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Pass it on! / by Burgess, Gloria,1953-author.(CARDINAL)895535; Purnell, Gerald,illustrator.(CARDINAL)473425;
"As a young boy, Ernie (Earnest McEwen Jr.) dreamed of a better life for his family in the segregated South of the 1930s. More than anything, he wanted to go to college. While working as a janitor at Ol' Miss (the University of Mississippi), Ernie spoke to a professor about his burning desire to go to college, setting in motion a series of events that would change his and his family's life for all time. One of those significant events was meeting Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Faulkner. Faulkner helped Ernie attend college, paying for his tuition and expenses with no strings attached. His generous financial gift allowed Ernie to go to college, move out of the South, and eventually emerge from poverty. Ernie made a better life for his family, who continue to live a legacy of life-long learning and service, passing on their blessings to the next generation and the next, creating a ripple effect that will bless generations to come."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Informational works.; McEwen, Earnest, Jr.; Faulkner, William, 1897-1962; African Americans; African Americans; Charity;
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Teaching white supremacy : America's democratic ordeal and the forging of our national identity / by Yacovone, Donald,author.(CARDINAL)358722;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-402) and index.Introduction -- The Contours of White Supremacy -- "The White Republic Against the World": The Toxic Legacy of John H. Van Evrie -- From "Slavery" to "Servitude": Initial Patterns, 1832 to 1866 -- The Emancipationist Challenge, 1867 to 1883 -- Causes Lost and Found, 1883 to 1919 -- Educating for "Eugenicide" in the 1920s -- Lost Cause Victorious, 1920-1964 -- Renewing the Challenge -- Epilogue."A powerful, eagerly anticipated exploration (past and present) of white supremacy in the teachings of our national education system, its depth, breadth, and persistence-and how, through generations of our nation's most esteemed educators and textbooks, racism has been insidiously fostered-North and South-at all levels of learning. . In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated roots in our nation's education system in a fascinating, in-depth examination of America's wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks and other higher-ed course materials. Sifting through a wealth of materials, from the colonial era to today, Yacovone reveals the systematic ways in which white supremacist ideology has infiltrated American culture and how it has been at the heart of our collective national identity. Yacovone lays out the arc of America's white supremacy from the country's inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today's Black Lives Matter. And, the author argues that it is the North, not the South, that bears the greater responsibility for creating the dominant strain of race theory, inculcated throughout the culture and in school textbooks, that restricted and repressed African Americans and other minorities, even as Northerners blamed the South for its legacy of slavery, segregation and racial injustice"--
Subjects: Discrimination in education; White nationalism; Textbook bias; Racism in textbooks; Education; Education and state; Race discrimination;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 17
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Warm ashes : issues in southern history at the dawn of the twenty-first century / by Citadel Conference on the South(7th :2000 :Charleston, S.C.); Moore, Winfred B.,1949-(CARDINAL)154785; Sinisi, Kyle S.,1962-(CARDINAL)275413; White, David H.,1945-(CARDINAL)275412;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Clio at climax : apocalypse and the American Civil War / Emory M. Thomas -- A reassessment of the volume of the post-revolutionary foreign slave trade to North America, 1783-1810 / James McMillin -- "Old Miss sho' was good to us ... 'cause she was raisin' us to wuk for her" : widowed planters and paternalism in the Old South / Kirsten E. Wood -- In terror of their slaves : white Southern women's responses to slave insurrections and scares / Patrick H. Breen -- The southernization of Missouri : Kansas, the Civil War, and the politics of identity on the western border / Christopher Phillips -- Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and the national meaning of war / Brian R. Dirk -- The politics of language : the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction / Christopher Waldrep -- "The color of skin was almost forgotten" : Biracialism in the twentieth-century Southern religious experience / Paul Harvey -- "Doing contrary to my raing" : Emma Anderson Dunovant and the Woman Suffrage campaign in South Carolina / James O. Farmer, Jr. -- The shape of the movement to come : Women, religion, Episcopalians, and the interacial movement in 1920s South Carolina / Joan Marie Johnson -- Reconciliation and regionalism : reunion among Southern Methodists and Presbyterians, 1920-1955 / William R. Glass -- State v. William Darnell : the battle over de jure housing segregation in Progressive Era Winston-Salem / Michael E. Daly and John Wertheimer -- Higher education and the civil rights movement : desegregating the University of North Carolina / Peter Wallenstein -- Training for partial citizenship : Black military schools in the age of Jim Crow / Rod Andrew, Jr. --Black, white, and gray : the desegregation of the Citadel, 1963-1973 / Alexander S. Macaulay, Jr. -- Whispering consolation to generations unborn : Black memory in the Era of Jim Crow / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Memorializing the movement : the struggle to build civil rights museums in the South / Glenn T. Eskew -- The ambivalent South / Sheldon Hackney.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; Group identity;
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Princess of the Hither Isles : a black suffragist's story from the Jim Crow south / by Alexander, Adele Logan,1938-author.(CARDINAL)203972;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-358) and index.Legacies -- The people who can fly -- Susan's stories -- The Hunts' war -- School days -- Trains, rains, pedagogy, and savagery -- The Hither Isles -- Vanished -- Obstreperous women -- Of the genius and training of black folk -- Up from slavery, off to the white house -- Minds, bodies, and souls -- Recalled to life -- Live not on evil -- Reckless and insubordinate -- The princess and the pen -- Firestorm -- Exile -- Flight -- After the fall -- "What a strange thing is 'race' and family, stranger still".A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination. Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute but also joined the segregated woman suffrage movement, passing for white in order to fight for the rights of people of color. Her determination-as a wife, mother, scholar, and activist -to challenge the draconian restraints of race and gender generated conflicts that precipitated her tragic demise. Historian Adele Logan Alexander-Adella Hunt Logan's granddaughter-portrays Adella, her family, and contemporaries such as Booker T. Washington, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, George Washington Carver, Theodore Roosevelt, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Alexander bridges the chasms that frustrate efforts to document the lives of those who traditionally have been silenced, weaving together family lore, historical research, and literary imagination into a riveting, multigenerational family saga.
Subjects: Biographies.; Logan, Adella Hunt, 1863-1915.; African American educators; Suffragists; African American feminists; African American women; Minority women in higher education; Women; Suffragettes.; Women.; Womyn.;
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Young, gifted and diverse : origins of the new Black elite / by Charles, Camille Zubrinsky,1965-author.; Kramer, Rory,1981-author.; Massey, Douglas S.,author.(CARDINAL)188643; Torres, Kimberly C.,1975-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Black diversity in historical perspective -- Origins of the new black elite -- Experiences of segregation -- Identities and attitudes -- Pathways to elite education -- Campus social experiences -- Downsides of upward mobility -- Emerging elite identities -- Leaks in the pipeline -- Expanding intersectionality -- Appendix A: Estimates of multivariate models showing independent effects of dimensions of diversity on collegiate outcomes -- Appendix B: In-depth interviewees and their background characteristics -- Appendix C: Guide used for semi-structured in-depth interviews -- Appendix D: Focus group conversation guide."Contemporary research on Black Americans has focused mainly on the plight of the poor and paid little attention to internal variation and status differentiation in the broader Black community. In Divergent Currents, the authors explore the backgrounds and experiences of an understudied subset of the Black population in the U.S.: the Black Elite. Although the descendants of enslaved Africans, the children of immigrants, and the offspring of intermarried parents have all contributed to the great diversityof the new Black elite, its otherwise heterogeneous members generally share one trait in common: the possession of a college degree, often from a very selective institution. Given that a college education is essential for advancement in today's globalized, knowledge-based economy, the college campus is now the crucible for elite class formation, no less for Blacks than other social groups. The authors draw on a unique source of data to study the new Black elite in the process of formation at 28 selectiveinstitutions of higher education. The baseline survey gathered comprehensive data on subjects' social origins, including detailed information about the family, school, and neighborhoods they inhabited at ages 6, 13, and as seniors in high school, as wellas data on their personal perceptions, values, aspirations, and attitudes. This survey data is paired with 78 in-depth interviews with Black undergraduates at two competitive institutions and eleven focus group sessions with 75 students at an Ivy League university. The authors identify and explore seven dimensions of Black diversity (racial identification, skin tone, nativity, generation, region of origin, gender, social class, and prior experiences of segregation). They ultimately aim to understand how intraracial diversity complicates traditional notions of race, class, and social mobility in the new Black professional class"--
Subjects: African American college students; African American college students; African American college students; Elite (Social sciences); African Americans;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Young and restless : the girls who sparked America's revolutions / by Kahn, Mattie,author.(CARDINAL)866547;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-329) and index.Material girls ;Dreamers and schemers at the dawn of a labor movement -- The mouth on that girl ;Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and a nation at war -- See me ;A girl's battle for women's suffrage -- Bad girls ;Troublemakers and the Civil Rights Movement -- Lost leaders ;The movement's invisible girls -- Cliques ;Female friendship and freedom -- Talking bodies ;Sex and single girls in second-wave feminism -- Good girls ;Crusaders in miniskirts adn the right to an education -- Look at me now ;Tinker, tailor, and the aesthetics of a movement -- In her feelings ; Girlhood at the end of the world -- Stream of consciousness ;How girls use thier voices."The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girls Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage, led up Fifth Ave in Manhattan, not by Susan B. Anthony, but by a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better known movements for workers' rights began, over 1,500 girls--some as young as ten--walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation's first-ever labor strikes. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true history of major social movements in America reveals their might: They have kicked off almost every single one. Young and Restless tells the story of one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the Averican Revolution itself to the civil rights movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women's liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how teen girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them. Their stories illuminate how much we owe to teen girls throughout the generations, what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices, and, crucially, what we can all stand to learn from them"--
Subjects: Teenage girls; Social movements; Social movements.;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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My soul is a witness : a chronology of the civil rights era 1954-1965 / by Collier-Thomas, Bettye,author.(CARDINAL)201807; Franklin, V. P.(Vincent P.),1947-(CARDINAL)321532;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-249) and index."A powerful and inspiring record of one of the most significant periods in America's history, which presents the full historic scope of the hard-fought battle for civil rights. From the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which legal segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional, to the Nashville sit-ins organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and from the Freedom Rides to the March on Washington, to the subsequent passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965-and covering everything in between-My Soul Is a Witness is the first comprehensive chronology of the civil rights era in America. This unique chronology extends the examination of civil rights activities beyond the South to include the North, Midwest, and Far West. Although Martin Luther King, Jr., was a towering figure during the era, the authors shift the focus to the thousands of people, places, and events that encompassed the Civil Rights movement. Each entry is based on information found in articles and reports published in three newspaper and periodical sources: The New York Times, Jet Magazine, and the Southern School News. Supplementing the basic chronology are longer features that explore larger topics in more depth and highlight issues well-known at the time but unknown today by scholars and the general public." --
Subjects: Chronologies.; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
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Keep your airspeed up : the story of a Tuskegee airman / by Brown, Harold H.,1924-author.(CARDINAL)351571; Bordner, Marsha S.,1950-author.(CARDINAL)351570;
Includes bibliographical references and index.List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Early Years; 1. My Family and Ancestry; 2. My Early Life in Minnesota; 3. My Love Affair with a Plane; 4. Bubba's Experience in the Military; Part II. The War Years; 5. I Just Wanted to Fly; 6. Flight Training: In the Air at Last; 7. The Transition to War; 8. The Trip Overseas and Commander B.O. Davis; 9. The Air Forces, the P-51, and Ramitelli Air Field; 10. Combat; 11. December 1944; 12. January to February 1945; 13. March 1945; 14. Nuremberg; 15. The March to Moosburg; 16. Liberation; 17. Going Home; Part III. The Postwar Years; 18. To Stay or Not to Stay; 19. The Future Unfolds; 20. The Korean War; 21. Strategic Air Command; 22. Crises in America and My Decision to Leave the Military; 23. A New Career in Higher Education; 24. Fame; 25. Giving Back; 26. Breaking Par; 27. The Fourth Quarter; Notes; Index.Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman is the memoir of an African American man who, through dedication to his goals and vision, rose through the despair of racial segregation to great heights of accomplishment, not only as a military aviator, but also as an educator and as an American citizen. Unlike other historical and autobiographical portrayals of Tuskegee airmen, Harold H. Brown's memoir is told from its beginnings: not on the first day of combat, not on the first day of training, but at the very moment Brown realized he was meant to be a pilot. He revisits his childhood in Minneapolis where his fascination with planes pushed him to save up enough of his own money to take flying lessons. Brown also details his first trip to the South, where he was met with a level of segregation he had never before experienced and had never imagined possible. During the 1930s and 1940s, longstanding policies of racial discrimination were called into question as it became clear that America would likely be drawn into World War II. The military reluctantly allowed for the development of a flight-training program for a limited number of African Americans on a segregated base in Tuskegee, Alabama. The Tuskegee Airmen, as well as other African Americans in the armed forces, had the unique experience of fighting two wars at once: one against Hitler's fascist regime overseas and one against racial segregation at home. Colonel Brown fought as a combat pilot with the 332nd Fighter Group during World War II, and was captured and imprisoned in Stalag VII A in Moosburg, Germany, where he was liberated by General George S. Patton on April 29, 1945. Upon returning home, Brown noted with acute disappointment that race relations in the United States hadn't changed. It wasn't until 1948 that the military desegregated, which many scholars argue would not have been possible without the exemplary performance of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Brown, Harold H., 1924-; United States. Army Air Forces. Fighter Squadron, 99th; Fighter pilots; African American air pilots; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Young, triumphant, and black : overcoming the tyranny of segregated minds in desegregated schools / by Grantham, Tarek C.(CARDINAL)397037; Harmon, Deborah A.(CARDINAL)471109; Trotman Scott, Michelle Frazier.(CARDINAL)613988;
"Many educators struggle to meet the needs of gifted Black students because they know little about their experiences at school and at home. What are the experiences of gifted Black students in desegregated predominantly White schools? How do gifted Black students survive and thrive in de facto segregated Black schools? What barriers faced by gifted Black students from predominantly Black neighborhoods must be torn down? How do culturally responsive parents, teachers, and other educators confront racism and discrimination that impact gifted Black students? Young, Triumphant, and Black: Overcoming the Tyranny of Segregated Minds in Desegregated Schools offers answers to these important questions by sharing the lived experiences of gifted Black students from different backgrounds. Compelling personal narratives and biographical accounts reveal the triumph of gifted Black students as they and their families confront segregated minds in desegregated racially divisive institutions." --
Subjects: Academic achievement; African American students.; African Americans; Discrimination in education; Gifted children; Segregation in education;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Life upon these shores : looking at African American history, 1513-2008 / by Gates, Henry Louis,Jr.(CARDINAL)162666;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-455) and index.Origins, 1513-1760. African slaves, African conquistadors ; Origins of North American slavery ; From red to black slavery ; First Africans and the growth of northern slavery ; Royal African Company ; Early misgivings ; Fear and resistance ; Inoculation ; Fort Mose : a different trajectory -- Forging freedom, 1760-1804. First blooms ; Crispus Attucks and the freedom struggle ; Colored patriots ; The king's freedom ; Declaring independence ; Unleashing freedom ; Freedom, technology ; and king cotton ; Establishing freedom ; Creating a black Atlantic ; Toussaint! -- "It shall ever be our duty to vindicate our brethren," 1800-1834. Tracing the trade ; End of the slave trade in Britain and the United States, 1807 and 1808 ; Serving freedom in the War of 1812 ; Yarrow Mamout by Charles Wilson Peale and the rise of a people ; Colonization and Liberia ; "A fire bell in the night" ; Freedom's Journal and Walker's Appeal ; The Liberator and William Lloyd Garrison ; Nat Turner ; The founding of the American Anti-slavery Society and Maria Stewart ; British emancipation -- Race and resistance, 1834-1850. Oberlin College ; Magician and ventriloquist ; Julia Chinn ; An uncompromising talent ; Opposing black freedom ; The Amistad and the Creole ; Finding freedom in Massachusetts ; Frederick Douglass ; Crosscurrents of 1848 : French abolition and the Pearl ; Rush for gold ; Harriet Tubman, American icon ; The Roberts case and the birth of Jim Crow -- Emergence, 1850-1860. The new Fugitive Slave Law ; Resisting the Fugitive Slave Law ; Martin R. Delany and Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Institute for Colored Youth ; The Black Swan ; Clotel, or, The President's daughter, and Colored patriots of the American Revolution ; Anthony Burns ; John Mercer Langston and the bar of justice ; Berea College and Wilberforce University ; Dred Scott ; Our Nig -- War and its meaning, 1859-1865. Harpers Ferry ; "This is a white man's war!" ; Contraband ; The Port Royal experiment ; "An act for the release of certain persons held to service, or labor in the District of Columbia" ; Robert Smalls and the Planter ; President Lincoln and colonization ; First in the field ; Emancipation Proclamation ; Carnival of fury ; The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment ; Fort Pillow ; Extraordinary heroism : New Market Heights ; Defending rights in the midst of war ; Fruit of a bitter harvest : the Thirteenth Amendment ; First black voice in Congress ; Bureau of Refugees, Freemen and Abandoned Lands ; Freedman's Bank ; The Lincoln assassination -- Reconstructing a nation, 1866-1877. Formation of the Ku Klux Klan ; Civil Rights Act of 1866 ; Murder in Memphis, 1866 ; Fourteenth Amendment and black citizenship ; Reconstruction and black higher education ; Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution ; African American diplomats ; Hiram Rhodes Revels ; Blanche K. Bruce, Robert Smalls, and African Americans in Congress ; Harvard and Yale, 1870 and 1876 ; Civil Rights Act of 1871 : the Ku Klux Klan Act ; The decline of civil rights, 1875-1883 ; Fisk University Jubilee Singers ; Charlotte Ray ; U. S. Supreme Court and the Fourteenth Amendment : the slaughterhouse cases ; The Catholic Healys ; Convict lease ; End of reconstruction and ho for Kansas! -- "There is no Negro problem," 1877-1895. Black frontierspeople and cowboys ; The inventive Lewis H. Latimer ; Knights of Labor and Colored Farmers' Alliance ; Education and philanthropy in the nineteenth century ; Major league baseball and Jim Crow ; Mississippi Plan and black disenfranchisement ; Provident Hospital and Dr. Daniel Hale Williams ; Ida B. Wells-Barnett and lynching ; The World's Columbian Exposition and The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner ; W. E. B. Du Bois and Harvard University -- New Negro, old problem, 1895-1900. Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition ; Plessy v. Ferguson ; The National Association of Colored Women and the American Negro Academy ; Wilmington, North Carolina, race riot of"Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama. Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images--ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters--Life Upon These Shores focuses on defining events, debates, and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure. Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation. By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience." Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination"--
Subjects: Illustrated works.; African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 34 / Total copies: 39
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