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Book William Hooper Councill

Download or read book William Hooper Councill written by Eddie E. Davis (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Hooper Councill became the first ex-slave in America to found and to become president of a school for higher learning, known today as Alabama A&M University, opening the door for Booker T. Washington to teach in Alabama six years later. Multifaceted, Councill became an editor of his own newspaper, an author, a religious leader, a famed orator, a politician, a lawyer, and a civil rights pioneer. Councill stood his ground on the battlefield of prejudicial practices years before Homer Plessy and Rosa Parks. According to former Secretary of Alabama Frank Julian, Councill was ?the greatest man of the Negro race?. Undoubtedly the greatest benefactor of his own people that the Negro race has ever produced.? This compelling biography reveals how conditions were in the segregated South and revisits the strategies Councill used in order to help elevate his race, while also attempting to mend the racial divide among all men in the country he loved. Read and learn about William Hooper Councill, a man whom the world once knew; explore his story of sacrifice and witness the impact that his work generated, that is still producing today.

Book From Marion to Montgomery

Download or read book From Marion to Montgomery written by Joseph Caver and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama State University is well known as a historically black university and for the involvement of its faculty and students in the civil rights movement. Less attention has been paid to the school's remarkable origins, having begun as the Lincoln Normal School in Marion, Alabama, founded by nine former slaves. These men are rightly considered the progenitors of Alabama State University, as they had the drive and perseverance to face the challenges posed by a racial and political culture bent on preventing the establishment of black schools and universities. It is thanks to the actions of the Marion Nine that Alabama's rural Black Belt produces a disproportionate number of African American Ph.D. recipients, a testament to the vision of the Lincoln Normal School's founders. From Marion to Montgomery is the story of the Lincoln Normal School's transformation into the legendary Alabama State University, including the school's move to Montgomery in 1887 and evolution from Normal School to junior college to full-fledged four-year university. It's a story of visionary leadership, endless tenacity, and a true belief in the value of education.

Book The Story of the Negro

Download or read book The Story of the Negro written by Booker T. Washington and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Black Republic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brandon R. Byrd
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2019-11-08
  • ISBN : 0812251709
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book The Black Republic written by Brandon R. Byrd and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds—politicians, journalists, ministers, writers, educators, artists, and diplomats—identified new and urgent connections with Haiti, a nation long understood as an example of black self-determination. They celebrated not only its diplomatic recognition by the United States but also the renewed relevance of the Haitian Revolution. While a number of African American leaders defended the sovereignty of a black republic whose fate they saw as intertwined with their own, others expressed concern over Haiti's fitness as a model black republic, scrutinizing whether the nation truly reflected the "civilized" progress of the black race. Influenced by the imperialist rhetoric of their day, many African Americans across the political spectrum espoused a politics of racial uplift, taking responsibility for the "improvement" of Haitian education, politics, culture, and society. They considered Haiti an uncertain experiment in black self-governance: it might succeed and vindicate the capabilities of African Americans demanding their own right to self-determination or it might fail and condemn the black diasporic population to second-class status for the foreseeable future. When the United States military occupied Haiti in 1915, it created a crisis for W. E. B. Du Bois and other black activists and intellectuals who had long grappled with the meaning of Haitian independence. The resulting demand for and idea of a liberated Haiti became a cornerstone of the anticapitalist, anticolonial, and antiracist radical black internationalism that flourished between World War I and World War II. Spanning the Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction, and Jim Crow eras, The Black Republic recovers a crucial and overlooked chapter of African American internationalism and political thought.

Book NEW NEGRO FOR A NEW CENTURY

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fannie Barrier Williams
  • Publisher : Wentworth Press
  • Release : 2016-08-28
  • ISBN : 9781372416491
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book NEW NEGRO FOR A NEW CENTURY written by Fannie Barrier Williams and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Flaming Sword

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  • Author : Thomas Dixon
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2005-05-20
  • ISBN : 9780813191294
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book The Flaming Sword written by Thomas Dixon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Thomas Dixon is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling early twentieth-century Klan trilogy that included the novel The Clansman (1905), which provided the core narrative for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and still controversial film The Birth of a Nation (1915). In his twenty-eighth and last novel, The Flaming Sword (1939), Dixon takes to task his long-standing black critics, especially W.E.B. DuBois, by attacking what he considered to be a vast conspiracy by blacks and Communists to destroy America. A new introduction and detailed notes by John David Smith offer a valuable historical and critical perspective on this important and divisive classic of American literature. Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) was born in Shelby, North Carolina. He is the author of The Clansman and The Sins of the Father.

Book The Golden Age of Black Nationalism  1850 1925

Download or read book The Golden Age of Black Nationalism 1850 1925 written by Wilson Jeremiah Moses and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the work of Crummell, DuBois, Douglass, and Washington, looks at the literature of Black nationalism, and identifies trends and goals of Black Americans.

Book Afrocentrism

Download or read book Afrocentrism written by Stephen Howe and published by Verso. This book was released on 1999-08-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, racist, colonial, and Eurocentric bias has blocked or distorted knowledge of Africans, their histories and cultures, resulting in a counter mythology claiming the innate superiority of African-descended peoples. In this provocative study, historian Stephen Howe challenges this Afrocentric rewriting of African history. 16 photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book African Americans and the Classics

Download or read book African Americans and the Classics written by Margaret Malamud and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural traditions of black America, Africa and the Caribbean. Addressing a gap in this scholarship, Margaret Malamud investigates why and how advocates for abolition and black civil rights (both black and white) deployed their knowledge of classical literature and history in their struggle for black liberty and equality in the United States. African Americans boldly staked their own claims to the classical world: they deployed texts, ideas and images of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt in order to establish their authority in debates about slavery, race, politics and education. A central argument of this book is that knowledge and deployment of Classics was a powerful weapon and tool for resistance-as improbable as that might seem now-when wielded by black and white activists committed to the abolition of slavery and the end of the social and economic oppression of free blacks. The book significantly expands our understanding of both black history and classical reception in the United States.

Book The Black Revolts

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  • Author : Joseph W. Scott
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781412836043
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book The Black Revolts written by Joseph W. Scott and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was racism institutionalized in the United States? What strategies have black people used in their struggle for liberation and equality? Joseph Scott addresses these weighty questions from the perspective that at its core, racism is a "legal-political problem in which blacks and whites have been assigned to separate legal estates.'" He enumerates three different forms of exploitation to which black people have been subjected, and seven basic strategies they have used to combat slavery and institutional racism.

Book William Hooper Councill  The Greatest Negro the Race Ever Produced

Download or read book William Hooper Councill The Greatest Negro the Race Ever Produced written by Eddie E. Davis (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Hooper Councill became the first ex-slave in America to found and to become president of a school for higher learning, known today as Alabama A&M University, opening the door for Booker T. Washington to teach in Alabama six years later. Multifaceted, Councill became an editor of his own newspaper, an author, a religious leader, a famed orator, a politician, a lawyer, and a civil rights pioneer. Councill stood his ground on the battlefield of prejudicial practices years before Homer Plessy and Rosa Parks. According to former Secretary of Alabama Frank Julian, Councill was ?the greatest man of the Negro race?. Undoubtedly the greatest benefactor of his own people that the Negro race has ever produced.? This compelling biography reveals how conditions were in the segregated South and revisits the strategies Councill used in order to help elevate his race, while also attempting to mend the racial divide among all men in the country he loved. Read and learn about William Hooper Councill, a man whom the world once knew; explore his story of sacrifice and witness the impact that his work generated, that is still producing today.

Book The Conservation of Races

    Book Details:
  • Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-08-04
  • ISBN : 9781515354376
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book The Conservation of Races written by W. E. B. Du Bois and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Negro has always felt an intense personal interest in discussions as to the origins and destinies of races: primarily because back of most discussions of race with which he is familiar, have lurked certain assumptions as to his natural abilities, as to his political, intellectual and moral status, which he felt were wrong.

Book Up from History

Download or read book Up from History written by Robert Jefferson Norrell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In this compelling biography, Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. He urged black people to acquire economic independence and to develop the moral character that would ultimately gain them full citizenship. Although widely accepted as the most realistic way to integrate blacks into American life during his time, WashingtonÕs strategy has been disparaged since the 1960s. The first full-length biography of Booker T. in a generation, Up from History recreates the broad contexts in which Washington worked: He struggled against white bigots who hated his economic ambitions for blacks, African-American intellectuals like W. E. B. Du Bois who resented his huge influence, and such inconstant allies as Theodore Roosevelt. Norrell details the positive power of WashingtonÕs vision, one that invoked hope and optimism to overcome past exploitation and present discrimination. Indeed, his ideas have since inspired peoples across the Third World that there are many ways to struggle for equality and justice. Up from History reinstates this extraordinary historical figure to the pantheon of black leaders, illuminating not only his mission and achievement but also, poignantly, the man himself.

Book Black Marxism

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  • Author : Cedric J. Robinson
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2005-10-12
  • ISBN : 0807876127
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book Black Marxism written by Cedric J. Robinson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of blacks on western continents, Robinson argues, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright.

Book History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880

Download or read book History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880 written by George Washington Williams and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom s Lawmakers

Download or read book Freedom s Lawmakers written by Eric Foner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of concise biographical data on some 1,400 Black public officials of the Reconstruction era (1865-1877). Foner draws on growing research in this area to portray the diversity of these lawmakers' life experience, and to dispel dogged myths as to their fitness for office. An ample (21 p.) introduction provides an overview; five indexes offer access by state, occupation, birth status (free or slave), office held, and topic. Over 100 photographs (bandw), and 16 tables enhance this valuable document. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Heritage of Blacks in North Carolina

Download or read book The Heritage of Blacks in North Carolina written by Linda Simmons-Henry and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: