The Militant South, 1800-1861
Title | The Militant South, 1800-1861 PDF eBook |
Author | John Hope Franklin |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780252070693 |
Identifies the factors and causes of the South's festering propensity for aggression that contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. This title asserts that the South was dominated by militant white men who resorted to violence in the face of social, personal, or political conflict. It details the consequences of antebellum aggression.
The Militant South, 1800-1861
Title | The Militant South, 1800-1861 PDF eBook |
Author | John Hope Franklin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Militarism |
ISBN | 9780807054857 |
Beacon paperback, BP180 Includes bibliography.
The Militant South by John Hope Franklin
Title | The Militant South by John Hope Franklin PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Brown |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Southern States |
ISBN |
Death Blow to Jim Crow
Title | Death Blow to Jim Crow PDF eBook |
Author | Erik S. Gellman |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807869937 |
During the Great Depression, black intellectuals, labor organizers, and artists formed the National Negro Congress (NNC) to demand a "second emancipation" in America. Over the next decade, the NNC and its offshoot, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, sought to coordinate and catalyze local antiracist activism into a national movement to undermine the Jim Crow system of racial and economic exploitation. In this pioneering study, Erik S. Gellman shows how the NNC agitated for the first-class citizenship of African Americans and all members of the working class, establishing civil rights as necessary for reinvigorating American democracy. Much more than just a precursor to the 1960s civil rights movement, this activism created the most militant interracial freedom movement since Reconstruction, one that sought to empower the American labor movement to make demands on industrialists, white supremacists, and the state as never before. By focusing on the complex alliances between unions, civic groups, and the Communist Party in five geographic regions, Gellman explains how the NNC and its allies developed and implemented creative grassroots strategies to weaken Jim Crow, if not deal it the "death blow" they sought.
Race and History
Title | Race and History PDF eBook |
Author | John Hope Franklin |
Publisher | Lsu Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 1991-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807117644 |
Mirror to America
Title | Mirror to America PDF eBook |
Author | John Hope Franklin |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2007-04-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374707049 |
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915, he, like every other African American, could not help but participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened—once with lynching—and consistently subjected to racism's denigration of his humanity. Yet he managed to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard; become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution, Brooklyn College; and be appointed chair of the University of Chicago's history department and, later, John B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He has reshaped the way African American history is understood and taught and become one of the world's most celebrated historians, garnering over 130 honorary degrees. But Franklin's participation was much more fundamental than that. From his effort in 1934 to hand President Franklin Roosevelt a petition calling for action in response to the Cordie Cheek lynching, to his 1997 appointment by President Clinton to head the President's Initiative on Race, and continuing to the present, Franklin has influenced with determination and dignity the nation's racial conscience. Whether aiding Thurgood Marshall's preparation for arguing Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, marching to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, or testifying against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, Franklin has pushed the national conversation on race toward humanity and equality, a life long effort that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1995. Intimate, at times revelatory, Mirror to America chronicles Franklin's life and this nation's racial transformation in the twentieth century, and is a powerful reminder of the extent to which the problem of America remains the problem of color.
Way Up North in Louisville
Title | Way Up North in Louisville PDF eBook |
Author | Luther Adams |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 080783422X |
"Adams makes a splendid contribution to the historical literature of the post-World War II years in African American and U.S. urban and social history. Grounded in careful research from a variety of primary and secondary sources, this book advances a comp