The Negro in West Virginia Before 1900
Author: John Reuben Sheeler
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 608
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Author: John Reuben Sheeler
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 608
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bob Barnett
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-04-09
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1476678979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation. Despite having inadequate resources, the black schools' sports teams thrived during segregation and helped tie the state's scattered black communities together. West Virginia hosted the nation's first state-wide black high school basketball tournament, which flourished for 33 years, and both Bluefield State and West Virginia State won athletic championships in the prestigious Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (now Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association). Black schools were gradually closed after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the desegregation of schools in West Virginia was an important step toward equality. For black athletes and their communities, the path to inclusion came with many costs.
Author: West Virginia. Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics
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Published: 1924
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John C. Inscoe
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2001-12-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780813171227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican Americans have had a profound impact on the economy, culture, and social landscape of southern Appalachia but only after a surge of study in the last two decades have their contributions been recognized by white culture. Appalachians and Race brings together 18 essays on the black experience in the mountain South in the nineteenth century. These essays provide a broad and diverse sampling of the best work on race relations in this region. The contributors consider a variety of topics: black migration into and out of the region, educational and religious missions directed at African Americans, the musical influences of interracial contacts, the political activism of blacks during reconstruction and beyond, the racial attitudes of white highlanders, and much more. Drawing from the particulars of southern mountain experiences, this collection brings together important studies of the dynamics of race not only within the region, but throughout the South and the nation over the course of the turbulent nineteenth century.
Author: A. B. Caldwell
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781935978794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published as volume VII, 1923, A.B. Caldwell Publishing Company, Atlanta, Ga.
Author: West Virginia
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Published: 1922
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Edward Posey
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Published: 1934
Total Pages: 119
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: West Virginia. Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics
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Published: 1926
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cicero M Fain III
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2019-05-16
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0252051432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow African Americans thrived in a West Virginia city By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans from across Appalachia and the South. Prosperity gave these migrants political clout and spurred the formation of communities that defined black Huntington--factors that empowered blacks to confront institutionalized and industrial racism on the one hand and the white embrace of Jim Crow on the other. Cicero M. Fain III illuminates the unique cultural identity and dynamic sense of accomplishment and purpose that transformed African American life in Huntington. Using interviews and untapped archival materials, Fain details the rise and consolidation of the black working class as it pursued, then fulfilled, its aspirations. He also reveals how African Americans developed a host of strategies--strong kin and social networks, institutional development, property ownership, and legal challenges--to defend their gains in the face of the white status quo. Eye-opening and eloquent, Black Huntington makes visible another facet of the African American experience in Appalachia.
Author: Cicero M. Fain
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 284
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