Download or read book Landmarks in African American History written by Michael V. Uschan and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling volume describes physical landmarks in African American history and discusses the history associated with those places. The book is organized around thematic chapters that take readers on a virtual tour of landmarks associated with the theme while also describing the people and events that inspired the landmarks. Thematic chapters include: The Slavery Era, African Americans Resist Slavery, The Civil War, Education for Blacks, The Civil Rights Movement, and African American Achievers.
Download or read book African American Historic Places written by National Register of Historic Places and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-07-13 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American Historic Places includes over 800 places in 42 states and two U.S. territories that have played a role in black American history. Banks, cemeteries, clubs, colleges, forts, homes, hospitals, schools, and shops are but a few of the types of sites explored in this volume, which is an invaluable reference guide for researchers, historians, preservationists, and anyone interested in African American culture. Also included are eight insightful essays on the African American experience, from migration to the role of women, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. The authors represent academia, museums, historic preservation, and politics, and utilize the listed properties to vividly illustrate the role of communities and women, the forces of migration, the influence of the arts and heritage preservation, and the struggles for freedom and civil rights. Together they lead to a better understanding of the contributions of African Americans to American history. They illustrate the events and people, the designs and achievements that define African American history. And they pay powerful tribute to the spirit of black America.
Download or read book Landmarks of African American History written by James Oliver Horton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Landmarks of African American History, James Oliver Horton chooses thirteen historic sites to explore the struggles and triumphs of African Americans and how they helped shape the rich and varied history of the United States. Horton begins with the first Africans brought to Jamestown, Virginia, and the start of slavery in the colonies that became the United States. Boston's Old State House provides the backdrop to the martyrdom of Crispus Attucks, the former slave killed in the Boston Massacre, the confrontation with British troops that led to the American Revolution. After the Civil War, former slaves settled the desolate area of Nicodemus, Kansas, and turned it into a thriving community. The USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Boston's Old State House illustrate African American contributions to the defense of their country and reveal racial tensions within the military. And the black students who demanded service at Woolworth's racially segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, launched the sit-in movement and advanced the fight for civil rights. Horton brings together a wide variety of African American historical sites to tell of the glory and hardship, of the great achievement and determination, of the people and events that have shaped the values, ideals, and dreams of our nation.
Download or read book Historic Landmarks of Black America written by George Cantor and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper edition (9408-1, $17.95) bears the subtitle, A traveler's guide, and is attributed to Visible Ink Press, a division of Gale. This reference is meant for students or travelers seeking information on sites throughout the US (plus Ontario) that are relevant to African-American history. A brief review of that history is followed by information about some 300 sites, arranged by region and then by state, with location and visitation data and discussion of each site's historical significance. Includes regional site-location maps, photos, a timeline, a bibliography, and an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Chronology of African American History written by Alton Hornsby and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the events and the people who have shaped the history of African Americans from the year 1619 to the present.
Download or read book Black Heritage Sites written by Nancy C. Curtis and published by Black Heritage Sites. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features more than five hundred sites of regional and national importance in the region accompanied by essays on geographic regions and landmark events
Download or read book Discovering African American St Louis written by John Aaron Wright and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans have been part of the story of St. Louis since the city's founding in 1764. Unfortunately, most histories of the city have overlooked or ignored their vital role, allowing their influence and accomplishments to go unrecorded or uncollected; that is, until the publication of Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites in 1994. A new and updated 2002 edition is now available to take readers on a fascinating tour of nearly four hundred African American landmarks. From the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis in East St. Louis, Illinois, to the site of the house that sparked the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer court case, the maps, photographs, and text of Discovering African American St. Louis record a history that has been neglected for too long. The guidebook covers fourteen regions east and west of the Mississippi that represent St. Louis's rich African American heritage. In the words of historian Gary Kremer, "No one who reads this book and visits and contemplates the places and peoples whose stories it recounts will be able to look at St. Louis in the same way ever again."
Download or read book The Virginia Landmarks Register written by Calder Loth and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virginia Landmarks Register, fourth edition, will create for the reader a deeper awareness of a unique legacy and will serve to enhance the stewardship of Virginia's irreplaceable heritage.
Download or read book Virginia Landmarks of Black History written by Calder Loth and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The buildings they constructed, the churches in which they worshiped and the schools in they studies preserve the story of these contributions.
Download or read book African American History written by Molefi Kete Asante and published by Peoples Publishing Group Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Americans Who Shaped American History written by Dr. Ted Adkisson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book does not attempt to tell the complete history of all the accomplishments of African American men and women featured in the book. But it is my hope that the book will become a starting point for further study of the contributions and achievements that a lot of African Americans have made in the past that helped shape American history. Many significant events and personalities in the African American's history and life portrayed in the book are respectfully highlighted as they pursued their goals in American society. The social, scientific, artistic, athletic, religious, educational, and economic development of African American characters was researched and carefully studied to examine the stories of African Americans as slaves who later became emancipated that helped shape American history. The basic aim of the book is to promote a better understanding of America's past by developing an increased awareness of the magnitude of the contribution of the African American in some areas of American life and through all periods of American history. Finally, the book is designed to give teachers and students in our educational and religious institutions a broader and more factual statement of the African Americans role in our nation's history so that the reader will realize that African American history is American history.
Download or read book Discovering Black New York written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide takes readers off the beaten path to the most important African-American landmarks in the Big Apple, including the Apollo Theater, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and excellent soul food restaurants. Photos.
Download or read book Black Men Built the Capitol written by Jesse Holland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind, with comprehensive up-to-date details Historic sites along the Mall, such as the U.S. Capitol building, the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, are explored from an entirely new perspective in this book, with never-before-told stories and statistics about the role of blacks in their creation. This is an iconoclastic guide to Washington, D.C., in that it shines a light on the African Americans who have not traditionally been properly credited for actually building important landmarks in the city. New research by a top Washington journalist brings this information together in a powerful retelling of an important part of our country's history. In addition the book includes sections devoted to specific monuments such as the African American Civil War Memorial, the real “Uncle Tom's cabin,” the Benjamin Banneker Overlook and Frederick Douglass Museum, the Hall of Fame for Caring Americans, and other existing statues, memorials and monuments. It also details the many other places being planned right now to house, for the first time, rich collections of black American history that have not previously been accessible to the public, such as the soon-to-open Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Monument, as well as others opening over the next decade. This book will be a source of pride for African Americans who live in or come from the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area as well as for the 18 million annual African American visitors to our nation's capital. Jesse J. Holland is a political journalist who lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. He is the Congressional legal affairs correspondent for the Associated Press, and his stories frequently appear in the New York Times and other major papers. In 2004, Holland became the first African American elected to Congressional Standing Committee of Correspondents, which represents the entire press corps before the Senate and the House of Representatives. A graduate of the University of Mississippi, he is a frequent lecturer at universities and media talk shows across the country.
Download or read book Profiles in Ohio History written by Ronald Shannon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the first one hundred and seventy-five-year history of the State of Ohio, many Ohio African American residents contributed significantly to Ohio and United States history. This book, which is divided into seven historical periods of Ohio and United States history, presents the lives and achievements of selected Ohio African American residents, including: JAMES STEWART: Founder of the Wyandot Indian Mission, the first Methodist Mission in America JOHN PARKER: Former slave, Conductor of the Underground Railroad, businessman, and inventor THE BLACK BRIGADE OF CINCINNATI: African American defenders of Cincinnati during the Civil War GARRETT MORGAN: Inventor, businessman, and newspaper publisher JOHN MERCER LANGSTON: Former Slave and the first African American elected to public office in the United States CHARLES YOUNG: The highest ranking Army officer during World War I HARRISON DILLARD: The only person to win an Olympic gold medal in both the one hundred meter dash and the one hundred and ten meter high hurdles This book also provides the reader with: information regarding the historical periods in which those profiled lived; a detailed chronological list of dates and events, and several Ohio landmarks relative to the African American experience in Ohio.
Download or read book National Museum of African American History and Culture written by Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This souvenir book showcases some of the most influential and important treasures of the National Museum of African American History and Culture's collections. These include a hymn book owned by Harriet Tubman; ankle shackles used to restrain enslaved people on ships during the Middle Passage; a dress that Rosa Parks was making shortly before she was arrested; a vintage, open-cockpit Tuskegee Airmen trainer plane; Muhammad Ali's headgear; an 1835 Bill of Sale enslaving a young girl named Polly; and Chuck Berry's Cadillac. These objects tell us the full story of African American history, of triumphs and tragedies and highs and lows. This book, like the museum it represents, uses artifacts of African American history and culture as a lens into what it means to be an American.
Download or read book Complete Encyclopedia of African American History written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive resource explores the past, the progress, and the present of African Americans in four volumes, each building, complementing, and expanding on the previous volume. - "Volume 1: 400 Years of Achievement" presents four centuries of noteworthy accomplishments through a fascinating mix of biographies--including more than 750 influential figures--little-known or misunderstood historical facts, and enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements. - "Volume 2: Notable Firsts" is an exhilarating listing of the accomplishments of black Americans in the arts, business, education, the military, medicine and science, and sports. - "Volume 3: Heroes and Heroines" is an eclectic mix of profiles of 150 well-known and lesser-known individuals who have made a lasting and profound impact on our culture. - "Volume 4: Civil Rights Feats and Facts" details the important people, places, and events of the black struggle for freedom.The Complete Encyclopedia of African American History showcases a legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph through consequential events and people, covering milestones and challenges met while highlighting the considerable contributions African Americans have made to the fabric of American society and culture. It provides insights on--and inspiration from--the influence and impact of African Americans on the United States in a broad range of endeavors from politics, education, religion, business, science, medicine, the military, sports, literature, music, dance, theater, art, film, television, and more.
Download or read book Black Heritage Sites written by Nancy C. Curtis and published by ALA Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1996, this moving guide locates significant places in African American history and supplies more recent addresses, phone numbers, and visitor's information than any other source in print.
