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Talladega Days: The Biography of William H. Brummit, M.D., Civil Rights Activist, Forgotten Legend and KKK Survivor

Author : Houston Brummit
Publisher : Go to Publish
ISBN 13 : 9781647490997
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Talladega Days: The Biography of William H. Brummit, M.D., Civil Rights Activist, Forgotten Legend and KKK Survivor written by Houston Brummit and published by Go to Publish. This book was released on 2020-05-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALLADEGA DAYS is an intriguing biography of a complex, nineteenth century man who presented at least three faces to the world: a public face of hard-earned competency and at least two private faces of varying degrees of intimacy and supportiveness to what might be characterized as "family." The story is set against the background of hard times in an agrarian, segregated South, and a countervailing, but quite possibly, equally racist North. Dr. Houston Brummit's recounting of the life and times of Dr. William Brummit is interspersed with personal interpretations of historic events-including his Ku Klux Klan assault and abduction. This one, resurrected life gives those of us who wonder about post-racial America time to reflect on the extraordinary spirit of those Americans of color, like William H. Brummit, who, in spite of their own failings and the threats made to their lives and liberties, insisted upon respect despite the devastating cost. -CLAUDEWELL S. THOMAS, M.D., MPH Professor Emeritus Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Distinguished Life Fellow Drawing on public sources, oral history, and a rich trove of personal correspondence, Brummit reveals the struggles and triumphs of a family deeply affected by the racial hierarchy of the early twentieth century South but not broken by it. The life of the author's grandfather, William H. Brummit, reminds us that even during the "nadir of American race relations," African Americans vigorously pursued equality, maintaining their dignity and often achieving success in a social environment built upon and structured to preserve a belief in Black inferiority. -JACQUELINE AKINS, PH.D. Chair, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion Studies Community College of Philadelphia Houston Brummit's genealogy provides a visual storyline of his 1869 patrilineal connection to his grandfather, Dr. William H. Brummit; his slave roots in Talladega, Alabama; and his grandfather's resultant escape to Chicago, Illinois, at the provocation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1924. Captured in monologues rather than literary prose style, TALLADEGA DAYS is valuable in its chronology, oral history, and cinematic currency. Not since Alex Haley's Roots has an author given voice to an ancestry that records a family's scope of humanity on the American landscape from both sides of the social and color spectrum. Not only does Brummit lay a framework for a screenplay that balances the scales on entertainment's view of American black life, but also, his ancestral voices provide a paradigmatic shift from what the industry has come to accept as traditional events in black life. And in this shift, we find a biography that is accessible to a universal audience. -TY COLLINS, BA, MFA Independent producer/director, South Carolina Film Commission Member of the Charleston Jazz Initiative/Avery Institute-College of Charleston

Talladega Days

Author : Houston Brummit
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440182698
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Talladega Days written by Houston Brummit and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TALLADEGA DAYSRace, Rural Life, and Memories of a Forgotten Legend and KKK Survivor is an intriguing biography of a complex, nineteenth century man who presented at least three faces to the world: a public face of hard-earned competency and at least two private faces of varying degrees of intimacy and supportiveness to what might be characterized as family. The story is set against the background of hard times in an agrarian, segregated South and a countervailing, but quite possibly, equally racist North. Dr. Houston Brummits recounting of the life and times of Dr. William Brummit is interspersed with personal interpretations of historic eventsincluding his Ku Klux Klan assault and abduction. This one, resurrected life gives those of us who wonder about post-racial America time to reflect on the extraordinary spirit of those Americans of color, like William H. Brummit, who, in spite of their own failings and the threats made to their lives and liberties, insisted upon respect despite the devastating cost. CLAUDEWELL S. THOMAS, M.D., MPH Professor Emeritus Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences David Geff en School of Medicine, UCLA Distinguished Life Fellow Drawing on public sources, oral history, and a rich trove of personal correspondence, Brummit revealsthe struggles and triumphs of a family deeply aff ected by the racial hierarchy of the early twentieth century South but not broken by it. Th e life of the authors grandfather, William H. Brummit, reminds us that even during the nadir of American race relations, African Americans vigorously pursued equality, maintaining their dignity and often achieving success in a social environment built upon and structured to preserve a belief in Black inferiority. JACQUELINE AKINS, PH.D. Chair, Department of History, Philosophy and Religion Studies Community College of Philadelphia Houston Brummits genealogy provides a visual storyline of his 1869 patrilineal connection to his grandfather, Dr. William H. Brummit; his slave roots in Talladega, Alabama; and his grandfathers resultant escape to Chicago, Illinois, at the provocation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1924. Captured in monologues rather than literary prose style, TALLADEGA DAYS is valuable in its chronology, oral history, and cinematic currency. Not since Alex Haleys Roots has an author given voice to an ancestry that records a familys scope of humanity on the American landscape from both sides of the social and color spectrum. Not only does Brummit lay a framework for a screenplay that balances the scales on entertainments view of American black life, but also, his ancestral voices provide a paradigmatic shift from what the industry has come to accept as traditional events in black life. And in this shift, we find a biography that is accessible to a universal audience. TY COLLINS, BA, MFA Independent producer/director, South Carolina Film Commission Member of the Charleston Jazz Initiative/Avery InstituteCollege of Charleston

Black Maverick

Author : David T. Beito
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252034201
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Black Maverick written by David T. Beito and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited biography of a colorful and enterprising civil rights leader

Autobiography of a Freedom Rider

Author : Thomas M. Armstrong
Publisher : Health Communications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0757316034
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Freedom Rider written by Thomas M. Armstrong and published by Health Communications, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Segregated Deep South, When Lynching and Klansmen and Jim Crow laws ruled, there stood a line of foot soldiers ready to sacrifice their lives for the right to vote, to enter rooms marked 'White Only,' and to live with simple dignity. They were called Freedom Riders, and Thomas M. Armstrong was one of them. This is his story. Autobiography of a Freedom Rider details Armstrong's burning need to create social change for his fellow black citizens. This richly woven memoir, which traces back to his great-grandparents as freed slaves, examines the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the devastating personal repercussions Armstrong endured for being a champion of those rights, the sweet taste of progressive advancement in the past fifty years, and a look ahead at the work still to be done.

The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights

Author : William P. Jones
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393082857
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights written by William P. Jones and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history professor describes the impact and history of the opening speech made during the March on Washington by the trade unionist Philip Randolph, whose vision and fight for equal economic and social citizenship began in 1941.

Bury My Heart in Birmingham, the Lamar Weaver Story

Author : Lamar Weaver
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595187498
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Bury My Heart in Birmingham, the Lamar Weaver Story written by Lamar Weaver and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the courage and dedication of many unsung heroes of the early Civil Rights Movement. It is a book that tells the story of how one White man had the courage of his convictions to fight for the rights of Blacks in Birmingham, Alabama and through out the South. It is the story of how an ordinary White man with extraordinary courage joined ordinary Blacks to fight together to end injustice and bigotry in the South. It is a book of how he narrowly survived numerous attempts on his life, while the Ku Klux Klan pursued him all over the South.

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford

Author : Beth Tompkins Bates
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807837458
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford written by Beth Tompkins Bates and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, Henry Ford hired thousands of African American men for his open-shop system of auto manufacturing. This move was a rejection of the notion that better jobs were for white men only. In The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford, Beth Tompkins Bates explains how black Detroiters, newly arrived from the South, seized the economic opportunities offered by Ford in the hope of gaining greater economic security. As these workers came to realize that Ford's anti-union "American Plan" did not allow them full access to the American Dream, their loyalty eroded, and they sought empowerment by pursuing a broad activist agenda. This, in turn, led them to play a pivotal role in the United Auto Workers' challenge to Ford's interests. In order to fully understand this complex shift, Bates traces allegiances among Detroit's African American community as reflected in its opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, challenges to unfair housing practices, and demands for increased and effective political participation. This groundbreaking history demonstrates how by World War II Henry Ford and his company had helped kindle the civil rights movement in Detroit without intending to do so.

Anatomy of a Civil Rights Worker

Author : Willie B. Ludden
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781591294900
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of a Civil Rights Worker written by Willie B. Ludden and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil rights activist Willie B. Ludden, Jr.s memoirs tell the courageous story of an individual willing to die for what he believes in. His book is an insiders account of the civil rights movement during the early 60s. As part of the NAACP, Willie trained and led young African Americans to take a non-violent stand against racism. In Jackson, he worked with Medgar Evers and was one of the last people to see Medgar alive. On that fateful night, Medgar ironically worried about Willies safety, not his own. When Medgar died, a great leader was lost. But the movement could not be stopped.

Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement

Author : Daniel Levine
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813527185
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement written by Daniel Levine and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as the man who organized the Great March on Washington in 1963, Bayard Rustin was a vital force in the civil rights movement from the 1940s through the 1980s. Rustins's activism embraced the wide range of crucial issues of his time: communism, international pacifism, and race relations. Rustin's long activist career began with his association with A. Phillip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Then, as a member of A. J. Muste's Fellowship of Reconciliation, he participated in the "Journey of Reconciliation" (an early version of the "Freedom Rides" of 1961). He was a close associate of Martin Luther King in Montgomery and Atlanta and rose to prominence as organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin played a key role in applying nonviolent direct action to American race relations while rejecting the separatism of movements like Black Power in the 1960s, even at the risk of his being marginalized by the younger generation of civil rights activists. In his later years he tried to hold the civil rights coalition together and to fight for the economic changes he thought were necessary to decrease racism. Daniel Levine has written the first scholarly biography that examines Rustin's public as well as private persona in light of his struggles as a gay black man and as an activist who followed his own principles and convictions. The result is a rich portrait of a complex, indomitable advocate for justice in American society.

Beyond the Burning Bus

Author : Phil Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Burning Bus written by Phil Noble and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Council did not prevent all disorder in Anniston - there was one death and the usual threats, crossburnings, and a widely publicized beating of two black ministers - yet Anniston was spared much of the civil rights bitterness that raged in other places in the turbulent mid-sixties."--Jacket.

The Angry Black South

Author : Glenford E. Mitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Angry Black South written by Glenford E. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from a range of black individuals and their struggles and challenges with discrimation in the south.

Victory After the Fall

Author : Hawthorne Konrad Matthews
Publisher : Newsouth Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781588381835
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Victory After the Fall written by Hawthorne Konrad Matthews and published by Newsouth Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victory After the Fall provides a fascinating journey into the civil rights battlegrounds of northwest Florida and beyond, but it is also a story of moral courage and personal redemption. Matthews tells how he lost everything as a result of his ceaseless campaign for human dignity and left Pensacola a broken man. But he discovered in Alabama that some things could never be taken from him. This book outlines the rise, fall, and ultimate victory that a remarkable person endured because of his efforts to improve relations between his fellow men.

Forgotten Legacy

Author : Benjamin R. Justesen
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Legacy written by Benjamin R. Justesen and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Forgotten Legacy, Benjamin R. Justesen reveals a previously unexamined facet of William McKinley’s presidency: an ongoing dedication to the advancement of African Americans, including their appointment to significant roles in the federal government and the safeguarding of their rights as U.S. citizens. During the first two years of his administration, McKinley named nearly as many African Americans to federal office as all his predecessors combined. He also acted on many fronts to stiffen federal penalties for participation in lynch mobs and to support measures promoting racial tolerance. Indeed, Justesen’s work suggests that McKinley might well be considered the first “civil rights president,” especially when compared to his next five successors in office. Nonetheless, historians have long minimized, trivialized, or overlooked McKinley’s cooperative relationships with prominent African American leaders, including George Henry White, the nation’s only black congressman between 1897 and 1901. Justesen contends that this conventional, one-sided portrait of McKinley is at best incomplete and misleading, and often severely distorts the historical record. A Civil War veteran and the child of abolitionist parents, the twenty-fifth president committed himself to advocating for equity for America’s black citizens. Justesen uses White’s parallel efforts in and outside of Congress as the primary lens through which to view the McKinley administration’s accomplishments in racial advancement. He focuses on McKinley’s regular meetings with a small and mostly unheralded group of African American advisers and his enduring relationship with leaders of the new National Afro-American Council. His nomination of black U.S. postmasters, consuls, midlevel agency appointees, military officers, and some high-level officials—including U.S. ministers to Haiti and Liberia—serves as perhaps the most visible example of the president’s work in this area. Only months before his assassination in 1901, McKinley toured the South, visiting African American colleges to praise black achievements and encourage a spirit of optimism among his audiences. Although McKinley succumbed to political pressure and failed to promote equality and civil rights as much as he had initially hoped, Justesen shows that his efforts proved far more significant than previously thought, and were halted only by his untimely death.

Remember My Sacrifice

Author : Elizabeth Davey
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807132772
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Remember My Sacrifice written by Elizabeth Davey and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of July 27, 1940, police arrested African American labor organizer Clinton Clark during a parishwide rally in Natchitoches, Louisiana. That day, over 800 black farmers and plantation workers made their way to town to protest for fair payments for their crops and equal access to New Deal assistance programs. Though those arrested with him were released after only three days, Clinton remained in jail for three weeks without charges and faced a possible lynching. News of Clark's captivity reached New Orleans labor organizers and spread to national civil liberties groups, making him a public figure among civil rights organizations. Recounting Clark's life in his own words, Remember My Sacrifice is an exceptional first-hand account of the lives of African Americans in rural Louisiana and of Clark's covert efforts to organize sharecroppers and farm workers during the Great Depression. Born in 1903, Clark grew up in a sharecropping family in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Like many of his counterparts, Clark struggled to find work in the 1920s, and in 1931 he moved to California with hopes of finding work. Instead, he was introduced to the Unemployed Benefits Council, a Communist-affiliated relief organization. For Clark, the organization's mission of collective action coupled with respect and relief for the unemployed was the ideal political expression for the frustration he felt within the southern economy. Upon returning to Louisiana in 1933, Clark used his newfound confidence to organize sugar plantation workers and sharecroppers on his own, often hiding out in the woods to escape the persecution of landowners and town officials. Known as the "Black Ghost of Louisiana," Clinton Clark worked to connect rural Louisiana with a larger southern farmers' union movement, an effort that culminated in the formation of the Louisiana Farmers' Union in 1937. Helping small farmers and farm workers -- most of whom were black -- take advantage of President Franklin Roosevelt's agricultural benefit programs and form goods cooperatives that served to break down the tenant farmers' reliance upon plantation commissaries, Clark assisted Louisiana farmers in their search for an equitable income. In 1942 Clinton Clark penned his autobiography at night while working at a trucking company in New Orleans, and shortly afterwards, he fled Louisiana for New York City. In the years that followed, Clark faced the FBI's Communist surveillance, though his memoir suggests that Clark never wholeheartedly endorsed communism -- he simply wanted equality. With an introduction and thorough annotations by Elizabeth Davey and Rodney Clark, Clinton Clark's nephew, Clark's unique narrative illuminates the relationships between labor and civil rights groups and their important work organizing against racial discrimination in the years before the modern civil rights movement.

Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

Author : Sarah Hopkins Bradford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman written by Sarah Hopkins Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah Hopkins Bradford, first published in 1869, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?

Author : Guy Carawan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820316431
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? written by Guy Carawan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With roots stretching back to their slave forbears, the Johns Islanders and their folk traditions are a vital link between black Americans and their African and Caribbean ancestors.

Mockingbird

Author : Charles J. Shields
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429900911
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Mockingbird written by Charles J. Shields and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colorful life of the remarkable woman who created To Kill a Mockingbird—the classic that became a touchstone for generations of Americans To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite the book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee has become a somewhat mysterious figure. Now, after years of research, Charles J. Shields has brought to life the warmhearted, high-spirited, and occasionally hardheaded woman who gave us two of American literature's most unforgettable characters—Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout—and who contributed to the success of her lifelong friend Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood. At the center of Shields's lively book is the story of Lee's struggle to create her famous novel. But her life contains many other highlights as well: her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama; the murder trial that made her beloved father's reputation and inspired her great work; her journey to Kansas as Capote's ally and research assistant to help report the story of the Clutter murders; the surrogate family she found in New York City. Drawing on six hundred interviews and much new information, Mockingbird is the first book ever written about Harper Lee. Highly entertaining, filled with humor and heart, this is an evocative portrait of a writer, her dream, and the place and people whom she made immortal.