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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Report on the Activities, , Senate Rpt. 114-7, March 31, 2015, 113-1&2
Author: Report on the Activities, , Senate Rpt. 114-7, March 31, 2015, 113-1&2
Author: Review of Legislative Activity During the 113th Congress, Senate Rpt. 114-31, April 14, 2015, 114-1
Author: Review of Legislative Activity During the 113th Congress, Senate Rpt. 114-11, April 13, 2015, 114-1
Author: Review of Legislative Activity During the ... Congress, Senate Rpt. 114-31, 113th Congress (2013-2014), April 14, 2015, 114-1
Author: Review of Legislative Activity During the 113th Congress, Senate Rpt. 114-31, April 14, 2015, 114-1
Author: Review of Legislative Activity, ... Senate Report 114-11, April 13, 2015, 114-1
Author: Hubert Harrison
Author: Jeffrey B. PerryPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231552424
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The St. Croix–born, Harlem-based Hubert Harrison (1883–1927) was a brilliant writer, orator, educator, critic, and activist who combined class consciousness and anti-white-supremacist race consciousness into a potent political radicalism. Harrison’s ideas profoundly influenced “New Negro” militants, including A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey, and his work is a key link in the two great strands of the Civil Rights/Black Liberation struggle: the labor- and civil-rights movement associated with Randolph and Martin Luther King Jr. and the race and nationalist movement associated with Garvey and Malcolm X. In this second volume of his acclaimed biography, Jeffrey B. Perry traces the final decade of Harrison’s life, from 1918 to 1927. Perry details Harrison’s literary and political activities, foregrounding his efforts against white supremacy and for racial consciousness and unity in struggles for equality and radical social change. The book explores Harrison’s role in the militant New Negro Movement and the International Colored Unity League, as well as his prolific work as a writer, educator, and editor of the New Negro and the Negro World. Perry examines Harrison’s interactions with major figures such as Garvey, Randolph, J. A. Rogers, Arthur Schomburg, and other prominent individuals and organizations as he agitated, educated, and organized for democracy and equality from a race-conscious, radical internationalist perspective. This magisterial biography demonstrates how Harrison’s life and work continue to offer profound insights on race, class, religion, immigration, war, democracy, and social change in America.
Mrs. Dred Scott
Author: Lea VanderVeldePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199887853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. A remarkable piece of historical detective work, Mrs. Dred Scott chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis, through the eleven years of legal wrangling that ended with the high court's notorious decision. The book not only recovers her story, but also reveals that Harriet may well have been the lynchpin in this pivotal episode in American legal history. Reconstructing Harriet Scott's life through innovative readings of journals, military records, court dockets, and even frontier store ledgers, VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is at once a rich portrait of slave life, an engrossing legal drama, and a provocative reassessment of a central event in U.S. constitutional history. More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including the status of women, slaves, Free Blacks, and Native Americans.
Government Publications and the Government World
Author: Mary C. GreathousePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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