Author: Charles Edward EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elk
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
An Authentic History of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Author: Charles Edward EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elk
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
All about the Order of Elks
Author: J. Herbert KleinPublisher: International Fa Publishing
ISBN: 9780615565613
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A fact- and photo-filled book about the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.).
An Account of the Origin and Early History of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the U.S.A
Author: Elks (Fraternal order)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Inventing American Tradition
Author: Jack David EllerPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789140358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
What really happened on the first Thanksgiving? How did a British drinking song become the US national anthem? And what makes Superman so darned American? Every tradition, even the noblest and most cherished, has a history, none more so than in the United States—a nation born with relative indifference, if not hostility, to the past. Most Americans would be surprised to learn just how recent (and controversial) the origins of their traditions are, as well as how those origins are often related to such divisive forces as the trauma of the Civil War or fears for American identity stemming from immigration and socialism. In pithy, entertaining chapters, Inventing American Tradition explores a set of beloved traditions spanning political symbols, holidays, lifestyles, and fictional characters—everything from the anthem to the American flag, blue jeans, and Mickey Mouse. Shedding light on the individuals who created these traditions and their motivations for promoting them, Jack David Eller reveals the murky, conflicted, confused, and contradictory history of emblems and institutions we very often take to be the bedrock of America. What emerges from this sideways take on our most celebrated Americanisms is the realization that all traditions are invented by particular people at particular times for particular reasons, and that the process of “traditioning” is forever ongoing—especially in the land of the free.
History of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, 1898-1954
Author: Charles Harris WesleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
What a Mighty Power We Can Be
Author: Theda SkocpolPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691190518
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
From the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, millions of American men and women participated in fraternal associations--self-selecting brotherhoods and sisterhoods that provided aid to members, enacted group rituals, and engaged in community service. Even more than whites did, African Americans embraced this type of association; indeed, fraternal lodges rivaled churches as centers of black community life in cities, towns, and rural areas alike. Using an unprecedented variety of secondary and primary sources--including old documents, pictures, and ribbon-badges found in eBay auctions--this book tells the story of the most visible African American fraternal associations. The authors demonstrate how African American fraternal groups played key roles in the struggle for civil rights and racial integration. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, white legislatures passed laws to outlaw the use of important fraternal names and symbols by blacks. But blacks successfully fought back. Employing lawyers who in some cases went on to work for the NAACP, black fraternalists took their cases all the way to the Supreme Court, which eventually ruled in their favor. At the height of the modern Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, they marched on Washington and supported the lawsuits through lobbying and demonstrations that finally led to legal equality. This unique book reveals a little-known chapter in the story of civic democracy and racial equality in America.
History of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, 1898-1954
Author: Charles H. WesleyPublisher: Assoc for the Study of African American Life and H
ISBN: 9780976811138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A reprint of Charles H. Wesley's classic history of one of the leading African American fraternal organizations, it tells the story of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of the World's struggle for community and equality during the height of segregation and white supremacy in the United States.
War Relief Work
Author: American Academy of Political and Social SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
John Brown to James Brown
Author: Edward MaliskasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780997677201
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The site from which John Brown led the raid on Harpers Ferry that ignited the Civil War, which led to the abolition of slavery, also became the virtual headquarters for the Black Elks fraternal organization and an important site on the venerable Chitlin' Circuit.
Author: Paul Clemmons