Author: Leslie K. Best
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
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Publisher: Becslie Publisher
ISBN: 0974559512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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A Heritage of Black Excellence BOOK 1 (1700's to 1960's) is an activity workbook that incorporates language arts, science, and social studies while presenting POSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLE MODELS. The book consist of motivational reading passages with writing, comprehension,and vocabulary pages to enhance reading skills. Book includes: Jean Baptiste DuSable, Robert Abbott, Lorraine Hansberry, Daniel Hale Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and others ..... Recommended for all ages

Author: Dr. Leslie K. Best
Publisher: Becslie Publisher
ISBN: 0974559520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 75

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A Heritage of Black Excellence Book Two is an activity workbook that incorporate language arts, science, and social studies while giving children POSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLE MODELS from the 1700 s to 2000s. The book consist of motivational reading passages with writing, comprehension, and vocabulary pages to enhance reading skills. The activity book includes Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Dr.Daniel Hale Williams, John H. Johnson, Michael Jordan,Dr. Mae Jemison, Oprah Winfey, Jessie Owens and more. Recommended for all ages

Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547020280
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Zahrah, a timid thirteen-year-old girl, undertakes a dangerous quest into the Forbidden Greeny Jungle to seek the antidote for her best friend after he is bitten by a snake, and finds knowledge, courage, and hidden powers along the way.

Author: Odie Hawkins
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504035666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Chicago, the center of America’s heartland, from its founding in the late 1700s by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a French-educated black man, to the modern day Gypsies who live on Maxwell Street. It’s a city steeped in Black History. This is the story of a city where a unique African American history has grown, a center for the emergence of jazz, blues, dance, art, and the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Author: Adam Green
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226306410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Black Chicagoans were at the centre of a national movement in the 1940s and '50s, when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. Green argues that this period engendered a unique cultural and commercial consciousness, fostering ideas of racial identity that remain influential.

Author: Christopher Robert Reed
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826264602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements in the Windy City, encompassing a range of activities and events that span the antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction periods. The author takes us from a time when black Chicago provided both workers and soldiers for the Union cause to the ensuing decades that saw the rise and development of a stratified class structure and growth in employment, politics, and culture. Just as the city was transformed in its first century of existence, so were its black inhabitants. Methodologically relying on the federal pension records of Civil War soldiers at the National Archives, as well as previously neglected photographic evidence, manuscripts, contemporary newspapers, and secondary sources, Reed captures the lives of Chicago’s vast army of ordinary black men and women. He places black Chicagoans within the context of northern urban history, providing a better understanding of the similarities and differences among them. We learn of the conditions African Americans faced before and after Emancipation. We learn how the black community changed and developed over time: we learn how these people endured—how they educated their children, how they worked, organized, and played. Black Chicago’s First Century is a balanced and coherent work. Anyone with an interest in urban history or African American studies will find much value in this book.

Author: Paul Louis Street
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742540828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Anti-black racism is a stark presence in Chicago, a fact illustrated by significant racial inequality in and around contemporary "global" city. Drawing his work as a civil rights advocate and investigator in Chicago, Street explains this neo-liberal apartheid and its resulting disparity in terms of persistently and deeply racist societal and institutional practices and policies. Racial Oppression in the Black Metropolis uses the highly relevant historical and sociological laboratory that is Chicago in order to explain the racist societal and institutional practices and policies which still typify the United States. Street challenges dominant neoconservative explanations of the black urban crisis that emphasize personal irresponsibility and cultural failure. Looking to the other side of the ideological isle, he criticizes liberal and social democratic approaches that elevate class over race and challenges many observers' sharp distinction between present and so-called past racism. In questioning the supposedly inevitable reign of urban-neoliberaism, Street also investigates the real, racial politics of the United States and finds that parties and ideologies matter little on matters of race. This innovative work in urban history and cultural criticism will inform contemporary social science and policy debates for years to come.

Author: Richard A. Courage
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252043055
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life. Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliations, and public lives and achievements of black writers, journalists, visual artists, dance instructors, and other creators working in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Organized chronologically, the chapters unearth transformative forces that supported the emergence of individuals and social networks dedicated to work in arts and letters. The result is an illuminating scholarly collaboration that remaps African American intellectual and cultural geography and reframes the concept of urban black renaissance. Contributors: Richard A. Courage, Mary Jo Deegan, Brenda Ellis Fredericks, James C. Hall, Bonnie Claudia Harrison, Darlene Clark Hine, John McCluskey Jr., Amy M. Mooney, Christopher Robert Reed, Clovis E. Semmes, Margaret Rose Vendryes, and Richard Yarborough

Author: Lionel Kimble
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809334267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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During the "Great Migration" of the 1920s and 1930s, southern African Americans flocked to the South Side Chicago community of Bronzeville. The area soon became the epicentre of community activism as workingclass African Americans struggled for equality in housing and employment. Lionel Kimble Jr. demonstrates how these struggles led to much of the civil rights activism that occurred from 1935 to 1955 in Chicago.