Download or read book African American Genealogical Sourcebook written by Paula Kay Byers and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale has launched another new project--Genealogical Sourcebook series--and the first volumes look promising. The remaining volumes on Asian Americans and Native Americans will be published this summer. Libraries can order all four volumes for $239 (0-8103-8541-4). Part 1 of each volume consists of informative essays on immigration and migration, basic genealogical methods and resources, and problems specific to ethnic genealogy--such as naming practices, the reuse of graves where families could not afford perpetual sites, and reasons for deliberate falsification of records. Explanations and tips on accessing records specific to these groups, such as those of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Inquisition, records of religious orders, and an overview of newspaper ads and Hispanic heraldry are instructive and pragmatic. Tables, examples, and an extensive bibliography are included. Part 2, 'Directory of Genealogical Information, ' lists libraries and archives, public and private organizations, print resources, and other media that 'hold materials relevant to genealogists whether their focus is on genealogy in general or on a specific ethnic group.' Libraries and archives are listed geographically; those outside the U.S. are in Canada for African Americans, and in Guatemala, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Cuba, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Canada for Hispanic Americans. There are surprisingly few listings for Florida, which has a substantial Hispanic population. Private and public organizations include commercial ventures (publishers, researchers for a fee, bookstores) and nonprofits (genealogical societies, the American Antiquarian Society, etc.). The section entitled 'Print Resources' lists many sources from the 1980s, but there are also current publications. The author and title-organization indexes access only the products and sources listed in part 2. The subject index accesses the essays in part 1. Libraries that hold books such as George R. Ryskamp's Tracing Your Hispanic Heritage (1984) will want to keep them for their scholarly thoroughness. They will want to add these new books for their relative currency and for their simpler explanations of complicated facets of black and Hispanic culture.--BL 05/15/1995.

Download or read book Proud Shoes written by Pauli Murray and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.

Download or read book Report of the Services Rendered by the Freed People to the United States Army written by Vincent Colyer and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Time Full of Trial written by Patricia Catherine Click and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of Roanoke Island freedmen's colony, from its 1863 settlement as a thriving community for slaves seeking freedom, to its 1867 demise due to conflicts over land ownership.

Download or read book The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750 1925 written by Herbert G. Gutman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1977-07-12 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.

Download or read book The Fire of Freedom written by David S. Cecelski and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-29 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against slavery and injustice. He risked his life behind enemy lines, recruited black soldiers for the North, and fought racism in the Union army's ranks. He also stood at the forefront of an African American political movement that flourished in the Union-occupied parts of North Carolina, even leading a historic delegation of black southerners to the White House to meet with President Lincoln and to demand the full rights of citizenship. He later became one of the first black men elected to the North Carolina legislature. Long hidden from history, Galloway's story reveals a war unfamiliar to most of us. As David Cecelski writes, "Galloway's Civil War was a slave insurgency, a war of liberation that was the culmination of generations of perseverance and faith." This riveting portrait illuminates Galloway's life and deepens our insight into the Civil War and Reconstruction as experienced by African Americans in the South.

Download or read book Dictionary of North Carolina Biography written by William S. Powell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.

Download or read book Red Book written by Alice Eichholz and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

Download or read book Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Department of Archives and History written by North Carolina. State Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book We Have Roots Too written by Mary Snider Greene and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anecdotes, tidbits and documents to provide insight into the lives of members of the Peterson, Freeland, gardner, Snider, Hurt and many other families of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Also, data on the Arnold family of Texas, the Ochs family of Tennessee and New York, the Wilder family of Vermont, the Barr family of Pennsylvania, and many others."--Back cover.

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Download or read book Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro written by David Maydole Matteson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers cases up through 1875.

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Download or read book Guide to Research Materials in the North Carolina State Archives written by North Carolina. Division of Archives and History. Archives and Records Section and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: