Civil Rights And Politics At Hampton Institute

Author : Hoda M. Zaki
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252031106

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Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute by Hoda M. Zaki Pdf

Civil Rights and Politics at Hampton Institute presents the story of how one of the preeminent--and historically conservative--private institutions of black higher education came to play an important part in the struggle for full racial equality. Hoda Zaki traces Hampton Institute's progressive impact to its first black and alumnus president, Alonzo G. Moron, who used his office to launch a powerful and sustained attack against segregation. A brilliant man, who was uncompromising in his beliefs about creating a more inclusive democracy, Moron struggled against conservative forces both outside of and within his own institution before his ouster by Hampton's predominantly white governing board in 1959--just a year before the Greensboro sit-ins signaled the death knell for the segregationist era in which his institution had prospered. Hoda Zaki details the significance of Moron's complicated career through discussions of his theories of citizenship education, his work in promoting equal rights as a mission for the college, and the political philosophy (as evidenced in his speeches) that he shared with other civil rights leaders of the era.

Author : David W. Del Testa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135975661

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Government Leaders, Military Rulers and Political Activists by David W. Del Testa Pdf

In each volume, an introductory essay outlines of history of the disciplines under discussion, and describes how changes and innovations in these disciplines have affected our lives. The biographies that follow are organized in an A-Z format: each biography is divided into a "life" section describing the individual's life and influences and a "legacy" section summarizing the impact of that individual's work throughout history. These biographies cover a diverse group of men and women from around the globe and throughout history. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mao Tse-tung and Genghis Khan are among the 200 well-known historical figures included in this volume. Examples of other lesser-known, yet important, individuals covered in this work are: Gustavas Adolphus, Swedish empire creator; Hatshepsut, queen of ancient Egyptian dynasty; and Jean Jaurès, French socialist leader and pacifist. Each synopsis provides information on each individual's enduring impact on the common understanding of fundamental themes of human existence.

Author : J. Douglas Smith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862261

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Managing White Supremacy by J. Douglas Smith Pdf

Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Smith draws on official records, private correspondence, and letters to newspapers from otherwise anonymous Virginians to capture a wide and varied range of black and white voices. African Americans emerge as central characters in the narrative, as Smith chronicles their efforts to obtain access to public schools and libraries, protection under the law, and the equitable distribution of municipal resources. This acceleration of black resistance to white supremacy in the years before World War II precipitated a crisis of confidence among white Virginians, who, despite their overwhelming electoral dominance, felt increasingly insecure about their ability to manage the color line on their own terms. Exploring the everyday power struggles that accompanied the erosion of white authority in the political, economic, and educational arenas, Smith uncovers the seeds of white Virginians' resistance to civil rights activism in the second half of the twentieth century.

Author : Scott H. Ainsworth Ph.D.,Brian M. Harward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1005 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216129424

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Political Groups, Parties, and Organizations That Shaped America [3 volumes] by Scott H. Ainsworth Ph.D.,Brian M. Harward Pdf

This three-volume set explores the multiple roles that parties and interest groups have played in American politics from the nation's beginnings to the present. This set serves as an essential resource for analyzing the emergence and impact of parties and interest groups in the American political system and for understanding the systematic and structural bases for interest group and party behavior. Volume One opens with an introduction by the editors that provides a general overview of the eras and identifies important themes and events, laying a foundation on which the subsequent essays and primary documents for each interest group or political party builds. Narrative essays focus on how specific parties or interest groups have shaped or reflect a particular set of events or general themes in each of the eras in American political history. Topical entries reflect key themes developed throughout the volumes. Entries range from important founding groups and parties to contemporary political action committees and policy advocacy groups. The set also includes primary source documents (e.g., letters, platform documents, court decisions, flyers, etc.) that reveal important dimensions of the corresponding group's political influence.

Author : Marcus D. Pohlmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415942861

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African American Political Thought: Confrontation vs. compromise, from 1945 to the present by Marcus D. Pohlmann Pdf

Providing comprehensive coverage of major and minor figures in the history of African American Politics, from Colonial America to the present, this collection includes a vast array of original articles, speeches, statements and documents.

Author : Jennifer L. Hayes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-11
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9783030485955

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Teaching African American Literature Through Experiential Praxis by Jennifer L. Hayes Pdf

This book focuses on teaching African American literature through experiential praxis. Specifically, the book presents several canonical African American literature authors in a study abroad context. The book chapters consider the historical implications of travel within the African American literature tradition including slave narratives, migration narratives, and expatriate narratives. The book foregrounds this tradition and includes activities, rhetorical prompts, and thematic discussion that support instruction.

Author : Jakobi Williams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469608167

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From the Bullet to the Ballot by Jakobi Williams Pdf

In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the city's civil rights movement. Williams focuses on the life and violent death of Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader who served as president of the NAACP Youth Council and continued to pursue a civil rights agenda when he became chairman of the revolutionary Chicago-based Black Panther Party. Framing the story of Hampton and the ILBPP as a social and political history and using, for the first time, sealed secret police files in Chicago and interviews conducted with often reticent former members of the ILBPP, Williams explores how Hampton helped develop racial coalitions between the ILBPP and other local activists and organizations. Williams also recounts the history of the original Rainbow Coalition, created in response to Richard J. Daley's Democratic machine, to show how the Panthers worked to create an antiracist, anticlass coalition to fight urban renewal, political corruption, and police brutality.

Author : Mary L. Dudziak
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691152431

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Cold War Civil Rights by Mary L. Dudziak Pdf

Argues that the Cold War helped speed and facilitate such key reforms as desegregation due to international pressure and the obstacle American racism created in attaining Cold War goals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Peace
ISBN : UOM:39015081472139

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United States Institute of Peace in Brief by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813176543

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The Struggle Is Eternal by Joseph R. Fitzgerald Pdf

Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics beyond nonviolent demonstrations. Her philosophies and strategies—including her belief that black people had a right to self–defense—were adopted, often without credit, by a number of civil rights and black power leaders and activists. The Struggle Is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation explores the largely forgotten but deeply significant life of this central figure and her determination to improve the lives of black people. Using a wide range of source materials, including interviews with Richardson and her personal papers, as well as interviews with dozens of her friends, relatives, and civil rights colleagues, Joseph R. Fitzgerald presents an all-encompassing narrative. From Richardson's childhood, when her parents taught her the importance of racial pride, through the next eight decades, Fitzgerald relates a detailed and compelling story of her life. He reveals how Richardson's human rights activism extended far beyond Cambridge and how her leadership style and vision for liberation were embraced by the younger activists of the black power movement, who would carry the struggle on throughout the late 1960s and into the 1970s.

Author : M. Christopher Brown II,T. Elon Dancy II
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781786355225

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Black Colleges Across the Diaspora by M. Christopher Brown II,T. Elon Dancy II Pdf

This book examines colleges and universities across the diaspora with majority African, African-American, and other Black designated student enrolments. It engages the diversity of Black colleges and universities and explains their critical role in promoting academic excellence in higher education.

Author : Russell Brooker
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739179932

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The American Civil Rights Movement 1865–1950 by Russell Brooker Pdf

The American Civil Rights Movement 1865–1950 is a history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It synthesizes the disparate black movements, explaining consistent themes and controversies during those years. The main focus is on the black activists who led the movement and the white people who supported them. The principal theme is that African American agency propelled the progress and that whites often helped. Even whites who were not sympathetic to black demands were useful, often because it was to their advantage to act as black allies. Even white opponents could be coerced into cooperation or, at least, non-opposition. White people of good will with shallow understanding were frustrating, but they were sometimes useful. Even if they did not work for black rights, they did not work against them, and sometimes helped because they had no better options. Until now, the history of the African American movement from 1865 to 1950 has not been covered as one coherent story. There have been many histories of African Americans that have treated the subject in one chapter or part of a chapter, and several excellent books have concentrated on a specific time period, such as Reconstruction or World War II. Other books have focused on one aspect of the time, such as lynching or the nature of Jim Crow. This is the first book to synthesize the history of the movement in a coherent whole.

Author : Wendy L. Wall Assistant Professor of History Queen's University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198044031

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Inventing the "American Way" : The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement by Wendy L. Wall Assistant Professor of History Queen's University Pdf

In the wake of World War II, Americans developed an unusually deep and all-encompassing national unity, as postwar affluence and the Cold War combined to naturally produce a remarkable level of agreement about the nation's core values. Or so the story has long been told. Inventing the "American Way" challenges this vision of inevitable consensus. Americans, as Wendy Wall argues in this innovative book, were united, not so much by identical beliefs, as by a shared conviction that a distinctive "American Way" existed and that the affirmation of such common ground was essential to the future of the nation. Moreover, the roots of consensus politics lie not in the Cold War era, but in the turbulent decade that preceded U.S. entry into World War II. The social and economic chaos of the Depression years alarmed a diverse array of groups, as did the rise of two "alien" ideologies: fascism and communism. In this context, Americans of divergent backgrounds and beliefs seized on the notion of a unifying "American Way" and sought to convince their fellow citizens of its merits. Wall traces the competing efforts of business groups, politicians, leftist intellectuals, interfaith proponents, civil rights activists, and many others over nearly three decades to shape public understandings of the "American Way." Along the way, she explores the politics behind cultural productions ranging from The Adventures of Superman to the Freedom Train that circled the nation in the late 1940s. She highlights the intense debate that erupted over the term "democracy" after World War II, and identifies the origins of phrases such as "free enterprise" and the "Judeo-Christian tradition" that remain central to American political life. By uncovering the culture wars of the mid-twentieth century, this book sheds new light on a period that proved pivotal for American national identity and that remains the unspoken backdrop for debates over multiculturalism, national unity, and public values today.

Author : Kentucky Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Kentucky
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132650768

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The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society by Kentucky Historical Society Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : PSU:000066743095

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The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and Its Continuing Importance by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Pdf