Author: North Carolina Historical CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission
Author: North Carolina Historical CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Museum Echoes
Author: Ohio State MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Transformation of American Abolitionism
Author: Richard S. NewmanPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080786045X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked steadily to eliminate slavery and racial injustice, and their tactics and strategies constantly evolved. Tracing the development of the abolitionist movement from the 1770s to the 1830s, Richard Newman focuses particularly on its transformation from a conservative lobbying effort into a fiery grassroots reform cause. What began in late-eighteenth-century Pennsylvania as an elite movement espousing gradual legal reform began to change in the 1820s as black activists, female reformers, and nonelite whites pushed their way into the antislavery movement. Located primarily in Massachusetts, these new reformers demanded immediate emancipation, and they revolutionized abolitionist strategies and tactics--lecturing extensively, publishing gripping accounts of life in bondage, and organizing on a grassroots level. Their attitudes and actions made the abolition movement the radical cause we view it as today.
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
Book Description
Guide to Reprints
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Freedom's Teacher
Author: Katherine Mellen CharronPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In this vibrantly written biography, Katherine Charron demonstrates Clark's crucial role--and the role of many black women teachers--in making education a cornerstone of the twentieth-century freedom struggle. Using Clark's life as a lens, Charron sheds valuable new light on southern black women's activism in national, state, and judicial politics, from the Progressive Era to the civil rights movement and beyond.
Library Journal
Author: Melvil DeweyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
The Southern Historian
Author: Freedom's Teacher, Enhanced Ebook
Author: Katherine Mellen CharronPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807837601
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987) developed a citizenship education program that enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to register to vote and to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. Clark, who began her own teaching career in 1916, grounded her approach in the philosophy and practice of southern black activist educators in the decades leading up to the 1950s and 1960s, and then trained a committed cadre of grassroots black women to lead this literacy revolution in community stores, beauty shops, and churches throughout the South. In this engaging biography, Katherine Charron tells the story of Clark, from her coming of age in the South Carolina lowcountry to her activism with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the movement's heyday. The enhanced electronic version of the book draws from archives, libraries, and the author's personal collection and includes nearly 100 letters, documents, photographs, newspaper articles, and interview excerpts, embedding each in the text where it will be most meaningful. Featuring more than 60 audio clips (more than 2.5 hours total) from oral history interviews with 15 individuals, including Clark herself, the enhanced e-book redefines the idea of the "talking book." Watch the video below to see a demonstration of the enhanced ebook: