Author: Giles R. WrightPublisher: New Jersey Historical Commission
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Afro-Americans in New Jersey
Author: Giles R. WrightPublisher: New Jersey Historical Commission
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Small Towns, Black Lives
Author: Wendel A. WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This project became available online in 1995 as "The Cemetery." The site was an attempt to provide access to my earliest artworks that addressed history, memory, and memorial within the African American community. In the late 1990's the web project evolved to include a wider range of works and the project title became "Small Towns, Black Lives." To coincide with a large survey exhibition and the publication of the book version of the project, I created the final version of the web project in 2002.
The Negro Motorist Green Book
Author: Victor H. GreenPublisher: Colchis Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century.
The New Negro in the Old South
Author: Gabriel A. BriggsPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813574803
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Standard narratives of early twentieth-century African American history credit the Great Migration of southern blacks to northern metropolises for the emergence of the New Negro, an educated, upwardly mobile sophisticate very different from his forebears. Yet this conventional history overlooks the cultural accomplishments of an earlier generation, in the black communities that flourished within southern cities immediately after Reconstruction. In this groundbreaking historical study, Gabriel A. Briggs makes the compelling case that the New Negro first emerged long before the Great Migration to the North. The New Negro in the Old South reconstructs the vibrant black community that developed in Nashville after the Civil War, demonstrating how it played a pivotal role in shaping the economic, intellectual, social, and political lives of African Americans in subsequent decades. Drawing from extensive archival research, Briggs investigates what made Nashville so unique and reveals how it served as a formative environment for major black intellectuals like Sutton Griggs and W.E.B. Du Bois. The New Negro in the Old South makes the past come alive as it vividly recounts little-remembered episodes in black history, from the migration of Colored Infantry veterans in the late 1860s to the Fisk University protests of 1925. Along the way, it gives readers a new appreciation for the sophistication, determination, and bravery of African Americans in the decades between the Civil War and the Harlem Renaissance.
Scarlet and Black
Author: Marisa J. FuentesNew Negro, Old Left
Author: William J. MaxwellPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231114257
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Maxwell uncovers both black literature's debt to Communism and Communism's debt to black literature, reciprocal obligations first incurred during the Harlem Renaissance.
Black New Jersey
Author: Graham Russell HodgesPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813595185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Black New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimination. Extensively researched, it shines a light on New Jersey's unique African American history and reveals how the state's black citizens helped to shape the nation.
The New Negro
Author: Alain LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
If These Stones Could Talk
Author: Elaine BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cemeteries have stories to tell and lessons from the past that we can draw upon. If These Stones Could Talk brings fresh light to a forgotten corner of American history that begins in a small cemetery in central New Jersey.
Islam Among Urban Blacks
Author: Michael NashPublisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Incorporated/Bloomsbury
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This book examines the evolution of Muslim community development in Newark, New Jersey. It is an historical account of the efforts of a diverse community that over several decades grappled with the challenge of establishing a respected place for their Islamic lifestyle within the United States. Further, it is a story linked closely to the experience of African Americans who have claimed Islam as their religion and struggled to create and to maintain an identity in the social fabric of Newark's twentieth-century Black religious culture. The complexities of race, identity, inter-religious and intra-religious relations are the four central themes explored.