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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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The Iowa State Bystander, 1894-1994
Author: The Iowa Bystander: a History of the First 25 Years
Author: Sally Steves CottenPublisher:
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Category : African American press
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The Iowa Bystander
Author: Elaine PattersonAnnals of Iowa
Author: Newspapers in Iowa History
Author: For Labor, Race, and Liberty
Author: Bruce L. MouserPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299249131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party’s nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Orphaned as a child at the peak of the Civil War, Taylor spent several years homeless before boarding a Mississippi riverboat that dropped him in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Taken in by an African American farm family, Taylor attended a private school and eventually rose to prominence as the owner/editor of a labor newspaper and as a vocal leader in Wisconsin’s People’s Party. At a time when many African Americans felt allegiance to the Republican Party for its support of abolition, Taylor’s sympathy with the labor cause drew him first to the national Democratic Party and then to an African American party, the newly formed National Liberty Party, which in 1904 named him its presidential candidate. Bruce L. Mouser follows Taylor’s life and career in Arkansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida, giving life to a figure representing a generation of African American idealists whose initial post-slavery belief in political and social equality in America gave way to the despair of the Jim Crow decades that followed. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association Second Place, Biography, Society of Midland Authors Honorable Mention, Benjamin F. Shambough Award, the State Historical Society of Iowa
N.W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual and Directory
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 1750
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Biennial Report of the Historical Department of Iowa
Author: Iowa. Historical DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Emancipation's Diaspora
Author: Leslie A. SchwalmPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807894125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. Emancipation's Diaspora follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens. Schwalm explores the hotly contested politics of black enfranchisement as well as collisions over segregation, civil rights, and the more informal politics of race--including how slavery and emancipation would be remembered and commemorated. She examines how gender shaped the politics of race, and how gender relations were contested and negotiated within the black community. Based on extensive archival research, Emancipation's Diaspora shows how in churches and schools, in voting booths and Masonic temples, in bustling cities and rural crossroads, black and white Midwesterners--women and men--shaped the local and national consequences of emancipation.
First[-Fifth] Biennial Report of the Historical Department of Iowa Made to the Trustees of the State Library
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Author: Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art DeptPublisher:
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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