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Author : Reginald Larrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Experiences in Michigan History written by Reginald Larrie and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Walker
Publisher : Discovering the Peoples of Mic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Americans in Michigan written by Lewis Walker and published by Discovering the Peoples of Mic. This book was released on 2001 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans, as free laborers and as slaves, were among the earliest permanent residents of Michigan, settling among the French, British, and Native people with whom they worked and farmed. Lewis Walker and Benjamin Wilson recount the long history of African American communities in Michigan, delineating their change over time, as migrants from the South, East, and overseas made their homes in the state. Moreover, the authors show how Michigan's development is inextricably joined with the vitality and strength of its African American residents. In a related chapter, Linwood Cousins examines youth culture and identity in African American schools, linking education with historical and contemporary issues of economics, racism, and power.
Author : Pero Gaglo Dagbovie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611864946
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Forever in the Path written by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Founded in 1855 as the State Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, Michigan State University-"America's first agricultural college"-has a fascinating past, a history shaped by vacillating local and national contexts as well as by people from different walks of life. The first Black students arrived on campus during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the first full-time Black faculty member was hired in the late 1940s. Before and after the modern Civil Rights Movement, African Americans from various backgrounds were transformed by MSU while also profoundly contributing in vital ways to the institution's growth and evolving identity. Forever in the Path offers a sweeping overview of the Black experience at Michigan State University from the 1890s through the late twentieth century. With explorations of countless personalities, important events, and key turning points, this book is a blend of intellectual history, social history, educational history, institutional history, and the African American biographical tradition. Dagbovie depicts and imagines how his numerous subjects' upbringings and experiences at the college and later university informed their futures, and how they benefitted from and contributed to MSU's vision, mission, and transformative role in the history of higher education"--
Author : Alice Randall
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062968653
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Black Bottom Saints written by Alice Randall and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson, has been the pulse of Detroit’s famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city’s African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he’s rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats. As he lays dying in the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Ziggy reflects on his life, the community that was the center of his world, and the remarkable people who helped shape it. Inspired by the Catholic Saints Day Books, Ziggy curates his own list of Black Bottom’s venerable "52 Saints." Among them are a vulnerable Dinah Washington, a defiant Joe Louis, and a raucous Bricktop. Randall balances the stories of these larger-than-life "Saints" with local heroes who became household names, enthralling men and women whose unstoppable ambition, love of style, and faith in community made this black Midwestern neighborhood the rival of New York City’s Harlem. Accompanying these “tributes” are thoughtfully paired cocktails—special drinks that capture the essence of each of Ziggy’s saints—libations as strong and satisfying as Alice Randall’s wholly original view of a place and time unlike any other.
Author : Ross E. Anderson (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book A History of an African American WWII Veteran in Michigan written by Ross E. Anderson (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Early African American experiences in Michigan are hard to locate and difficult to interpret. There are a few sporadic pieces of historical evidence that have allowed for historical research, but little exists in the way of actual accounts or concrete evidence that would detail the African American experience in early Michigan. There are a few examples of where this history is found; chiefly in Bible histories, Township census reports and a few scattered references to marriages and personal letters. Thus, sources on the early African American experience are scarce. John Walker's history personifies this with the oral history that was told to him by his relatives about his great-great grand mother-in-laws crossing from slavery into freedom into Port Huron, Michigan. This was provided in his oral interview that was conducted by me. He was unable to tell me very little of his actual family history prior to 1850 where I was able to begin to trace his grandfather's interlude with his grandmother." -- From page 1.
Author : Darlene Clark Hine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Women in the Middle West written by Darlene Clark Hine and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lane Demas
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469634236
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Game of Privilege written by Lane Demas and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA)--a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975. Lane Demas charts how African Americans nationwide organized social campaigns, filed lawsuits, and went to jail in order to desegregate courses; he also provides dramatic stories of golfers who boldly confronted wider segregation more broadly in their local communities. As national civil rights organizations debated golf’s symbolism and whether or not to pursue the game’s integration, black players and caddies took matters into their own hands and helped shape its subculture, while UGA participants forged one of the most durable black sporting organizations in American history as they fought to join the white Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA). From George F. Grant’s invention of the golf tee in 1899 to the dominance of superstar Tiger Woods in the 1990s, this revelatory and comprehensive work challenges stereotypes and indeed the fundamental story of race and golf in American culture.
Author : Rose Louise Hammond
Publisher : Run with It
ISBN 13 : 9780615217222
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan an African American Remembers written by Rose Louise Hammond and published by Run with It. This book was released on 2008 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan is one of the countries first African American resorts, owned and operated by African Americans. This book is a historical compilation of interviews conducted during the summers of 1994 and 1995 with some of the few original owners or families still holding property ownership in Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan The reader will see some of the individuals whose families helped to create these two beautiful communities by telling their family's history. Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan "An African American Remembers" will let the reader travel in time from the 1900's.
Author : James E. DeVries
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town written by James E. DeVries and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald Jemal Stephens
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738518909
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Idlewild written by Ronald Jemal Stephens and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once considered the most famous African-American resort community in the country, Idlewild was referred to as the Black Eden of Michigan in the 1920s and '30s, and as the Summer Apollo of Michigan in the 1950s and '60s. Showcasing classy revues and interactive performances of some of the leading black entertainers of the period, Idlewild was an oasis in the shadows of legal segregation. Idlewild: Black Eden of Michigan focuses on this illustrative history, as well as the decline and the community's contemporary renaissance, in over 200 rare photographs. The lively legacy of Lela G. and Herman O. Wilson, and Paradise Path is included, featuring images of the Paradise Club and Wilson's Grocery. Idlewild continued its role as a distinctive American resort throughout the 1950s, with photographs ranging from Phil Giles' Flamingo Club and Arthur Braggs's Idlewild Revue.
Author : Victoria W. Wolcott
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807849668
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Remaking Respectability written by Victoria W. Wolcott and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit
Author : August Meier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472032198
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW written by August Meier and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of labor history, with a new foreword by one of the leading figures in urban studies
Author : June Manning Thomas
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814339085
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Redevelopment and Race written by June Manning Thomas and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War II, professional city planners in Detroit made a concerted effort to halt the city's physical and economic decline. Their successes included an award-winning master plan, a number of laudable redevelopment projects, and exemplary planning leadership in the city and the nation. Yet despite their efforts, Detroit was rapidly transforming into a notorious symbol of urban decay. In Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit, June Manning Thomas takes a look at what went wrong, demonstrating how and why government programs were ineffective and even destructive to community needs. In confronting issues like housing shortages, blight in older areas, and changing economic conditions, Detroit's city planners worked during the urban renewal era without much consideration for low-income and African American residents, and their efforts to stabilize racially mixed neighborhoods faltered as well. Steady declines in industrial prowess and the constant decentralization of white residents counteracted planners' efforts to rebuild the city. Among the issues Thomas discusses in this volume are the harmful impacts of Detroit's highways, the mixed record of urban renewal projects like Lafayette Park, the effects of the 1967 riots on Detroit's ability to plan, the city-building strategies of Coleman Young (the city's first black mayor) and his mayoral successors, and the evolution of Detroit's federally designated Empowerment Zone. Examining the city she knew first as an undergraduate student at Michigan State University and later as a scholar and planner, Thomas ultimately argues for a different approach to traditional planning that places social justice, equity, and community ahead of purely physical and economic objectives. Redevelopment and Race was originally published in 1997 and was given the Paul Davidoff Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 1999. Students and teachers of urban planning will be grateful for this re-release. A new postscript offers insights into changes since 1997.
Author : Todd E Robinson
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439909237
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book A City Within a City written by Todd E Robinson and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A City within a City examines the civil rights movement in the North by concentrating on the struggles for equality in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Historian Todd Robinson studies the issues surrounding school integration and bureaucratic reforms as well as the role of black youth activism to detail the diversity of black resistance. He focuses on respectability within the African American community as a way of understanding how the movement was formed and held together. And he elucidates the oppositional role of northern conservatives regarding racial progress. A City within a City cogently argues that the post-war political reform championed by local Republicans transformed the city's racial geography, creating a racialized "city within a city," featuring a system of "managerial racism" designed to keep blacks in declining inner-city areas. As Robinson indicates, this bold, provocative framework for understanding race relations in Grand Rapids has broader implications for illuminating the twentieth-century African American urban experience in secondary cities.
Author : Megan Taylor Shockley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028632
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (286 download)
Download or read book "We, Too, are Americans" written by Megan Taylor Shockley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, factories across America retooled for wartime production, and unprecedented labor opportunities opened up for women and minorities. In We, Too, Are Americans, Megan Taylor Shockley examines the experiences of the African American women who worked in two capitols of industry--Detroit, Michigan, and Richmond, Virginia--during the war and the decade that followed it, making a compelling case for viewing World War II as the crucible of the civil rights movement. As demands on them intensified, the women working to provide American troops with clothing, medical supplies, and other services became increasingly aware of their key role in the war effort. A considerable number of the African Americans among them began to use their indispensability to leverage demands for equal employment, welfare and citizenship benefits, fair treatment, good working conditions, and other considerations previously denied them. Shockley shows that as these women strove to redefine citizenship, backing up their claims to equality with lawsuits, sit-ins, and other forms of activism, they were forging tools that civil rights activists would continue to use in the years to come.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Black Experience written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Walker
Publisher : Michigan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Black Eden written by Lewis Walker and published by Michigan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the memories are totally faded, Western Michigan University scholars Walker (sociology) and Wilson (Africana studies) chronicle Idlewild, Michigan as one of the black towns and rural communities that emerged in various part of the US in the aftermath of the Civil War and in the early 20th century. They highlight selected eras in the black resort where residents from nearby cities sought relief from the heat and the racism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
