Mississippi Black History Makers

Author : George A. Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628469769

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Mississippi Black History Makers by George A. Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight Pdf

This book of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi includes a total of 166 figures, all who have made significant contributions. Black history makers are defined herein as those who have achieved national prominence in their fields, who have made lasting contributions within the state as pioneers in their fields, or who contributed to their own communities or fields as role models. Each of those included in the book either was born in Mississippi, spent a part of their childhood there, or migrated to Mississippi and remained. History makers covered include Hiram R. Revels, the first Black US Senator; Blanche K. Bruce, the first Black US Senator to serve a six-year term; political and civil rights leaders such as Aaron Henry, Medgar Evers, and Fannie Lou Hamer; William Johnson, a free Black man from antebellum Natchez; Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T. Washington; Walter Payton, former running back for the Chicago Bears; and contributors to arts and letters such as Leontyne Price, William Grant Still, Margaret Walker Alexander, James Earl Jones, and “Bo Diddley” McDaniel, a pioneer rock-and-roll musician; as well as other notable Black Mississippians. The book is organized into ten thematic sections: politics, civil rights, business, education, performing and visual arts, journalism and literature, military, science/medicine/social work, sports, and religion. And each section is introduced by an historical overview of this field in the state of Mississippi. This book is a valuable reference work for those wishing to assess the contributions of African Americans to the history of Mississippi. Of particular significance is the fact that it is a collection which brings attention to lesser-known figures as well as those of considerable renown.

Author : George A. Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 160473390X

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Mississippi Black History Makers by George A. Sewell,Margaret L. Dwight Pdf

A well-researched collection of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780965480710

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Lessons of Black History Makers 'N' Action - The Dared...The Driven by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julius Eric Thompson
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0761819223

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Black Life in Mississippi by Julius Eric Thompson Pdf

Black Life in Mississippi is a collection of essays which explore the underexposed life and culture of black Mississippians between the 1860's and the 1980's.

Author : Earnest N. Bracey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786487394

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Fannie Lou Hamer by Earnest N. Bracey Pdf

This book explores the life of one of Mississippi's greatest civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an intrepid group which tried to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi during the 1964 Democratic National Convention. She is particularly remembered for her speech before the Credentials Committee, seeking to end all-white representation of her home state. Hamer fought her entire life to expand freedom and basic rights to African Americans in the United States.

Author : Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496216793

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The Allure of Blackness Among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 by Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly Pdf

"In The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916, Ingrid Dineen-Wimberly examines generations of mixed-race African Americans after the Civil War and into the Progressive Era, skillfully tracking the rise of a leadership class in Black America made up largely of individuals who had complex racial ancestries, many of whom therefore enjoyed racial options to identity as either Black or White. Although these people might have chosen to pass as White to avoid the racial violence and exclusion associated with the dominant racial ideology of the time, they instead chose to identify as Black Americans, a decision that provided upward mobility in social, political, and economic terms. Dineen-Wimberly highlights African American economic and political leaders and educators such as P. B. S. Pinchback, Theophile T. Allain, Booker T. Washington, and Frederick Douglass as well as women such as Josephine B. Willson Bruce and E. Azalia Hackley who were prominent clubwomen, lecturers, educators, and settlement house founders. In their quest for leadership within the African American community, these leaders drew on the concept of Blackness as a source of opportunities and power to transform their communities in the long struggle for Black equality. The Allure of Blackness among Mixed-Race Americans, 1862-1916 confounds much of the conventional wisdom about racially complicated people and details the manner in which they chose their racial identity and ultimately overturns the "passing" trope that has dominated so much Americanist scholarship and social thought about the relationship between race and social and political transformation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--

Author : Dorothy Overstreet Pratt
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496815491

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Sowing the Wind by Dorothy Overstreet Pratt Pdf

In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path for the state for decades to come. The primary purpose of the convention was to disfranchise African American voters as well as some poor whites. The result was a document that transformed the state for the next century. In Sowing the Wind, Dorothy Overstreet Pratt traces the decision to call that convention, examines the delegates" decisions, and analyzes the impact of their new constitution. Pratt argues the constitution produced a new social structure, which pivoted the state's culture from a class-based system to one centered upon race. Though state leaders had not anticipated this change, they were savvy in their manipulation of the issues. The new constitution effectively filled the goal of disfranchisement. Moreover, unlike the constitutions of many other southern states, it held up against attack for over seventy years. It also hindered the state socially and economically well into the twentieth century.

Author : Derek R. King
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483491363

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The Life and Times of Clyde Kennard by Derek R. King Pdf

In 1955, Clyde Kennard, a decorated army veteran, was forced to cut short the final year of his studies at the University of Chicago and return home to Mississippi due to family circumstances, where Kennard made the decision to complete his education. Yet still on the eve of the civil rights movement in America, Kennard's decision would be one of the first serious attempts to integrate any public school at the college level in the state. The Life and Times of Clyde Kennard tells the true story of Kennard's efforts to complete his further education at Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) against the backdrop of the institutionalized social order of the times and the prevailing winds of change attempting to blow that social order away. As Meredith's admission to "Ole Miss" became more widely known at the time, Kennard became the forgotten man. Author Derek R. King shares his extensive research into Kennard's life, and touches on key events that shaped those times.

Author : Julius E. Thompson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476604251

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Lynchings in Mississippi by Julius E. Thompson Pdf

Lynching occurred more in Mississippi than in any other state. During the 100 years after the Civil War, almost one in every ten lynchings in the United States took place in Mississippi. As in other Southern states, these brutal murders were carried out primarily by white mobs against black victims. The complicity of communities and courts ensured that few of the more than 500 lynchings in Mississippi resulted in criminal convictions. This book studies lynching in Mississippi from the Civil War through the civil rights movement. It examines how the crime unfolded in the state and assesses the large number of deaths, the reasons, the distribution by counties, cities and rural locations, and public responses to these crimes. The final chapter covers lynching’s legacy in the decades since 1965; an appendix offers a chronology.

Author : Thomas J. Ward
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781557289360

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Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South by Thomas J. Ward Pdf

Drawing on a variety of sources from oral histories to the records of professional organizations, Thomas J. Ward, Jr. examines the development of the African American medical profession in the South. Illuminating the contradictions of race and class, this research provides valuable new insight into class divisions within African American communities in the era of segregation.

Author : Charles A. Simmons
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786426072

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The African American Press by Charles A. Simmons Pdf

This work examines both predominately black newspapers in general and four in particular--the Chicago Defender, the Pittsburgh Courier, the Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City), and the Jackson (Mississippi) Advocate--and their coverage of national events. The beginnings of the black press are detailed, focusing on how they reported the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Their coverage of the migration of blacks to the industrial north in the early twentieth century and World War I are next examined, followed by the black press response to World War II and the civil rights movement. The survival techniques used by the editors, how some editors reacted when faced with threats of physical harm, and how the individual editorial policies affected the different newspapers are fully explored. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Richard D. deShazo
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496817716

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The Racial Divide in American Medicine by Richard D. deShazo Pdf

The Racial Divide in American Medicine documents the struggle for equity in health and health care by African Americans in Mississippi and the United States and the connections between what happened there and the national search for social justice in health care. Dr. Richard D. deShazo and the contributors to the volume trace the dark journey from a system of slave hospitals in the state, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, to the present day. They substantiate that current health disparities are directly linked to America's history of separation, neglect, struggle, and disparities. Contributors reveal details of individual physicians' journeys for recognition both as African Americans and as professionals in Mississippi. Despite discrimination by their white colleagues and threats of violence, a small but fearless group of African American physicians fought for desegregation of American medicine and society. For example, T. R. M. Howard, MD, in the all-black city of Mound Bayou led a private investigation of the Emmett Till murder that helped trigger the civil rights movement. Later, other black physicians risked their lives and practices to provide care for white civil rights workers during the civil rights movement. DeShazo has assembled an accurate account of the lives and experiences of black physicians in Mississippi, one that gives full credit to the actions of these pioneers. DeShazo's introduction and the essays address ongoing isolation and distrust among black and white colleagues. This book will stimulate dialogue, apology, and reconciliation, with the ultimate goal of improving disparities in health and health care and addressing long-standing injustices in our country.

Author : David T. Beito,Linda Royster Beito
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252034206

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Black Maverick by David T. Beito,Linda Royster Beito Pdf

The long-awaited biography of a colorful and enterprising civil rights leader

Author : Minion K. C. Morrison
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0887065155

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Black Political Mobilization, Leadership, Power and Mass Behavior by Minion K. C. Morrison Pdf

Black Political Mobilization accounts for the political success of black Americans in the South. Minion Morrison returns to Mississippi, the center of much of the political activism of the 1960s, to analyze the remarkable improvement in black electoral participation in the years following passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Mississippi's substantial black population has experienced marked electoral success despite a history of strict racial exclusion. The dramatic and widespread nature of mobilization there makes it one of the most illustrative case studies for exploring this period of political change in America. Mississippi represents a broader phenomenon of political change that sustains a new leadership class in the Southern region. Three rural Mississippi towns serve as the focal point for the study. They each have a population of under 2,000, have overwhelming Afro-American voting majorities, are poor and largely agricultural, have been affected by the civil rights movement of the '60s, and have elected a black mayor since 1973. The towns are prime examples of the character and process of minority electoral politics and mobilization in the rural South: A new class of black leaders is nurtured and installed in office in an environment where a newly and highly mobilized constituency takes advantage of its majority status in the electorate. This book combines good theory with lively interviews and rich case histories to highlight an essentially new variety of participatory democracy in American politics and government.

Author : Karen Juanita Carrillo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216042990

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African American History Day by Day by Karen Juanita Carrillo Pdf

The proof of any group's importance to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation of the impact of African Americans on life in the United States. One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history is to look at it as a continuum. African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides just such an opportunity. Organized in the form of a calendar, this book allows readers to see the dates of famous births, deaths, and events that have affected the lives of African Americans and, by extension, of America as a whole. Each day features an entry with information about an important event that occurred on that date. Background on the highlighted event is provided, along with a link to at least one primary source document and references to books and websites that can provide more information. While there are other calendars of African American history, this one is set apart by its level of academic detail. It is not only a calendar, but also an easy-to-use reference and learning tool.