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141	Fifty-Plus Years Later: Former Students Reflect on the Impact of Learning about the Civil Rights Movement Wheeler, Belinda 09 September 2010 (has links) No description available. African History American History Black History Curricula Education Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Civil Rights Curriculum Curriculum
142	'Our girls can match 'em every time': The Political Activities of African American Women in Philadelphia, 1912-1941 Fry, Jennifer Reed January 2010 (has links) This dissertation challenges the dominant interpretation in women's history of the 1920s and 1930s as the "doldrums of the women's movement," and demonstrates that Philadelphia's political history is incomplete without the inclusion of African American women's voices. Given their well-developed bases of power in social reform, club, church, and interracial groups and strong tradition of political activism, these women exerted tangible pressure on Philadelphia's political leaders to reshape the reform agenda. When success was not forthcoming through traditional political means, African American women developed alternate strategies to secure their political agenda. While this dissertation is a traditional social and political history, it will also combine elements of biography in order to reconstruct the lives of Philadelphia's African American political women. This work does not describe a united sisterhood among women or portray this period as one of unparalleled success. Rather, this dissertation will bring a new balance to political history that highlights the importance of local political activism and is at the same time sensitive to issues of race, gender, and class. Central to this study will be the development of biographical sketches for the key African American women activists in Philadelphia, reconstructing the challenges they faced in the political arena, as feminists and as reformers. Enfranchisement did not immediately translate into political power, as black women's efforts to achieve their goals were often frustrated by racial tension with white women and gender divisions within the African American community. This dissertation also contributes to the historical debate regarding the shifting partisan alliance of the African American community. African Americans not intimately tied to the club movement or machine politics spearheaded the move away from the Republicans. They did so not out of economic reasons or as a result of Democratic overtures but because of the poor record of the Republicans on racial issues. Crystal Bird Fauset's rise to political power, as the first African American woman elected to a state legislature in the United States, provides important insight into Philadelphia Democratic politics, the African American community, and the extensive organizational and political networks woven by African American women. / History History, United States Women's Studies Black History African American Women Fauset Crystal Bird Philadelphia Political History Suffrage
143	The Black Manifesto and the Churches: The Struggle for Black Power and Reparations in Philadelphia George, Michael Essa January 2013 (has links) James Forman's Black Manifesto demanded $500 million in reparations from the nation's white churches and synagogues for their financial, moral, and spiritual complicity in the centuries of injustice carried out upon African Americans. Many African-American ministers in the North embraced the Black Power ideology and supported Forman's call for financial redress. These Northern clergymen had become exasperated with an interracial civil rights movement that neglected to confront the systemic racism that permeated the nation's culture. Black Manifesto activists attempted to compel the white churches into paying reparations by interrupting worship services and occupying church buildings throughout the urban North. While the vast majority of the American public believed that the Black Manifesto was simply an attempt to extort money from the white churches, there was a racially diverse contingent of clergymen who wholeheartedly supported the call for reparations. The primary reason that Philadelphia became one of the key arenas in the struggle for reparations was the presence of Muhammad Kenyatta, the local Black Economic Development Conference leader. Kenyatta implemented myriad confrontational tactics in an attempt to cajole the Philadelphia-area denominations into responding affirmatively to the Black Manifesto's demands. The young activist was able to form an alliance with influential leaders within the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. Paul Washington, an African-American minister, and Bishop Robert DeWitt, a white clergyman, supported the Black Manifesto and encouraged their fellow Episcopalians to do likewise. The duo's support for the Black Manifesto encouraged the Episcopalians to become the first predominantly white denomination to pay reparations to the Black Economic Development Conference. Although the payment was just $200,000, the concept of supporting a militant African-American organization was more than many conservative Episcopalians could tolerate. The debate over the Black Manifesto at the denomination's 1969 Special General Convention also enabled many African-American ministers to express long-held grievances regarding racism in the Church. A detailed examination of the rancorous debate over the Black Manifesto in Philadelphia complicates any simplistic narrative of the struggle for racial justice in the North. While many historians have blamed Black Power activists for derailing the civil rights movement, this study reveals that the fight against structural racism in the North generated political unity among African Americans that has lasted to the present day. The conflict among Philadelphians over the Black Manifesto was in no way split along racial lines. Many of document's most vehement supporters were white while many of its greatest detractors were conservative African Americans. The dispute over the Black Manifesto in Philadelphia illuminates the intellectual diversity present within the African-American population as well as the Black Power movement itself. / History African American Studies Black History Religious History Black Manifesto Black Power Episcopal Muhammad Kenyatta Paul Washington Reparations
144	THE SEARCH FOR ANTI-RACIAL EXOTICISM : BLACK LEISURE TRAVEL, THE CARIBBEAN, AND COLD WAR POLITICS, 1954-1961 Rodrigue, Matthew M. January 2010 (has links) By the mid-1950s leisure travel became both a new arena in the civil rights movement as well as a tactic in that struggle. Middle class African Americans felt their travel (both domestic and international) constituted both a critique of race relations at home and a realization of their rights as citizens. Alongside this development, I argue, was the proliferation of black travel columns and travel ads that simultaneously upheld the Caribbean as a model of racial progressivism while reinforcing its status as an exotic location dedicated to the pleasure of American tourists. By 1960 this ostensibly apolitical movement became politicized when ex-boxer Joe Louis met resistance from the mainstream press after promoting Fidel Castro's Cuba as a black American playground. In this second section I argue that the scandal surrounding Louis' PR campaign was revelatory of white unease regarding the transnational racial/political connections being forged between a selection of African Americans and Castro, thus constituting the story as yet another episode in the entangled development of the Cold War and the civil rights movement. / History History, United States Black History History, Latin American Civil Rights Cold War Cultural History History of Tourism Leisure Travel
145	"A CENTURY NEW FOR THE DUTY AND THE DEED": BLACK SPECULATIVE FICTION AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Miller, Brandon Ricks 05 1900 (has links) My dissertation examines four Black speculative novels from the turn of the twentieth century, published between 1892-1904. Texts from this tradition tend to be grouped under an umbrella of “proto-Afrofuturism” or “proto-science fiction” and considered as early, surprising instances of a speculative mode that would only fully emerge several decades later. This categorization, while accurate in some respects, flattens out the diversity of the Black speculative imagination at the turn of the century. Therefore, I prioritize demonstrating the uniqueness of each author’s vision. At the same time, I argue that these texts share a fundamental similarity in their approach: they anticipate Arthur Schomburg’s famous injunction that the “Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.” They use the affordances of the speculative mode to experiment with a shared Black history and explore the possibilities and limitations of that history for a viable and desirable Black future. The authors that I examine challenge the conclusions of racial science that were used to justify a racially stratified society. In doing so, these authors speculate about the imminent future of Black Americans. But even though the perspective of these texts is the imminent future, their central preoccupation is actually Black history. Each of these texts experiment with a different possible shared history with which Black Americans can anchor a collective political identity. This approach is in distinct contrast to the typical approach of turn of the century utopian texts. If we can say axiomatically that white utopian texts, though they often extrapolate and project a distant future, actually function to estrange the present moment; then we can say, in contrast, that Black utopian texts from this era, although they are concerned about an imminent future, more fundamentally estrange the past. / English American literature African American studies American studies African American literature Afrofuturism American literature Black history Speculative fiction Utopian literature
146	Magical Bodies, those who see and those who don't Cunningham, Amirah M. 23 June 2023 (has links) No description available. Fine Arts Black History African American Studies Art Criticism African Americans African History African Studies American History Art History Ethics Personality Spirituality Magical body magical magic Black history art canon erasure exclusion inclusion art history black history history art fine art family familial relationship archive family history oral history politics political body disenfranchise black bodies perspective painting validity red line blue collar mundane celebratory
147	“Power and Peace:” Black Power Era Student Activism in Virginia and North Carolina Davis, Sarajanee O. January 2020 (has links) No description available. African American Studies African Americans History Black History Black Studies Black Power Black Student Activism Higher Education Desegregation Upper South 20th Century US History
148	I'm Every (Black) Woman: Negotiating Intersectionality in the Music Industry Hudson, Jacqueline P. 01 September 2021 (has links) No description available. American Studies African American Studies Black History Music Intersectionality race gender black women Big Mama Thornton Nina Simone Janet Jackson Janelle Monae Lizzo, music industry, black music
149	FROM SELF-AUTHORSHIP TO SELF-DEFINITION: REMAPPING THEORETICAL ASSUMPTIONS THROUGH BLACK FEMINISM Okello, Wilson Kwamogi 26 November 2018 (has links) No description available. Black Studies Higher Education Epistemology Educational Leadership Developmental Psychology Black History Black Feminism Self-Authorship Self-Definition Black Existentialism Student Development Theory History Performance Epistemology
150	Traditional Healing in Psychology on the Caribbean Island of Montserrat, West Indies Cabey, Yvette Adelcia 25 March 2022 (has links) No description available. Psychology Alternative Medicine Folklore Health Caribbean Studies Black History

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