Author: Benjamin Calvin Wilson
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: Martin J. Hershock
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821415131
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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"Martin Hershock traces the ways in which all classes in the state of Michigan found themselves simultaneously attracted to the enticements of the new world of the market and repulsed by its excess and instability. The Paradox of Progress is a study of Michigan history and politics as well as an analysis of the factors underlying the history of the GOP and its evolution from the party that supported the antislavery movement, free soil, free labor, and Lincoln the Rail-Splitter into the party of Mark Hanna, J.P. Morgan, and William McKinley."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author: Randal Maurice Jelks
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252073479
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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African Americans in the Furniture City is unique not only in terms of its subject, but also for its framing of the African American struggle for survival, civil rights, and community inside a discussion of the larger white community. Examining the African-American community of Grand Rapids, Michigan between 1850 and 1954, Randal Maurice Jelks uncovers the ways in which its members faced urbanization, responded to structural racism, developed in terms of occupations, and shaped their communal identities. Focusing on the intersection of African Americans' nineteenth-century cultural values and the changing social and political conditions in the first half of the twentieth century, Jelks pays particularly close attention to the religious community's influence during their struggle toward a respectable social identity and fair treatment under the law. He explores how these competing values defined the community's politics as it struggled to expand its freedoms and change its status as a subjugated racial minority.

Author: Richard J. Hathaway
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Throughout Michigan's varied and fascinating history, its people have been leaders. They have led the nation in the production of automobiles, iron and copper, lumber, and many agricultural products. Of even grater importance, Michigan citizens have been leaders in the movement for equitable working condicitons, civil rights, and a clean environment.

Author: Benjamin C. Wilson
Publisher: New Issues Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: R. J. Young
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815318675
Category : African American civil rights workers
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: George Newman Fuller
Publisher:
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Author: Marcia Renee Sawyer
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Category : African American farmers
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Author: James M. Anderson
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Category : Armenians
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Patrick Rael
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875031
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions. In so doing, he reveals the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century. He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and successfully galvanize the race against slavery.