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Reparation and reconciliation : the rise and fall of integrated higher education / by Smith, Christi Michelle,author.(CARDINAL)338655;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-288) and index.A racial reckoning on campus? -- Education follows the flag -- Inside interracial colleges, 1837-1880 -- From cause to common charity : off-campus pressures -- The "Perils" of gender coeducation -- A scarcity of great men : educating leaders at Howard and Oberlin -- A new constituency for Berea -- Conclusion: from coeducation to the consecration of difference.Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education by policy makers, voluntary associations, and African Americans more broadly. Formed in 1846 by Protestant abolitionists, the American Missionary Association united a network of colleges open to all, designed especially to educate African American and white students together, both male and female. The AMA and its affiliates envisioned integrated campuses as a training ground to produce a new leadership class for a racially integrated democracy. Case studies at three colleges--Berea College, Oberlin College, and Howard University--reveal the strategies administrators used and the challenges they faced as higher education quickly developed as a competitive social field. Through a detailed analysis of archival and press data, Christi M. Smith demonstrates that pressures between organizations--including charities and foundations--and the emergent field of competitive higher education led to the differentiation and exclusion of African Americans, Appalachian whites, and white women from coeducational higher education and illuminates the actors and the strategies that led to the persistent salience of race over other social boundaries.
Subjects: Coeducation; Segregation in higher education; African Americans; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Mighty justice : my life in civil rights / by Roundtree, Dovey Johnson,1914-2018,author.(CARDINAL)636944; McCabe, Katie,author.(CARDINAL)493690;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Walking unafraid -- Making somethin' of yourself -- "Pass it on" -- My America -- "Everybody's war" -- Uneasy peace -- Making war on a lie -- Taking on "The supreme court of the confederacy" -- At the threshold of justice -- Out of the darkness -- "Peer of the most powerful" -- Healing the brokenness -- Benediction.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018.; Lawyers; African American lawyers; Women lawyers; Segregation in transportation; Segregation; Civil rights;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 15
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Mighty justice : the untold story of civil rights trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree / by Roundtree, Dovey Johnson,1914-2018,author.(CARDINAL)636944; Asim, Jabari,1962-adapter.(CARDINAL)773320; McCabe, Katie,author.(CARDINAL)493690; Adaptation of (expression):McCabe, Katie.Justice older than the law.; Adaptation of (expression):Roundtree, Dovey Johnson,1914-2018.Mighty justice.;
A biography of Dovey Johnson Roundtree--one of the first black women to break the racial and gender barriers in the US Army, and an attorney in the segregated courtrooms of Washington, D.C.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Young adult literature.; Roundtree, Dovey Johnson, 1914-2018.; African American women lawyers; Civil rights; Segregation; Women lawyers;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 15
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The Constitution of the United States : a primer for the people / by Currie, David P.(CARDINAL)506651;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-150) and index.
Subjects: Constitutional law;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jam on the vine [large print] / by Barnett, LaShonda K.(LaShonda Katrice),1974-author.(CARDINAL)656651;
Ivoe gets a scholarship to college and eventually flees the Jim Crow South to settle in Kansas City, where she helps found the first female-run African-American newspaper.
Subjects: Large print books.; Fiction.; African American women; African American journalists; Segregation;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Newspaper wars : civil rights and white resistance in South Carolina, 1935-1965 / by Bedingfield, Sid,author.(CARDINAL)349338;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index.Early struggles -- A newspaper joins the movement -- A black political insurgency in the Deep South -- The white press and the Dixiecrat revolt -- An old warrior underestimates a new foe -- Massive resistance and the death of a black newspaper -- The paper curtain and the new GOP -- Color-blind conservatism and the great white switch.Against all odds, the seeds of social change found purchase in mid-twentieth century South Carolina. Newspaperman John McCray and his allies at the Lighthouse and Informer challenged readers to "rebel and fight" -- to reject the "slavery of thought and action" and become "progressive fighters" for equality. Newspaper Wars traces the role journalism played in the fight for civil rights in South Carolina from the 1930s through the 1960s. Moving the press to the center of the political action, Sid Bedingfield tells the stories of long-overlooked men and women on the front lines of a revolution. African American progress sparked a battle to shape South Carolina's civic life, with civil rights activists arrayed against white journalists determined to preserve segregation through massive resistance. As that strategy failed, white newspapers turned to overt political action and crafted the still-prevalent narratives that aligned southern whites with the national conservative movement. A fascinating portrait of a defining struggle, Newspaper Wars analyzes the role journalism played -- and still can play -- during times of social, cultural, and political change.
Subjects: McCray, John Henry, 1910-1987.; Civil rights movements; African American newspapers; Press and politics; Racism in the press;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Did you hear about Kitty Karr? / a novel. by Smith Paul, Crystal,author);
When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between a cheating fiancé and the fallout from a controversial social media post, there are plenty. The truth behind Kitty's ascent to stardom from her beginnings in the segregated South threatens to expose a web of unexpected family ties, debts owed, and debatable crimes that could, with one pull, unravel the all-American fabric of the St. John sisters and those closest to them. As Elise digs deeper into Kitty's past, she must also turn the lens upon herself, confronting the gifts and burdens of her own choices and the power that the secrets of the dead hold over the living. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? is a sprawling page-turner set against the backdrop of the Hollywood machine, an insightful and nuanced look at the inheritances of family, race, and gender--and the choices some women make to break free of them.
Subjects: Alternative History.; Fiction.; Sex & Gender; Ethnic orientation;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9
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Right to ride : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / by Kelley, Blair Murphy,1973-(CARDINAL)308859;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- New York : the Antebellum roots of segregation and dissent -- The color line and the ladies' car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy -- Our people, our problem? : Plessy and the divided New Orleans -- Where are our friends? : crumbling alliances and New Orleans streetcar boycott -- Who's to blame? : Maggie Lena Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and the great class debate -- Negroes everywhere are walking : work, women, and the Richmond streetcar boycott -- Battling Jim Crow's buzzards : betrayal and the Savannah streetcar boycott -- Bend with unabated protest: on the meaning of failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores the community organizations that bound protestors together and the divisions of class, gender, and ambition that sometimes drove them apart. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: African Americans; Civil rights movements; Segregation in transportation; Boycotts;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Did you hear about Kitty Karr? [large print] : a novel / by Smith Paul, Crystal,author.;
"When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between a cheating fiancé and the fallout from a controversial social media post, there are plenty. The truth behind Kitty's ascent to stardom from her beginnings in the segregated South threatens to expose a web of unexpected family ties, debts owed, and debatable crimes that could, with one pull, unravel the all-American fabric of the St. John sisters and those closest to them. As Elise digs deeper into Kitty's past, she must also turn the lens upon herself, confronting the gifts and burdens of her own choices and the power that the secrets of the dead hold over the living."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Novels.; Fiction.; African Americans; African American women; Sisters; Scandals; Celebrities; Passing (Identity);
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 12
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African Americans in the United States Army in World War II / by Booker, Bryan D.,1956-(CARDINAL)488273;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-355) and index.World War I -- Between the wars -- The African American press -- Combat service support units -- Women's Army Corps -- Artillery -- Tank destroyers -- Separate infantry regiments -- Paratroopers -- 2nd Cavalry and 93rd Infantry divisions -- 92nd Infantry Division -- Combat infantry replacements -- Armored forces -- Conclusion -- Appendix: the Medal of Honor."The political, economic and social landscapes of the United States in the early 1940s were split by one overriding factor--race. This volume explores the ways in which this extended to military forces and the impact that segregation had on World War II and second-class stigma which remained in spite of the proven valor of 'colored' units"--Back cover.
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; African American soldiers; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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