Author : John Squibb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : African Americans
ISBN : WISC:89046642476
Roads to Plessy
John Squibb
Roads To Plessy
Roads To Plessy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Roads To Plessy book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
A Stronger Kinship
Anna-Lisa Cox
Author : Anna-Lisa Cox
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316075695
A Stronger Kinship by Anna-Lisa Cox Pdf
Starting in the 1860s, the people of Covert, Michigan, broke laws and barriers to attempt what then seemed impossible: to love one's neighbor as oneself. This is the inspiring, true story of an extraordinary town where blacks and whites lived as equals.
For Labor, Race, and Liberty
Bruce L. Mouser
Author : Bruce L. Mouser
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299249137
For Labor, Race, and Liberty by Bruce L. Mouser Pdf
More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party’s nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Orphaned as a child at the peak of the Civil War, Taylor spent several years homeless before boarding a Mississippi riverboat that dropped him in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Taken in by an African American farm family, Taylor attended a private school and eventually rose to prominence as the owner/editor of a labor newspaper and as a vocal leader in Wisconsin’s People’s Party. At a time when many African Americans felt allegiance to the Republican Party for its support of abolition, Taylor’s sympathy with the labor cause drew him first to the national Democratic Party and then to an African American party, the newly formed National Liberty Party, which in 1904 named him its presidential candidate. Bruce L. Mouser follows Taylor’s life and career in Arkansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida, giving life to a figure representing a generation of African American idealists whose initial post-slavery belief in political and social equality in America gave way to the despair of the Jim Crow decades that followed. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association Second Place, Biography, Society of Midland Authors Honorable Mention, Benjamin F. Shambough Award, the State Historical Society of Iowa
We Will be Satisfied with Nothing Less
Hugh Davis
Author : Hugh Davis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801450099
We Will be Satisfied with Nothing Less by Hugh Davis Pdf
Davis concentrates on the two issues that African Americans in the North considered most essential: black male suffrage rights and equal access to the public schools.
American Routes
Angel Adams Parham
Author : Angel Adams Parham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190624767
American Routes by Angel Adams Parham Pdf
American Routes provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from nineteenth century St. Domingue/Haiti to Louisiana and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of two hundred years. The refugees reinforced Louisiana's tri-racial system and pushed back the progress of Anglo-American racialization by several decades. But over the course of the nineteenth century, the ascendance of the Anglo-American racial system began to eclipse Louisiana's tri-racial Latin/Caribbean system. The result was a racial palimpsest that transformed everyday life in southern Louisiana. White refugees and their descendants in Creole Louisiana succumbed to pressure to adopt a strict definition of whiteness as purity that conformed to standards of the Anglo-American racial system. Those of color, however, held on to the logic of the tri-racial system which allowed them to inhabit an intermediary racial group that provided a buffer against the worst effects of Jim Crow segregation. The St. Domingue/Haiti migration case foreshadows the experiences of present-day immigrants of color from Latin-America and the Caribbean, many of whom chafe against the strictures of the binary U.S. racial system and resist by refusing to be categorized as either black or white. The St. Domingue/Haiti case study is the first of its kind to compare the long-term integration experiences of white and free black nineteenth century immigrants to the U.S. In this sense, it fills a significant gap in studies of race and migration which have long relied on the historical experience of European immigrants as the standard to which all other immigrants are compared.
Journals of the House of Lords
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1258 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : SRLF:C0000031807
Journals of the House of Lords by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords Pdf
Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
Uneven Roads
Todd Shaw,Louis DeSipio,Dianne Pinderhughes,Lorrie Frasure,Toni-Michelle C. Travis
Author : Todd Shaw,Louis DeSipio,Dianne Pinderhughes,Lorrie Frasure,Toni-Michelle C. Travis
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781071824597
Uneven Roads by Todd Shaw,Louis DeSipio,Dianne Pinderhughes,Lorrie Frasure,Toni-Michelle C. Travis Pdf
Uneven Roads helps students grasp how, when, and why race and ethnicity matter in U.S. politics. Using the metaphor of a road, with twists, turns, and dead ends, this incisive text takes students on a journey to understanding political racialization and the roots of modern interpretations of race and ethnicity. The book’s structure and narrative are designed to encourage comparison and reflection. Students critically analyze the history and context of U.S. racial and ethnic politics to build the skills needed to draw their own conclusions. In the Third Edition of this groundbreaking text, authors Shaw, DeSipio, Pinderhughes, Frasure, and Travis bring the historical narrative to life by addressing the most contemporary debates and challenges affecting U.S. racial and ethnic politics. Students will explore important issues regarding voting rights, political representation, education and criminal justice policies, and the immigrant experience.
A Little More Freedom
Jack S. Blocker
Author : Jack S. Blocker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124009171
A Little More Freedom by Jack S. Blocker Pdf
Why did African Americans move from the rural South to the metropolitan North? Scholars have shown that African Americans took part in the urbanization of American society between the Civil War and the Great Depression, but the racial dimensions of their migration have remained unclear. A Little More Freedom is the first study to trace African American locational choices during the crucial period when migrants created pathways that would shape mobility through the twentieth century and beyond.This book identifies an "age of the village" for black Midwesterners, when Civil War and postwar migrants distributed themselves evenly across the urban hierarchies of the region. Using four case studies of Washington Court House, Ohio; Springfield, Ohio; Springfield, Illinois; and Muncie, Indiana, Blocker shows what life was like for African Americans in small towns and small cities, thus illuminating the reasons why most blacks ultimately chose to leave such places in favor of metropolitan centers such as Chicago, Indianapolis, and Cleveland. Previous scholars have emphasized the role of racist white violence as the catalyst, but A Little More Freedom takes a more nuanced approach.Emphasis upon racist violence and Jim Crow has inadvertently tended to portray African Americans as victims and their migrations as flight from danger and oppression. While not downplaying white racism, A Little More Freedom tries to recreate the threats and opportunities in urban places of different sizes as seen through the eyes of migrants.
International Relations Theory and International Law
Adriana Sinclair
Author : Adriana Sinclair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139491839
International Relations Theory and International Law by Adriana Sinclair Pdf
International law is playing an increasingly important role in international politics. However, international relations theorists have thus far failed to conceptualise adequately the role that law plays in politics. Instead, IR theorists have tended to operate with a limited conception of law. An understanding of jurisprudence and legal methodology is a crucial step towards achieving a better account of international law in IR theory. But many of the flaws in IR's idea of law stem also from the theoretical foundations of constructivism - the school of thought which engages most frequently with law. In this book, Adriana Sinclair rehabilitates IR theory's understanding of law, using cases studies from American, English and international law to critically examine contemporary constructivist approaches to IR and show how a gap in their understanding of law has led to inadequate theorisation.
The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education
Wanda Little Fenimore
Author : Wanda Little Fenimore
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781496843982
The Rhetorical Road to Brown v. Board of Education by Wanda Little Fenimore Pdf
As early as 1947, Black parents in rural South Carolina began seeking equal educational opportunities for their children. After two unsuccessful lawsuits, these families directly challenged legally mandated segregation in public schools with a third lawsuit in 1950, which was eventually decided in Brown v. Board of Education. Amidst the Black parents’ resistance, Elizabeth Avery Waring, a twice-divorced northern socialite, and her third husband, federal judge J. Waties Waring, launched a rhetorical campaign condemning white supremacy and segregation. In a series of speeches, the Warings exposed the incongruity between American democratic ideals and the reality for Black Americans in the Jim Crow South. They urged audiences to pressure elected representatives to force southern states to end legal segregation. Wanda Little Fenimore employs innovative research methods to recover the Warings’ speeches that said the unsayable about white supremacy. When the couple poked at the contradiction between segregation and “all men are created equal,” white supremacists pushed back. As a result, the couple received both damning and congratulatory letters that reveal the terms upon which segregation was defended and the reasons those who opposed white supremacy remained silent. Using rich archival materials, Fenimore crafts an engaging narrative that illustrates the rhetorical context from which Brown v. Board of Education arose and dispels the notion that the decision was inevitable. The first full-length account of the Warings’ rhetoric, this multilayered story of social progress traces the symbolic battle that provided a locus for change in the landmark Supreme Court decision.
The Bricks before Brown
Marisela Martinez-Cola
Author : Marisela Martinez-Cola
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820362045
The Bricks before Brown by Marisela Martinez-Cola Pdf
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation are unconstitutional, declaring “separate is inherently unequal.” Known as a seminal Supreme Court case and civil rights victory, Brown v. Board of Education resulted from many legal battles that predicated its existence. Marisela Martinez-Cola writes about the many important cases that led to the culmination of Brown. She reveals that the road to Brown is lined with “bricks” representing at least one hundred other families who legally challenged segregated schooling in state and federal courts across the country, eleven of which involved Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican American plaintiffs. By revealing the significance of Chinese American, Native American, and Mexican American segregation cases, Martinez-Cola provides an opportunity for an increasingly diverse America to be fully invested in the complete grand narrative of the civil rights movement. To illustrate the evolution of these cases, she focuses on three court cases from California, including these stories as part of the “long civil rights movement,” and thus expands our understanding of the scope of that movement along racial, gender, and class lines. Comparing and discussing the meaning of the other court cases that led to the Brown decision strengthens the standing of Brown while revealing all the twists and turns inherent in the struggle for equality.
The United States of the United Races
Greg Carter
Author : Greg Carter
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814772515
The United States of the United Races by Greg Carter Pdf
Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America. Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s Letters of an American Farmer in the 1780s through to the Mulitracial Movement of the 1990s and the debates surrounding racial categories on the U.S. Census in the twenty-first century, Greg Carter explores a broad range of documents and moments, unearthing a new narrative that locates hope in racial mixture. Carter traces the reception of the concept as it has evolved over the years, from and decade to decade and century to century, wherein even minor changes in individual attitudes have paved the way for major changes in public response. The United States of the United Races sweeps away an ugly element of U.S. history, replacing it with a new understanding of race in America.
Louisiana Women
Janet Allured,Judith F. Gentry,Mary Farmer-Kaiser,Shannon Lee Frystak
Author : Janet Allured,Judith F. Gentry,Mary Farmer-Kaiser,Shannon Lee Frystak
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Louisiana
ISBN : 9780820342696
Louisiana Women by Janet Allured,Judith F. Gentry,Mary Farmer-Kaiser,Shannon Lee Frystak Pdf
Highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana's most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state and showcases how these women affected its history.
Stony the Road
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780525559542
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Pdf
“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book Review A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, by the bestselling author of The Black Church. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century in between remains a mystery: if emancipation sparked "a new birth of freedom" in Lincoln's America, why was it necessary to march in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s America? In this new book, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., one of our leading chroniclers of the African-American experience, seeks to answer that question in a history that moves from the Reconstruction Era to the "nadir" of the African-American experience under Jim Crow, through to World War I and the Harlem Renaissance. Through his close reading of the visual culture of this tragic era, Gates reveals the many faces of Jim Crow and how, together, they reinforced a stark color line between white and black Americans. Bringing a lifetime of wisdom to bear as a scholar, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates uncovers the roots of structural racism in our own time, while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a "New Negro" to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age. The story Gates tells begins with great hope, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Union victory, and the liberation of nearly 4 million enslaved African-Americans. Until 1877, the federal government, goaded by the activism of Frederick Douglass and many others, tried at various turns to sustain their new rights. But the terror unleashed by white paramilitary groups in the former Confederacy, combined with deteriorating economic conditions and a loss of Northern will, restored "home rule" to the South. The retreat from Reconstruction was followed by one of the most violent periods in our history, with thousands of black people murdered or lynched and many more afflicted by the degrading impositions of Jim Crow segregation. An essential tour through one of America's fundamental historical tragedies, Stony the Road is also a story of heroic resistance, as figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells fought to create a counter-narrative, and culture, inside the lion's mouth. As sobering as this tale is, it also has within it the inspiration that comes with encountering the hopes our ancestors advanced against the longest odds.
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
Thom Hartmann
Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781523085965
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann Pdf
Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times bestselling author, explains how the Supreme Court has spilled beyond its Constitutional powers and how we the people should take that power back. Taking his typically in-depth, historically informed view, Thom Hartmann asks, What if the Supreme Court didn't have the power to strike down laws? According to the Constitution, it doesn't. From the founding of the republic until 1803, the Supreme Court was the final court of appeals, as it was always meant to be. So where did the concept of judicial review start? As so much of modern American history, it began with the battle between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and with Marbury v. Madison. Hartmann argues it is not the role of the Supreme Court to decide what the law is but rather the duty of the people themselves. He lays out the history of the Supreme Court of the United States, since Alexander Hamilton's defense to modern-day debates, with key examples of cases where the Supreme Court overstepped its constitutional powers. The ultimate remedy to the Supreme Court's abuse of power is with the people--the ultimate arbiter of the law--using the ballot box. America does not belong to the kings and queens; it belongs to the people.