Broadcasting Freedom

Barbara D Savage

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• The World War II era represented the golden age of radio as a broadcast medium in the United States; it also witnessed a rise in African American acti... Lees meer

Left of the Color Line

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• This collection of fifteen new essays explores the impact of the organized Left and Leftist theory on American literature and culture from the 1920s t... Lees meer

A Faithful Account of the Race

Stephen G Hall

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, ... Lees meer

Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North

Patrick Rael

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this text Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in anteb... Lees meer

Making Gullah

Melissa L Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African ro... Lees meer

Doctoring Freedom

Gretchen Long

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an ... Lees meer

Visualizing Equality

Aston Gonzalez

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• The fight for racial equality in the nineteenth century played out not only in marches and political conventions but also in the print and visual cult... Lees meer

War! What Is It Good For?

Kimberley Phillips Boehm

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and ... Lees meer

Proudly We Can Be Africans

James H Meriwether

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americans' attitude... Lees meer

From the Bullet to the Ballot

Jakobi Williams

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the city's ... Lees meer

The Promise of Patriarchy

Ula Yvette Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization'... Lees meer

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Traci Parker

• Hardcover | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens o... Lees meer

Grassroots Garveyism

Mary G Rolinson

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• The black separatist movement led by Marcus Garvey has long been viewed as a phenomenon of African American organization in the urban North. This titl... Lees meer

Journey of Hope

Kenneth C Barnes

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While ... Lees meer

Living for the City

Donna Jean Murch

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral history ... Lees meer

The Color of the Law

Gail Williams O'Brien

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• On February 25, 1946, African Americans in Columbia, Tennessee, averted the lynching of James Stephenson, a nineteen-year-old, black Navy veteran accu... Lees meer

The Black Arts Movement

James Smethurst

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Emerging from a matrix of Old Left, black nationalist, and bohemian ideologies and institutions, African American artists and intellectuals in the 196... Lees meer

Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South

Kimberly M Welch

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examp... Lees meer

Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement

Traci Parker

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of histori... Lees meer

David Ruggles

Graham Russell Gao Hodges

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in Ame... Lees meer

Making Gullah

Melissa L Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African ro... Lees meer

Death Blow to Jim Crow

Erik S Gellman

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipat... Lees meer

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta

Karen Ferguson

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates ... Lees meer

African Cherokees in Indian Territory

Celia E Naylor

• Paperback | Engels | The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture
• Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them ... Lees meer