History Ahead

History Ahead

Author: Dan K. Utley

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1603443444

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In History Ahead, Utley and Beeman introduce readers to the famous (Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, The Big Bopper and jazz great Charlie Christian) and the not-so-famous (Elmer "Lumpy" Kleb, Don Pedro Jaramillo and Carl Morene, the "music man" of Schulenburg) who have left their marks on the history of Texas. They visit cotton gins, abandoned airfields, forgotten cemeteries, and former world War II alien detention camps to dig up the little-known and unsuspected narratives that have slipped from the knowledge of the general public.


Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations

Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations

Author: Nina Mjagkij

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 1135581231

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With information on over 500 organizations, their founders and membership, this unique encyclopedia is an invaluable resource on the history of African-American activism. Entries on both historical and contemporary organizations include: * African Aid Society * African-Americans forHumanism * Black Academy of Arts and Letters * BlackWomen's Liberation Committee * Minority Women in Science* National Association of Black Geologists andGeophysicists * National Dental Association * NationalMedical Association * Negro Railway Labor ExecutivesCommittee * Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association *Women's Missionary Society, African Methodist EpiscopalChurch * and many more.


Charles H. Houston

Charles H. Houston

Author: James L. Conyers

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012-07-25

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0739143603

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This study seeks to examine the life and work of Charles Hamilton Houston and the scope of this project will focus on the implementation and organization of the proposed plan in three ways: philosophical ideas, constructive engagement, and lasting contributions of this legal scholar activist. When compiling scholarly articles for this volume, the challenge was examining not just legal precedents of Houston, but his contributions to the study of civic engagement, with emphasis on privilege, racism, disparity, and educational philosophy.


Revolt Against Chivalry

Revolt Against Chivalry

Author: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780231082839

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Revolt Against Chivalry, winner of the Frances B. Simkins and Lillian Smith Awards, is the classic account of how Jessie Daniel Ames - and the antilynching campaign she led - fused the causes of feminism and racial justice in the South during the 1920s and 1930s.


Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation

Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation

Author: Patricia Arneson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-11-29

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1611476518

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Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will Be Made recognizes limitations in contemporary understandings that separate history and rhetoric. Drawing together ontological and epistemic perspectives to allow for a fuller appreciation of communication in shaping lived-experience, facets of the two academic subjects are united in acts of communicative engagement. Communicative engagement draws from Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s writings on the human condition; extends the communicative praxis of philosopher Calvin O. Schrag by reuniting theōria-poíēsis-praxis; expands Ramsey Eric Ramsey’s writings to provide ground for vitalizing social liberation; and includes the work of philosophers including Hans-Georg Gadamer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Michel Foucault as well as philosophers of communication including Lenore Langsdorf, Michael J. Hyde, Corey Anton, and others who guide a recollection of the significance of poíēsis in human communication. Myrtilla Miner, Mary White Ovington, and Jessie Daniel Ames dedicated their lives to being out-of-place and speaking out-of-turn to alter the way humanity was understood by members of society at large. The lived-experiences of these historical figures assists readers in recognizing how creativity (poíēsis) can potentially enable liberation from restrictive social circumstances.


Bullets and Fire

Bullets and Fire

Author: Guy Lancaster

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1682260445

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Bullets and Fire is the first collection on lynching in Arkansas, exploring all corners of the state from the time of slavery up to the mid-twentieth century and covering stories of the perpetrators, victims, and those who fought against vigilante violence. Among the topics discussed are the lynching of slaves, the Arkansas Council of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, the 1927 lynching of John Carter in Little Rock, and the state’s long opposition to a federal anti-lynching law. Throughout, the work reveals how the phenomenon of lynching—as the means by which a system of white supremacy reified itself, with its perpetrators rarely punished and its defenders never condemned—served to construct authority in Arkansas. Bullets and Fire will add depth to the growing body of literature on American lynching and integrate a deeper understanding of this violence into Arkansas history.


Lugenia Burns Hope, Black Southern Reformer

Lugenia Burns Hope, Black Southern Reformer

Author: Jacqueline Anne Rouse

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0820323861

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From the turn of the century until her death in 1947, Lugenia Burns Hope worked to promote black equality--in Atlanta as the wife of John Hope, president of both Morehouse College and Atlanta University, and on a national level in her discussions with such influential leaders as W.E.B. Du Bois and Jessie Daniel Ames. Highlighting the life of the zealous reformer, Jacqueline Anne Rouse offers a portrait of a seemingly tireless woman who worked to build the future of her race.


Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm

Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm

Author: John Elford

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-05-26

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1666767565

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Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm summons the reader on a most unusual journey through Methodist history. Along the way, we discover how the White American Methodist Church became deeply entangled with White supremacy. From the founding of the church in the late eighteenth century to the present, we have too often been silent bystanders or active accomplices in the enormous harm caused by racism. It's a complicated and shameful story few Methodists know. And yet, if we want to transform the world toward a different and better future for all, one free of the stranglehold of racism, we must come to terms with the story of our past--the whole story! Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm is a trustworthy guide into the church's troubled history. It's also a present-day call to action that finds inspiration in those Methodists who stood against the tide and those guiding the church today toward the horizon of racial justice.


Eradicating this Evil

Eradicating this Evil

Author: Mary Jane Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1136712534

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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.