Within that generation several schools of interpretation have developed on everything from slavery and its effects, the Civil Rights Movement, the impact of the Great Migration, and the rise of urban black communities. The acceptance of Afro-American history has contributed toward a reconceptualizin...
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The so-called liberal element of the white power structure never wants to see nationalists involved in anything that has to do with civil rights. And I'll tell you why. Any other Black people who get involved are involved within the rules that are laid down by the white liberals. And ...
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AMY GOODMAN:Today, in this special broadcast, we begin with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5th, 1852, in Rochester, New York, Frederick Douglass gave one of his most famous speeches, “What ...
Down from the Mountain Top: Black Women's Novels in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement, 1966-1989 . New Haven: Yale UP, 1991. 234 pp. $26.00. James Dejongh. Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination . New York: Cambridge UP, 1990. 280 pp. $24.95. Michael ...
This dissertation, presented in two parts, analyzes press reports and other accounts of annual meetings and activities of the National Afro-American Council (1898-1908) to chart its contributions to the civil rights movement and assess its constructive legacy. Part One, published in 2008 as (...
How a St. Paul Meeting of the National Afro-American Council Reshaped the Civil Rights Movement for DecadesIn July 1902 St. Paul hosted the most important African-Americanpolitical event of the year: the...Nelson, Paul
Amiri Baraka's Obie winning play, Dutchman (1964), depicts entrenched race relations in the USA during the civil rights era of which the playwright had a firsthand knowledge. But, it does something more than that. Employing semi-absurdist techniques and a closed setting that often reminds one...
There was always the rationale voiced to African Americans during the height of the American Civil Rights Movement that change was coming too fast; that a more incremental approach to societal change was best. Historically, equality became more pronounced within the sanctuary of a church, while ...