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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Black Freedom"”.
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Impossible allies: SNCC, Black freedom, and the civil rights liberal alliance
On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Black Power and amidst a resurgence of national interest in African American grassroots political mobilizations under the Black Lives Matter umbrella, this dissertation argues for a reformulation of how we understand the history of the civil rights …
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Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
… was lynched. The mob was driven back, first by black deputies at the jail, then by armed African Americans who prevented their neighborhood from being torched. The National Guard occupied the city for five days. Black community leaders, certain that the girls' assailants were white, posted a …
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Mississippi Mau Mau : Medgar Evers and the black freedom struggle, 1952-1963
… between African liberation struggles and the Black Freedom Movement in the United States by concentrating on the ways in which American civil rights activists absorbed and utilized knowledge from anti-colonial movements. This dissertation focuses on the career of NAACP Field Secretary Medgar …
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The rhetorics of community space: critical events in Champaign-Urbana's Black Freedom Movement
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The Black Freedom Movement and community planning in urban parks in Cleveland, Ohio, 1945-1977
… recreation landscape during the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. Public parks were important urban spaces—serving as central gathering spots for surrounding neighborhoods and unifying symbols of community identity. When access to these spaces was denied or limited along lines of race, …
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If Selma Were Heaven: Economic Transformation and Black Freedom Struggles in the Alabama Black Belt, 1901 - 2000
… for voting rights. The beating of peaceful black marchers by white state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that March catapulted the city and black demands for the ballot into the national spotlight. When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed five months later, it cemented Selma as a …
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"For His Own Lucre and Gain": Armistead Lawless's Bawdyhouse and the Meanings of Black Freedom in Antebellum St. Louis
… Lawless fails to conform to conventions about Black freedom. Instead, he illuminates the possibilities of freedom and expands the boundaries of what one Black man could do in the antebellum United States. His story adds an intimate portrait to current interpretations of freedom, violence, …
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Can the Ummah speak? reexamining genealogies of Black Muslim Women within the Black freedom movement through the examples of Betty Shabazz and Clara Muhammad
… relationships to emphasize the significance of Black American Muslim women cultivating a community through their interpretations of Islam, which offer a unique spiritual and political consciousness. Using the story of Hajaar and motherhood as a framework, the paper shifts understandings of …
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The Lexington, Kentucky Civil Rights Movement
… rights movements through the examination of the black freedom struggle in Lexington, Kentucky. The geographical location of Lexington offers a unique perspective in civil rights movement activity, as the local movement was not distinctly northern or southern in character. This thesis functions as …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
“Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century” examines depictions of black rebellion in American and African American literature spanning from the 1830s to the early 1900s. From enslaved uprisings and black armies to worker strikes and insurgent plots, black …
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Community and Resistance in the Gateway City: Black National Consciousness, Working -Class Formation, and Social Movements in St. Louis, Missouri, 1941--1964
… as a case study, this dissertation argues that Black working-class formation and urban community-building propelled the major Black social movements between World War II and the early 1960s. The agendas emerging from these movements represented the racial and class interests of Black working …
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That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865
… the Ohio River as the border between slavery and freedom. However, slaveholder influence continued to permeate the region as questions over fugitive slaves, Black migration, and the rights of free African Americans created a hostile political climate for African Americans. Despite anti-Black …
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Breaking Down the Fear' -- John H. Mccray, Accommodationism and theFraming of the Civil Rights Struggle in South Carolina, 1940-1948
… who served as editor of South Carolina's leading black newspaper from 1941 to 1954. After years of dormancy, the civil rights movement sprang to life in the state in the 1940s. A historian writing in the late 1950s called it 'one of the South's most dynamic and successful' campaigns, and he cited …
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“HERE THEY ARE IN THE LOWEST STATE OF SOCIAL GRADATION —ALIENS—POLITICAL—MORAL—SOCIAL ALIENS, STRANGERS, THOUGH NATIVES”: REMOVAL AND COLONIZATION IN THE OLD NORTHWEST, 1815-1870
… sought to expunge the nation of slavery, free blacks, and native peoples to make a white republic. This research contends that colonization promoted racial nationalism by campaigning for a safe and homogenous nation free of slavery, ‘degraded’ free blacks, and dangerous Native Americans. It …
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
… strain of American cultural martyrdom I term “Black American martyrdom.” I trace the genealogy of Black American martyrdom from the 1830s, when martyrdom rhetoric flourished among the zealous Northeastern immediate abolitionists, to the 1960s, when Martin Luther King, Jr. influentially cast …
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"We cleared the land with our own hands": space and place in African American community building and freedom struggles in the Missouri Bootheel, 1890-1968"
… on African American community building and Black freedom struggles has demonstrated the centrality of the Black working class to social, political, and economic transformations in the twentieth-century rural South. Yet, our understanding of how African Americans actively engaged in power …
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He Thinks He's Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1979
… middle-class masculinity, appropriated imaginary black masculinities into their lives and work. The dissertation demonstrates that during the civil rights era images of black men circulated widely in U.S. popular culture, in part because of the acceleration of the black freedom struggle. Media …
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The Protest Song: Bridge Leadership, Sonic Innovation, And The Long Civil Rights Movement
… articulate feminist identities inside the long black freedom movement, harnessing the power of music to push for a broader and simultaneous liberation from racial and gendered oppression. While the project prioritizes the voices and intellectual artistry of black women, the dissertation also …
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For the Liberation of Black People Everywhere: The African Blood Brotherhood, Black Radicalism, and Pan -African Liberation in the New Negro Movement, 1917--1936
… African Blood Brotherhood's role in codifying black radicalism as a distinct political tendency during the New Negro Movement. It focuses on how they came to conceptualize the relationship between race, nation, class, and socialism as they related to the Black Freedom Movement in the United …
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Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture
… known as funk. Narrating the process by which black artists' embraced and popularized funk modes of expression, this dissertation traces how the genre extended directly from post-assassination trauma and attempted to provide a purposeful announcement of black solidarity and an uncensored …
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