African American & Black Studies

In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for...

Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People...

Women promote the civic virtue of their labor. According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as ""doers of the word."" In ""Belabored...

Between 1877 and 1930 - years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and ""the Negro problem"" - African American activists promoted an array of strategies for progress and power built around ""racial...

Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed...

Amidst the violent racism prevalent at the turn of the twentieth century, African American cultural elites, struggling to articulate a positive black identity, developed a middle-class ideology of racial uplift. Insisting that they were truly...

This is the story of racial tension in the United States during the year of global war from mid-1942 to 1943. The author sees three groups to blame for this tension: the new Afro-American, better educated, better aware of his economic potentialities;...

The editors have sought to suggest in the title of these selected papers the range, complexity, and unity of Odum's thought as he moved from the Afro-American and black folksongs to the folk society and folk sociology, from race relations and the...

Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of...

Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the Urban League's activities in New York and Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in...

Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research--the Tuskegee syphilis...

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities...

Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation...

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This volume contains the memoirs of a black woman around the time of the Civil War, caught up with the 33rd United States coloured troops late 1st S.C volunteers.Book InformationISBN 9780910129855Author Susie King-TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count...

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In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of...

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"One day, I went to the slave market and watched em barter off po' niggers lak tey was hogs," said George Lycurgas, as recalled by his son, Edward. "Whole families sold together, and some was split-mother gone to one marster and father and...

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