William Dorsey S Philadelphia And Ours

Author : Roger Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1991-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195362213

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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours by Roger Lane Pdf

Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, formally free and increasingly urban, made the biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences that point to the possibility of change.

Author : Roger Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780195065664

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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours by Roger Lane Pdf

Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, formally free and increasingly urban, made the biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences that point to the possibility of change.

Author : Andrew Ritchie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135755874

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Ethnicity, Sport, Identity by Andrew Ritchie Pdf

The struggle for status within sport is a microcosm of the struggle for rights, freedom and recognition within society. Injustices within sport often reflect larger injustices in society as a whole. In South Africa, for example, sport has been crucial in advancing the rights and liberty of oppressed groups. The geographical and chronological range of the essays in Ethnicity, Sport, Identity reveal the global role of sport in this advance. The collection examines cases of discrimination directed at individuals or groups, resulting in their exclusion from full participation in sport and their consequent struggle for inclusion. It shows how ethnic and national identity are sources of social cohesion and political assertion within sport, and it illustrates the manner in which sport has served to project ethnicity in various, often contradictory ways. It depicts sport as an agent of conservatism and radicalism, superiority and subordination, confidence and lack of confidence, and as a source of disenfranchisement and enfranchisement. That sport has been, and continues to be, a potent means of both ethnic restriction and release can no longer be ignored.

Author : William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0812215737

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The Philadelphia Negro by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois Pdf

Twenty-three research papers written by Liberman and colleagues at Haskins Laboratories charts the techniques, methods and insights discovered about speech perception over a period of five decades. The topics span a number of research dilemmas, for example creating machine produced speech in 1944 when technology had not risen to the researchers' imagination level. Other subjects such as speech perception research, motor theory research, and investigations in auditory and phonetic modes, are shown in process, i.e. the errors and reversals as well as the successes. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Frederick Douglass
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300218305

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The Frederick Douglass Papers by Frederick Douglass Pdf

A second volume of the collected correspondence of the great African-American reformer and abolitionist features correspondence written during the Civil War years The second collection of meticulously edited correspondence with abolitionist, author, statesman, and former slave Frederick Douglass covers the years leading up to the Civil War through the close of the conflict, offering readers an illuminating portrait of an extraordinary American and the turbulent times in which he lived. An important contribution to historical scholarship, the documents offer fascinating insights into the abolitionist movement during wartime and the author's relationship to Abraham Lincoln and other prominent figures of the era.

Author : Sheryll Cashin
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786721726

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The Agitator's Daughter by Sheryll Cashin Pdf

During Reconstruction, Herschel V. Cashin was a radical republican legislator who championed black political enfranchisement throughout the South. His grandson, Dr. John L. Cashin, Jr., inherited that passion for social justice and formed an independent Democratic party to counter George Wallace's Dixiecrats, electing more blacks to office than in any Southern state. His "uppity" ways attracted many enemies. Twice the private plane Cashin owned and piloted was sabotaged. His dental office and boyhood home were taken by eminent domain. The IRS pursued him, as did the FBI. Ultimately his passions would lead to ruin and leave his daughter, Sheryll, wondering why he would risk so much. In following generations of Cashins through the eras of slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights, and post-civil rights political struggles, Sheryll Cashin conveys how she came to embrace being an agitator's daughter with humor, honesty, and love.

Author : David A. Canton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781604734263

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Raymond Pace Alexander by David A. Canton Pdf

Raymond Pace Alexander (1897-1974) was a prominent black attorney in Philadelphia and a distinguished member of the National Bar Association, the oldest and largest association of African American lawyers and judges. A contemporary of such nationally known black attorneys as Charles Hamilton Houston, William Hastie, and Thurgood Marshall, Alexander litigated civil rights cases and became well known in Philadelphia. Yet his legacy to the civil rights struggle has received little national recognition. As a New Negro lawyer during the 1930s, Alexander worked with left-wing organizations to desegregate an all-white elementary school in Berwin, Pennsylvania. After World War II, he became an anti-communist liberal and formed coalitions with like-minded whites. In the sixties, Alexander criticized Black Power rhetoric, but shared some philosophies with Black Power such as black political empowerment and studying black history. By the late sixties, he focused on economic justice by advocating a Marshall Plan for poor Americans and supporting affirmative action. Alexander was a major contributor to the northern civil rights struggle and was committed to improving the status of black lawyers. He was representative of a generation who created opportunities for African Americans but was later often ignored or castigated by younger leaders who did not support the tactics of the old guard's pioneers.

Author : Jessie Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1089 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216042846

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Encyclopedia of African American Business [2 volumes] by Jessie Smith Pdf

This two-volume set showcases the achievements of African American entrepreneurs and the various businesses that they founded, developed, or promote as well as the accomplishments of many African American leaders—both those whose work is well-known and other achievers who have been neglected in history. Nearly everyone is familiar with New York City's Wall Street, a financial center of the world, but much fewer individuals know about the black Wall Streets in Durham and Tulsa, where prominent examples of successful African American leaders emerged. Encyclopedia of African American Business: Updated and Revised Edition tells the fascinating story that is the history of African American business, providing readers with an inspiring image of the economic power of black people throughout their existence in the United States. It continues the historical account of developments in the African American business community and its leaders, describing the period from 18th-century America to the present day. The book describes current business leaders, opens a fuller and deeper insight into the topics chosen, and includes numerous statistical tables within the text and in a separate section at the back of the book. The encyclopedia is arranged under three broad headings: Entry List, Topical Entry List, and Africa American Business Leaders by Occupation. This arrangement introduces readers to the contents of the work and enables them to easily find information about specific individuals, topics, or occupations. The book will appeal to students from high school through graduate school as well as researchers, library directors, business enterprises, and anyone interested in biographical information on African Americas who are business leaders will benefit from the work.

Author : Douglas Walter Bristol
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801892837

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Knights of the Razor by Douglas Walter Bristol Pdf

They advocated economic independence from whites and founded insurance companies that became some of the largest black-owned corporations.--L. Diane Barnes "Alabama Review"

Author : Adelaide M. Cromwell
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1610752937

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Other Brahmins, Boston Black Upper Class (c) by Adelaide M. Cromwell Pdf

Author : Rodger Streitmatter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0813108306

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Raising Her Voice by Rodger Streitmatter Pdf

"Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St.Pierre Ruffin, Delilah L. Beasley, Marvel Cooke, Charlotta A. Bass, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Ethel L. Payne, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault."

Author : Nina Mjagkij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135581237

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Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations by Nina Mjagkij Pdf

With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans forHumanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * BlackWomen's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science* National Association of Black Geologists andGeophysicists * National Dental Association * NationalMedical Association * Negro Railway Labor ExecutivesCommittee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association *Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist EpiscopalChurch * and many more.

Author : Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820368696

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The Families’ Civil War by Holly A. Pinheiro Jr. Pdf

Author : Britt Rusert
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479805723

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Fugitive Science by Britt Rusert Pdf

Honorable Mention, 2019 MLA Prize for a First Book Sole Finalist Mention for the 2018 Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association Exposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing the archives of early African American literature, performance, and visual culture, Britt Rusert uncovers the dynamic experiments of a group of black writers, artists, and performers. Fugitive Science chronicles a little-known story about race and science in America. While the history of scientific racism in the nineteenth century has been well-documented, there was also a counter-movement of African Americans who worked to refute its claims. Far from rejecting science, these figures were careful readers of antebellum science who linked diverse fields—from astronomy to physiology—to both on-the-ground activism and more speculative forms of knowledge creation. Routinely excluded from institutions of scientific learning and training, they transformed cultural spaces like the page, the stage, the parlor, and even the pulpit into laboratories of knowledge and experimentation. From the recovery of neglected figures like Robert Benjamin Lewis, Hosea Easton, and Sarah Mapps Douglass, to new accounts of Martin Delany, Henry Box Brown, and Frederick Douglass, Fugitive Science makes natural science central to how we understand the origins and development of African American literature and culture. This distinct and pioneering book will spark interest from anyone wishing to learn more on race and society.

Author : Joe Trotter,Eric Ledell Smith
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271040073

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African Americans in Pennsylvania by Joe Trotter,Eric Ledell Smith Pdf