... rights movement, supporting the quest for freedom and equal rights. At Freedom School, students learned about their heritage. Citizenship was the only required class. In it, students discussed African American history and read books they had never heard of written by famous Black authors. They also...

... Du Bois W E B King Martin Luther Jr National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP Parks Rosa Robinson Jo Ann Souls of Black Folk Du Bois Wells Ida B Intellectual Black Women History Organic Intellectual African American history A Seat at the Table...

..., self-reliant judgment of the nation’s practices in light of its professions. In contrast with sociologically-reductive accounts of black victimhood, Hill reads Ellison as interpreting American history as involving significant African American agency and influence that belies their status as second...

...In his 1903 collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois acknowledged the influence of race in American history by pronouncing that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” He argued that America must reconcile the promise of its...

...This chapter discusses the changes in Wideman’s later works, which now encompass areas beyond his immediate family and their history. The arc of his latest works has shifted to American history, to Africa, and to Martinique. It could be argued that Wideman’s later novels merely reflect the times...

... obelisks Payne Emeline Wilson Lewis African American history Bellefontaine Cemetery Slave burials St. Louis segregation When noted African American antislavery minister John Berry Meachum died while preaching from his pulpit in February 1854, his burial at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis...

...This book contains eight essays on African American history from the Jacksonian era through the early twentieth century. Taken together, these essays, inspired by noted scholar John F. Marszalek, demonstrate the many nuances of African Americans’ struggle to grasp freedom, respect, assimilation...

... not just by his personal experience but by wide, self-guided reading, particularly in American history. Dylan Bob Springsteen Bruce Young Neil Lott Eric Love and Theft Lott minstrelsy Wilentz Sean Niebuhr Reinhold Plato Nelson Willie Young Iris Marion Baez Joan Masked and Anonymous 2003 Moore...

... for the public-education program Woodson developed for preserving and promoting African American history. Woodson Carter G Woodson James Henry illiteracy xviii xxiv segregation xviii Barnett Carter H Jones Oliver Riddle John Works Yancey Bessie Woodson Huntington West Virginia Washington Booker T xvii...

...Evidence of Carter G. Woodson’s influence is abundant. At the opening ceremony for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on September 24, 2016, Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon, recalled his study of Woodson’s work for inspiration as a young...

... Stevenson Bryan material ecocriticism African American history Memory Race nature In Beloved, Toni Morrison deftly turns to color as a signifying system of loss, sorrow, and joy. After her granddaughter’s murder and the subsequent familial dissolution, Baby Suggs retreats to her bed...

... 13 through November 4, the Freedom Vote’s impact far transcends those few weeks in the fall of 1963 and extends beyond the borders of Mississippi. Campaign manager Bob Moses was right to label the Freedom Vote “one of the most unique voting campaigns in American history.” It is precisely how...

...A Seat at the Table is about black women public intellectuals in United States (U.S.) history with a focus on recent American history. This book presents an overview of African American women as public intellectuals from the early twentieth century to the present. More specifically...

...This chapter reviews Bishop Henry McNeal Turner's speech on the eligibility of colored members to seats in the Georgia legislature, which is considered one of the finest orations in American history. It talks about Turner's witty sarcasm and bitter invectives and use of prophetic disputation...

...By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history—a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased to exist. Its development and its...