from the earliest days to how they came together as a community to proactively fight and struggle to obtain an equal share of society's opportunities. Boston explores how Blacks came to Niagara Falls in increasing numbers usually in search of economic opportunities, later establishing essential institutions, such as churches and community centers, which manifested and reinforced their values, and interacted with the broader community, seeking an equitable share of other society opportunities. This singular examination of a small city significantly contributes to Urban History and African American Studies scholarly research, which generally focuses on large cities. Combining primary source data with extensive interviews gathered over an eighteen-year period in which the author immersed himself in the Niagara community, Blacks in Niagara Falls offers an insightful study of how one small city community grew over its unique history.

Author : Barbara A. Yocum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : UOM:39015041783567

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Smith School House by Barbara A. Yocum Pdf

Author : George August Levesque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1315789612

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Black Boston by George August Levesque Pdf

Author : Kelvin Boston
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 039952262X

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Smart Money Moves for African-Americans by Kelvin Boston Pdf

The host of PBS’s The Color of Money presents his bestselling guide to personal wealth for African Americans. Nationally renowned financial expert Kelvin Boston offers basic money management advice tailored for African Americans. It is an inspiring, clearly written, and easy-to-use book that will show readers the smart money moves they need to make to start on the road to financial security.

Author : Mel King
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0896081052

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Chain of Change by Mel King Pdf

Chain of Change is a history of the black community in Boston from the fifties through the seventies. Mel King shows how black consciousness and power have developed through the struggles around jobs, housing, education, and politics. For the future he proposes a strategy of community controlled economic development and political representation which is relevant to any major city.

Author : Lowery Stokes Sims,Dennis Carr,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 0878468153

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Common Wealth by Lowery Stokes Sims,Dennis Carr,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pdf

The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last four hundred years. From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, they have created a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences, such as exclusion from dominant cultural institutions, and confronts questions of identity and community. This generously illustrated volume gathers works by leading figures from the nineteenth century to the present Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Gordon Parks, Wifredo Lam, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall alongside many others who deserve to be better known, including artists from the African diaspora in South America and the Caribbean. Arranged thematically and accompanied by authoritative texts that provide historical and interpretive context, this book invites readers to share in a rich outpouring of art that meets shared challenges with individual creative responses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015024909494

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Boston African American National Historic Site by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005751758

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Black Migration and Poverty, Boston, 1865-1900 by Elizabeth Hafkin Pleck Pdf

Author : Stephen Kendrick,Paul Kendrick
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807050180

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Sarah's Long Walk by Stephen Kendrick,Paul Kendrick Pdf

The never-before-told story of the African-American child who started the fight for desegregation in America's public schoolsIn 1847, on windswept Beacon Hill in Boston, a five-year-old girl named Sarah Roberts was forced to walk past five white schools to attend the poor and densely crowded black school. Incensed that his daughter had been turned away at each white school, her father, Benjamin, sued the city of Boston on her behalf. He turned to twenty-four-year-old Robert Morris, the first black attorney ever to win a jury case in America. Together with young Brahmin lawyer Charles Sumner, this legal team forged a powerful argument against school desegregation that has reverberated down through American history, in a direct legal line to Brown v. Board of Education. When the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled against Sarah Roberts, Chief Justice Shaw created the concept of "separate but equal," an idea that affected every aspect of American life until it was overturned one hundred years later by Thurgood Marshall.Today, few have heard of the Roberts case or of the three thousand free blacks in Boston who fought valiantly and successfully-long before the civil rights movement of the 1960s-to integrate schools, theaters, and railway cars; to legalize interracial marriage; and to form the first black army regiment. Now, Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick tell the inspiring story of the remarkable activist community of which Sarah and her family were a part, bringing to light the human side of this crucial struggle. Sarah's Long Walk recovers stories of black and white Boston, of Beacon Hill in the nineteenth century, and of all the concerned citizens, both white and black, who participated in the early struggles for equal rights. The result is a rich historical tapestry, a fascinating story of the courage and conviction of ordinary people who achieved extraordinary things.

Author : National Center of Afro-American Artists. Museum (Boston)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:757205756

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Afro-American Artists by National Center of Afro-American Artists. Museum (Boston) Pdf