Download or read book Savannah Georgia written by Charles J. Elmore Ph.D. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering African-American families, spanning generations from slavery to freedom, enrich Savannah's collective history. Men and women such as Andrew Bryan, founder of the nation's oldest continuous black Baptist church; the Rev. Ralph Mark Gilbert, who revitalized the NAACP in Savannah; and Rebecca Stiles Taylor, founder of the Federation of Colored Women Club, are among those lauded in this retrospective. Savannah's black residents have made immeasurable contributions to the city and are duly celebrated and remembered in this volume.

Download or read book One Hundred Years of Educating at Savannah State College 1890 1990 written by Clyde W. Hall and published by Clyde W Hall. This book was released on 1991 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the development of Savannah State College during its first one hundred years of existence. This institution came into being as the first State-supported college in Georgia for Blacks because of the 1890 Land-Grant Act of the United States Government which mandated the State to create a college for Blacks if it wanted to continue receiving federal funds for White students enrolled in the agricultural & mechanic arts programs at the University of Georgia. This publication is subdivided by the administrations of the College's nine permanent & three acting presidents. A section covers the relationship between Atlanta University & the State of Georgia to fulfill the requirements of the 1862 Land-Grant Act before the founding of Savannah State College. To order write to: Clyde W. Hall, 4501 Whatley Avenue, Savannah, GA 31404. Phone: 912-354-3013.

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Download or read book Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule written by Debra Ann Reid and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This ground-breaking collection proves that there is still a great deal to learn about the lives of black southerners. The essays offer a counterpoint to the standard story that all African Americans in the rural South found themselves mired in poverty and dependency."--Melissa Walker, author of Southern Farmers and Their Stories "A remarkable achievement. The authors in this collection have retrieved African American farm owners from the margins of history, making clear that life on the land for African Americans not only transcended sharecropping but also shaped the contours of the struggle for freedom and justice."--Hasan Kwame Jeffries, author of Bloody Lowndes This collection chronicles the tumultuous history of landowning African American farmers from the end of the Civil War to today. Each essay provides a case study of people in one place at a particular time and the factors that affected their ability to acquire, secure, and protect their land. ?The contributors walk readers through a century and a half of African American agricultural history, from the strivings of black farm owners in the immediate post-emancipation period to the efforts of contemporary black farm owners to receive justice through the courts for decades of discrimination by the U.S Department of Agriculture. They reveal that despite enormous obstacles, by 1920 a quarter of African American farm families owned their land, and demonstrate that farm ownership was not simply a departure point for black migrants seeking a better life but a core component of the African American experience. Debra A. Reid, professor of history at Eastern Illinois University, is author of Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. Evan P. Bennett is assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University.