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Book Synopsis Black Voters Mattered: a Philadelphia Story by : W. Wilson Goode
Download or read book Black Voters Mattered: a Philadelphia Story written by W. Wilson Goode and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this book grew out of my deep appreciation for recorded history. I've learned that unless the facts are written, people will soon forget them. So it is important to document the history of the personalities and events that led to my election in1983 as the first African American mayor of Philadelphia, to properly record and connect events so that future generations will understand and appreciate our struggle and our achievements. This book attempts to connect some of the events and personalities of the U.S social and civil rights movements with the movement in the City of Philadelphia between 1968 and 1983 that resulted in a dramatic increase in Black political empowerment. While many of the individuals involved in these events were African Americans, there were also some non-African Americans who played crucial roles in bringing about the transformation. This book will attempt to chronicle all of their roles and put them in chronological order, so that those who read this in the future will know how these events took place.Those who read it will see that the Black pioneers who pursued public office in Philadelphia during this time were driven and purposeful, and committed to the agenda of empowering Black Philadelphians. They recognized that politics was not the end game, but rather a means to achieving genuine social change and equal justice.It is hoped that political scientists and students of history will especially find this book useful. While the book looks at some events before 1950, the preliminary period of 1950 to 1968 was critical in bringing about the transformation that took place between 1968 and 1983. For purposes of clarity, this book will discuss the major events of my administration and the administrations of Philadelphia's subsequent mayors from 1992 to 2014, in order to illustrate the evolution of Black empowerment in the city and how these mayors came to be elected. Philadelphia has had three African American mayors.
Author :Ife Williams (Professor of political science) Publisher :Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 13 :1666901555 Total Pages :301 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (669 download)
Book Synopsis Police Brutality by : Ife Williams (Professor of political science)
Download or read book Police Brutality written by Ife Williams (Professor of political science) and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Philadelphia as a case study, this book analyzes the evolution of predatory policing, attempts to curb aggressive practices, and the resultant chasm between reform efforts and the expansion of police discretion.
Download or read book Philadelphia written by Paul Kahan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, which draw tourists from far and wide to gain a better understanding of the nation’s founding. Philadelphians, too, value these same buildings and artifacts for the stories they tell about their city. But Philadelphia existed long before the Liberty Bell was first rung, and its history extends well beyond the American Revolution.In Philadelphia: A Narrative History, Paul Kahan presents a comprehensive portrait of the city, from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century. As any history of Philadelphia should, this book chronicles the people and places that make the city unique: from Independence Hall to Eastern State Penitentiary, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross to Cecil B. Moore and Cherelle Parker. Kahan also shows us how Philadelphia has always been defined by ethnic, religious, and racial diversity—from the seventeenth century, when Dutch, Swedes, and Lenapes lived side by side along the Delaware; to the nineteenth century, when the city was home to a vibrant community of free Black and formerly enslaved people; to the twentieth century, when it attracted immigrants from around the world. This diversity, however, often resulted in conflict, especially over access to public spaces. Those two themes— diversity and conflict— have shaped Philadelphia’s development and remain visible in the city’s culture, society, and even its geography. Understanding Philadelphia’s past, Kahan says, is key to envisioning future possibilities for the City of Brotherly Love.
Book Synopsis If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress by : James Wolfinger
Download or read book If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress written by James Wolfinger and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An edited collection exploring the development of African American political engagement in Philadelphia and how Philadelphia has served as a critical site for Black politics over the last century"--
Book Synopsis Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900 by : Roger Lane
Download or read book Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900 written by Roger Lane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lane offers a historical explanation for rising levels of black urban crime and family instability during a paradoxical era. Modern crime rates and patterns are shown to be products of a historical culture traceable from its formative years. The author charts Philadelphia's story but also makes suggestions about national and international patterns.
Book Synopsis William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours by : Roger Lane
Download or read book William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours written by Roger Lane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, formally free and increasingly urban, made the biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences that point to the possibility of change.
Book Synopsis Making it in 19th-century Urban America by : Bertram S. Brown
Download or read book Making it in 19th-century Urban America written by Bertram S. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 by : Absalom Jones
Download or read book A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 written by Absalom Jones and published by Eastern Acorn Press. This book was released on 1993-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Absalom Jones and Richard Allen were two formerly enslaved Africans who became community leaders and founders of Philadelphia's Free African Society. They wrote this gripping account refuting the misrepresentations of the role of blacks during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. One of the first pamphlets published in America by African Americans, their narrative sets the record straight about the many black citizens who heroically risked their lives during the epidemic that ravaged Philadelphia. Yellow fever was first diagnosed near Philadelphia's waterfront lte in the summer of 1793 and, in less than 100 days, some 10 percent of the city population lay dead. Under the leadership of Jones and Allen, Philadelphia's blacks courageously entered the homes of, and nursed, the hundreds of sick and dying when many of their neighbors were immobilized by fear"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Blam written by Sheena C. Howard and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high schooler bitten by a radioactive spider. A mighty Amazon wielding a lasso of truth. An African king imbued with a panther's essence. With decades of rich storytelling married to vibrant artwork, there is a reason the characters from comic books and graphic novels have become staples of popular culture. But sometimes the most dramatic, compelling characters are those from the pages of history, their only powers borne of humanity and moral clarity. Such was the case when an 18-year- old John Lewis arrived at college and came across Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, a comic book that told Dr. King's origin story and extolled the virtues of nonviolent resistance.Now, the graphic novel Black Lives Always Mattered! (BLAM!) has a chance to have a similarly inspirational effect on tomorrow's leaders by breathing life into the stories of some of Philadelphia's most influential African Americans of the 20th century like W.E.B. Du Bois, Marian Anderson, and Alain Locke. Temple University's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage are distributing BLAM! free of cost to high school students in The School District of Philadelphia. There is no greater gift we can give to the next generation than education.
Book Synopsis The Fight to Vote by : Michael Waldman
Download or read book The Fight to Vote written by Michael Waldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover, the word "right" has an x drawn over the letter "r" with the letter "f" above it.
Book Synopsis Black Politics In Phila by : Miriam Ershkowitz
Download or read book Black Politics In Phila written by Miriam Ershkowitz and published by . This book was released on 1973-09-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philadelphia Story written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philadelphia Says by : Moonstone Press
Download or read book Philadelphia Says written by Moonstone Press and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philadelphia Stories by : Samuel Otter
Download or read book Philadelphia Stories written by Samuel Otter and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historic and symbolic city on the border between slavery and freedom, antebellum Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the stage on which the possibilities of freedom would be tested and a post-slavery future would be played out for the nation. Philadelphia's charged setting produced a distinctive literary tradition that confronted issues of race, character, violence, and liberty. Verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation. The city's social experiments would have international consequences.This account of Philadelphia's literary history from 1790 to1860 brings together writers familiar (Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, John Edgar Wideman), lesser known (Hugh Henry Brackenridge, George Lippard, Frank J. Webb), and obscure (Mathew Carey, Robert Montgomery Bird, William Whipper, Joseph Willson). It draws on a host of diverse, often discounted expressive forms, from fever accounts and metempsychic fiction to caricatures and book covers.Samuel Otter's authoritative study considers the significance of geographical, social, and literary "place." It offers a model for thinking about the relationships between literature and history and among European-American and African-American writers. It challenges conventional narratives of American literary history. And finally, it establishes Philadelphia as fundamental to our understanding of not only the political but also the imaginative life of nineteenth-century America.
Book Synopsis A Handbook for Philadelphia Voters (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Augustus Brinley
Download or read book A Handbook for Philadelphia Voters (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Augustus Brinley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Handbook for Philadelphia Voters MY dear sir: I am pleased to learn that you are preparing a Handbook for Philadelphia Voters, and from the copy of its proposed contents, which I have before me, find that it will embrace all that is essential for voters to know. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Up South written by Matthew Countryman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up South documents the efforts of Philadelphia's Black Power activists to construct a vital and effective social movement combining analyses of racism with a program of grassroots community organizing in the context of the failure of civil rights liberalism to deliver on its promise of racial equality.
Book Synopsis The Philadelphia Negro by : W. E. B. Du Bois
Download or read book The Philadelphia Negro written by W. E. B. Du Bois and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a systematic investigation of social conditions in the seventh ward of Philadelphia. The product of those studies was the first great empirical book on the Negro in American society. More than one hundred years after its original publication by the University of Pennsylvania Press, The Philadelphia Negro remains a classic work. It is the first, and perhaps still the finest, example of engaged sociological scholarship—the kind of work that, in contemplating social reality, helps to change it. In his introduction, Elijah Anderson examines how the neighborhood studied by Du Bois has changed over the years and compares the status of blacks today with their status when the book was initially published.
