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Author : Spelman College (ATLANTA, Georgia)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book The Story of Spelman College. By Florence Matilda Read written by Spelman College (ATLANTA, Georgia) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florence Matilda Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692472446
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Story of Spelman College, Second Edition written by Florence Matilda Read and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1881, Spelman College, the oldest historically Black college for women and now widely recognized as one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the United States, is an unparalleled success story in higher education. This history, written by Florence Matilda Read, president of Spelman College from 1926-1953, tells the compelling story of its beginnings. Founded by two New England women, Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles, in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, its growth was phenomenal. With the sacrificial support of Father Frank Quarles, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, the fledgling school took hold and within a few years began to draw students from across the United States, and eventually the world. In the early days of its existence, Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles captured the philanthropic interest of John D. Rockefeller and his wife, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, so much so that the school, originally known as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, was renamed in 1884 in honor of Laura Spelman Rockefeller's parents. The Story of Spelman College chronicles events in the lives of the founders before their arrival in Atlanta in 1881, and documents the trials and triumphs of the first 70 years of the school's existence, as well as the historically significant relationship between the Rockefeller family and Spelman College, the first such investment the family made in the education of African Americans. From its earliest days, Spelman was a beacon of opportunity for Black women in an otherwise dark landscape. The power of the Spelman College education was demonstrated in the fact that over 37% of the graduates from 1928-1953 earned graduate and professional degrees, a remarkable achievement in an era marked by overt racial and gender discrimination. Students of U.S. higher education will learn much about this unique institution as well as the vital role it played in the development of the Atlanta University Center, the largest concentration of historically Black colleges and universities. The second edition features a new introduction written by Beverly Daniel Tatum, the ninth president of Spelman College.
Author : Florence Matilda Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Story of Spelman College written by Florence Matilda Read and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Read was president of Spelman College from 1927-1953. Throws light on the progress of Negro education in the U.S.
Author : Florence Matilda Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Story of Spelman College written by Florence Matilda Read and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Read was president of Spelman College from 1927-1953. Throws light on the progress of Negro education in the U.S.
Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167266
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book My Life and An Era written by John Hope Franklin and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “My father’s life represented many layers of the human experience—freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional.”—John Hope Franklin Buck Colbert Franklin (1879–1960) led an extraordinary life; from his youth in what was then the Indian Territory to his practice of law in twentieth-century Tulsa, he was an observant witness to the changes in politics, law, daily existence, and race relations that transformed the wide-open Southwest. Fascinating in its depiction of an intelligent young man's coming of age in the days of the Land Rush and the closing of the frontier, My Life and an Era is equally important for its reporting of the triracial culture of early Oklahoma. Recalling his boyhood spent in the Chickasaw Nation, Franklin suggests that blacks fared better in Oklahoma in the days of the Indians than they did later with the white population. In addition to his insights about the social milieu, he offers youthful reminiscences of mustangs and mountain lions, of farming and ranch life, that might appear in a Western novel. After returning from college in Nashville and Atlanta, Franklin married a college classmate, studied law by mail, passed the bar, and struggled to build a practice in Springer and Ardmore in the first years of Oklahoma statehood. Eventually a successful attorney in Tulsa, he was an eyewitness to a number of important events in the Southwest, including the Tulsa race riot of 1921, which left more than 100 dead. His account clearly shows the growing racial tensions as more and more people moved into the state in the period leading up to World War II. Rounded out by an older man’s reflections on race, religion, culture, and law, My Life and an Era presents a true, firsthand account of a unique yet defining place and time in the nation's history, as told by an eloquent and impassioned writer.
Author : Ron Chernow
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307429776
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Titan written by Ron Chernow and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists—and an utter enigma. Drawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller’s private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subjects’ troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. But he also uncovers the profound religiosity that drove him “to give all I could”; his devotion to his father; and the wry sense of humor that made him the country’s most colorful codger. Titan is a magnificent biography—balanced, revelatory, elegantly written.
Author : Marsha E. Barrett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501776258
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma written by Marsha E. Barrett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma reveals the fascinating and influential political career of the four-time New York State governor and US vice president. Marsha E. Barrett's portrayal of this multi-faceted political player focuses on the eclipse of moderate Republicanism and the betrayal of deeply held principles for political power. Although never able to win his party's presidential nomination, Rockefeller's tenure as governor was notable for typically liberal policies: infrastructure projects, expanding the state's university system, and investing in local services and the social safety net. As the Civil Rights movement intensified in the early 1960s, Rockefeller envisioned a Republican Party recommitted to its Lincolnian heritage as a defender of Black equality. But the party's extreme right wing, encouraged by its successful outreach to segregationists before and after the nomination of Barry Goldwater, pushed the party to the right. With his national political ambitions fading by the late 1960s, Rockefeller began to tack right himself on social and racial issues, refusing to endorse efforts to address police brutality, accusing, without proof, Black welfare mothers of cheating the system, or introducing harsh drug laws that disproportionately incarcerated people of color. These betrayals of his own ideals did little to win him the support of the party faithful, and his vice presidency ended in humiliation, rather than the validation of moderate ideals. An in-depth, insightful, and timely political history, Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma details how the standard-bearer of moderate Republicanism lost the battle for the soul of the Party of Lincoln, leading to mainlining of white-grievance populism for the post-civil rights era.
Author : Margaret A. Lowe
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421401819
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Looking Good written by Margaret A. Lowe and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bridgewater State College Class of 1950 Distinguished Faculty Research Award Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics charged that campus life posed grave hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health. "A girl could study and learn," Dr. Edward Clarke warned in his widely read 1873 book Sex in Education, "but she could not do all this and retain uninjured health, and a future secure from neuralgia, uterine disease, hysteria, and other derangements of the nervous system." For half a century, ideas such as Dr. Clarke's framed the debate over a woman's place in higher education almost exclusively in terms of her body and her health. For historian Margaret A. Lowe, this obsession offers one of the clearest expressions of the social and cultural meanings given to the female body between 1875 and 1930. At the same time, the "college girl" was a novelty that tested new ideas about feminine beauty, sexuality, and athleticism. In Looking Good, Lowe examines the ways in which college women at three quite different institutions—Cornell University, Smith College, and Spelman College—regarded their own bodies in this period. Contrasting white and black students, single-sex and coeducational schools, secular and religious environments, and Northern and Southern attitudes, Lowe draws on student diaries, letters, and publications; institutional records; and accounts in the popular press to examine the process by which new, twentieth-century ideals of the female body took hold in America.
Author : David L. Lewis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805025340
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963 written by David L. Lewis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis charts the second half of Du Bois's career, from the end of World War I on.
Author : Sarah H. Case
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099842
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Leaders of Their Race written by Sarah H. Case and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white women with elite backgrounds. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, Case's analysis shows how race, gender, sexuality, and region worked within these institutions to shape education. Her comparative approach shines a particular light on how female education embodied the complex ways racial and gender identity functioned at the time. As she shows, the schools cultivated modesty and self-restraint to protect the students. Indeed, concerns about female sexuality and respectability united the schools despite their different student populations. Case also follows the lives of the women as adult teachers, alumnae, and activists who drew on their education to negotiate the New South's economic and social upheavals.
Author : Jeffrey A. Turner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820335932
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Sitting in and Speaking Out written by Jeffrey A. Turner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sitting In and Speaking Out, Jeffrey A. Turner examines student movements in the South to grasp the nature of activism in the region during the turbulent 1960s. Turner argues that the story of student activism is too often focused on national groups like Students for a Democratic Society and events at schools like Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley. Examining the activism of black and white students, he shows that the South responded to national developments but that the response had its own trajectory--one that was rooted in race. Turner looks at such events as the initial desegregation of campuses; integration's long aftermath, as students learned to share institutions; the Black Power movement; and the antiwar movement. Escalating protest against the Vietnam War tested southern distinctiveness, says Turner. The South's tendency toward hawkishness impeded antiwar activism, but once that activism arrived, it was--as in other parts of the country--oriented toward events at national and global scales. Nevertheless, southern student activism retained some of its core characteristics. Even in the late 1960s, southern protesters' demands tended toward reform, often eschewing calls to revolution increasingly heard elsewhere. Based on primary research at more than twenty public and private institutions in the deep and upper South, including historically black schools, Sitting In and Speaking Out is a wide-ranging and sensitive portrait of southern students navigating a remarkably dynamic era.
Author : Booker T Washington
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252004100
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3 written by Booker T Washington and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1974-04 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington's gradual rise to prominence as an educator, race leader, and shrewd political broker is revealed in this volume, which covers his career from May 1889 to September 1895, when he delivered the famous speech often called the Atlanta Compromise address. Much of the volume relates to Washington's role as principal of Tuskegee Institute, where he built a powerful base of operations for his growing influence with white philanthropists in the North, southern white leaders, and the black community.
Author : Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199932018
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Courage to Dissent written by Tomiko Brown-Nagin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a sweeping history of the civil rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, arguing the motivations of the movement were much more complicated than simply a desire for integration.
Author : Karen Ferguson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 080786014X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta written by Karen Ferguson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship. Black reformers, often working within federal agencies as social workers and administrators, saw the inclusion of African Americans in New Deal social welfare programs as a chance to prepare black Atlantans to take their rightful place in the political and social mainstream. They also worked to build a constituency they could mobilize for civil rights, in the process facilitating a shift from elite reform to the mass mobilization that marked the postwar black freedom struggle. Although these reformers' efforts were an essential prelude to civil rights activism, Ferguson argues that they also had lasting negative repercussions, embedded as they were in the politics of respectability. By attempting to impose bourgeois behavioral standards on the black community, elite reformers stratified it into those they determined deserving to participate in federal social welfare programs and those they consigned to remain at the margins of civic life.
Author : Yopie Prins
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691141894
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Ladies' Greek written by Yopie Prins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ladies' Greek, Yopie Prins illuminates a culture of female classical literacy that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century, during the formation of women's colleges on both sides of the Atlantic. Why did Victorian women of letters desire to learn ancient Greek, a "dead" language written in a strange alphabet and no longer spoken? In the words of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, they wrote "some Greek upon the margin—lady's Greek, without the accents." Yet in the margins of classical scholarship they discovered other ways of knowing, and not knowing, Greek. Mediating between professional philology and the popularization of classics, these passionate amateurs became an important medium for classical transmission. Combining archival research on the entry of women into Greek studies in Victorian England and America with a literary interest in their translations of Greek tragedy, Prins demonstrates how women turned to this genre to perform a passion for ancient Greek, full of eros and pathos. She focuses on five tragedies—Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Electra, Hippolytus, and The Bacchae—to analyze a wide range of translational practices by women and to explore the ongoing legacy of Ladies' Greek. Key figures in this story include Barrett Browning and Virginia Woolf, Janet Case and Jane Harrison, Edith Hamilton and Eva Palmer, and A. Mary F. Robinson and H.D. The book also features numerous illustrations, including photographs of early performances of Greek tragedy at women's colleges. The first comparative study of Anglo-American Hellenism, Ladies' Greek opens up new perspectives in transatlantic Victorian studies and the study of classical reception, translation, and gender.
Author : Abena P. A. Busia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134906676
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Theorizing Black Feminisms written by Abena P. A. Busia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong collection of essays in a field hungry for texts Provides theoretical basis for a developing subject International - authors from US, Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria Deals with important current issues - AIDS in Africa and the US; reproductive rights; the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas controversy Four colour cover
Author : Amanda Bresie
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813237238
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Veiled Leadership written by Amanda Bresie and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the rainy morning of October 1, 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized Mother Katharine Drexel. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, Drexel bucked society and formed the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. Her compelling personal story has excited many biographers who have highlighted her holiness and catalogued her good deeds. During her life, newspapers called her the "Millionaire Nun," and much of the literature on Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament exalts Katharine Drexel's disbursement of her vast fortune to benefit Black and Indigenous people. The often repeated stories of a riches to rags holy woman miss the true significance of what Mother Katharine and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament attempted. Drexel was not merely the ATM of Catholic Home Missions; rather, she challenged the hierarchy to reimagine its mission in the United States. In an era when the Church controlled the actions and censored the opinions of women religious, they had to listen to Mother Katharine. Most writing on Drexel and the SBS focus on Drexel's spiritual journey, but Veiled Leadership traces the daily operations of her charitable empire and looks at how the Sisters implemented Drexel's vision in the field. The SBS were not always welcomed in the communities they served, and they experienced conflict from both white supremacists and the people they wanted to aid. Veiled Leadership examines the lives of Mother Katharine and her congregation within the context of larger constructs of gender, race, religion, reform, and national identity. It explores what happens when a non-dominant culture tries to impose its views and morals on other non-dominant cultures. In other words, as outliers themselves-they were semi-cloistered Catholic women from primarily immigrant backgrounds in a culture that regarded their lifestyles as alien and unnatural-their attempts to Americanize and assimilate Black and Indigenous people, whose families had been in the country for generations longer than the nuns' own, adds complexity to our understanding of cultural hegemony.
