Upbuilding Black Durham

Author : Leslie Brown
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807877530

Get Book

Upbuilding Black Durham by Leslie Brown Pdf

In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from emancipation to the civil rights era, as freedpeople and their descendants struggled among themselves and with whites to give meaning to black freedom. Brown paints Durham in the Jim Crow era as a place of dynamic change where despite common aspirations, gender and class conflicts emerged. Placing African American women at the center of the story, Brown describes how black Durham's multiple constituencies experienced a range of social conditions. Shifting the historical perspective away from seeing solidarity as essential to effective struggle or viewing dissent as a measure of weakness, Brown demonstrates that friction among African Americans generated rather than depleted energy, sparking many activist initiatives on behalf of the black community.

Author : Christina Greene
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807876374

Get Book

Our Separate Ways by Christina Greene Pdf

In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black middle class," Greene finds that, in fact, low-income African American women were the sustaining force for change. Greene demonstrates that women activists frequently were more organized, more militant, and more numerous than their male counterparts. They brought new approaches and strategies to protest, leadership, and racial politics. Arguing that race was not automatically a unifying force, Greene sheds new light on the class and gender fault lines within Durham's black community. While middle-class black leaders cautiously negotiated with whites in the boardroom, low-income black women were coordinating direct action in hair salons and neighborhood meetings. Greene's analysis challenges scholars and activists to rethink the contours of grassroots activism in the struggle for racial and economic justice in postwar America. She provides fresh insight into the changing nature of southern white liberalism and interracial alliances, the desegregation of schools and public accommodations, and the battle to end employment discrimination and urban poverty.

Author : Jeffrey D. Gonda
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469625461

Get Book

Unjust Deeds by Jeffrey D. Gonda Pdf

In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had purchased a property that prohibited the occupancy of African Americans and other minority groups through the use of legal instruments called racial restrictive covenants--one of the most pervasive tools of residential segregation in the aftermath of World War II. Over the next three years, local activists and lawyers at the NAACP fought through the nation's courts to end the enforcement of these discriminatory contracts. Unjust Deeds explores the origins and complex legacies of their dramatic campaign, culminating in a landmark Supreme Court victory in Shelley v. Kraemer (1948). Restoring this story to its proper place in the history of the black freedom struggle, Jeffrey D. Gonda's groundbreaking study provides a critical vantage point to the simultaneously personal, local, and national dimensions of legal activism in the twentieth century and offers a new understanding of the evolving legal fight against Jim Crow in neighborhoods and courtrooms across America.

Author : Jean Bradley Anderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822349839

Get Book

Durham County by Jean Bradley Anderson Pdf

This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.

Author : L. Brown,A. Valk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230109872

Get Book

Living with Jim Crow by L. Brown,A. Valk Pdf

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.

Author : Osha Gray Davidson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469646619

Get Book

The Best of Enemies, Movie Edition by Osha Gray Davidson Pdf

C. P. Ellis grew up in the poor white section of Durham, North Carolina, and as a young man joined the Ku Klux Klan. Ann Atwater, a single mother from the poor black part of town, quit her job as a household domestic to join the civil rights fight. During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ellis and Atwater met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue. Their encounters were charged with hatred and suspicion. In an amazing set of transformations, however, each of them came to see how the other had been exploited by the South's rigid power structure, and they forged a friendship that flourished against a backdrop of unrelenting bigotry. Now a major motion picture, The Best of Enemies offers a vivid portrait of a relationship that defied all odds. View the movie trailer here: https://youtu.be/eKM6fSTs-A0

Author : Maurice J. Hobson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469635361

Get Book

The Legend of the Black Mecca by Maurice J. Hobson Pdf

For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of black education dates back to Reconstruction, and produced an elite that flourished in spite of Jim Crow, rose to leadership during the civil rights movement, and then took power in the 1970s by building a coalition between white progressives, business interests, and black Atlantans. But as Maurice J. Hobson demonstrates, Atlanta's political leadership--from the election of Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor, through the city's hosting of the 1996 Olympic Games--has consistently mishandled the black poor. Drawn from vivid primary sources and unnerving oral histories of working-class city-dwellers and hip-hop artists from Atlanta's underbelly, Hobson argues that Atlanta's political leadership has governed by bargaining with white business interests to the detriment of ordinary black Atlantans. In telling this history through the prism of the black New South and Atlanta politics, policy, and pop culture, Hobson portrays a striking schism between the black political elite and poor city-dwellers, complicating the long-held view of Atlanta as a mecca for black people.

Author : Todd M. Michney
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469631950

Get Book

Surrogate Suburbs by Todd M. Michney Pdf

The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades. Yet much of this scholarship has downplayed Black agency and tended to portray African Americans as victims of structural forces beyond their control. In this history of Cleveland's Black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that members of this nascent community established footholds in areas outside the overcrowded, inner-city neighborhoods to which most African Americans were consigned. In asserting their right to these outer-city spaces, African Americans appealed to city officials, allied with politically progressive whites (notably Jewish activists), and relied upon both Black and white developers and real estate agents to expand these "surrogate suburbs" and maintain their livability until the bona fide suburbs became more accessible. By tracking the trajectories of those who, in spite of racism, were able to succeed, Michney offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on racial conflict and Black poverty and tells the neglected story of the Black middle class in America's cities prior to the 1960s.

Author : Blake Hill-Saya
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469655864

Get Book

Aaron McDuffie Moore by Blake Hill-Saya Pdf

Aaron McDuffie Moore (1863–1923) was born in rural Columbus County in eastern North Carolina at the close of the Civil War. Defying the odds stacked against an African American of this era, he pursued an education, alternating between work on the family farm and attending school. Moore originally dreamed of becoming an educator and attended notable teacher training schools in the state. But later, while at Shaw University, he followed another passion and entered Leonard Medical School. Dr. Moore graduated with honors in 1888 and became the first practicing African American physician in the city of Durham, North Carolina. He went on to establish the Durham Drug Company and the Durham Colored Library; spearhead and run Lincoln Hospital, the city's first secular, freestanding African American hospital; cofound North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company; help launch Rosenwald schools for African American children statewide; and foster the development of Durham's Hayti community. Dr. Moore was one-third of the mighty "Triumvirate" alongside John Merrick and C. C. Spaulding, credited with establishing Durham as the capital of the African American middle class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founding Durham's famed Black Wall Street. His legacy can still be seen on the city streets and country backroads today, and an examination of his life provides key insights into the history of Durham, the state, and the nation during Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow Era.

Author : Jerry Gershenhorn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798890854643

Get Book

Louis Austin and the Carolina Times by Jerry Gershenhorn Pdf

Author : Christopher McKnight Nichols,Nancy C. Unger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119775706

Get Book

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by Christopher McKnight Nichols,Nancy C. Unger Pdf

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches In today’s era, often referred to as a “second Gilded Age,” this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections

Author : W.E.B. Du Bois
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486496238

Get Book

W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings by W.E.B. Du Bois Pdf

"These essays by the prolific historian and civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois focus on some of the African-American author's lesser-known writings. They include "Strivings of the Negro People," "A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South," "The Talented Tenth," "Address to the Nation: The Niagara Movement Speech," "Evolution of the Race Problem," and more"--

Author : Joyce King
Publisher : Information King
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0976166119

Get Book

Growing Up Southern by Joyce King Pdf

GROWING UP SOUTHERN: White Men I Met Along The Way is an ordinary journey of little Negro girl to woman of color in America. King uses her life, in vivid essays, as a microcosm, to share stories of white boys and men she encountered in racial episodes and everyday dramas that are familiar to readers on both sides of the racial aisle. GUS is King's acronym for book, which is full of experiences inspired by some of the men King met in Jasper, a part of East Texas that King had negative childhood memories of. King redefines her own life and does it with candor, humor, honesty and balance. GROWING UP SOUTHERN isn't about throwing the race card. Instead, it reshuffles an old, outdated deck.

Author : Sarah Mayorga-Gallo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469618630

Get Book

Behind the White Picket Fence by Sarah Mayorga-Gallo Pdf

Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood

Author : Leslie Brown,Jacqueline Castledine,Anne Valk
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813575858

Get Book

U.S. Women's History by Leslie Brown,Jacqueline Castledine,Anne Valk Pdf

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful—women’s historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. Some essays uncover little-known aspects of women’s history, while others offer a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches. Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, these essays vividly convey the long histories and ongoing relevance of topics ranging from women’s immigration to incarceration, from acts of cross-dressing to the activism of feminist mothers. This volume thus not only untangles the threads of the sisterhood mythos, it weaves them into a multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that reflects the breadth and diversity of U.S. women’s history.