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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Black towns"”.
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A Place to Call Home: A Study of the Self-Segregated Community of Tatums, Oklahoma, 1894-1970
… under the assumption that the historically black towns (HBT) developed as a response to conditions in the South. This community provides a rich example of the apparent anomalies that the environment of self-segregation created. Despite the widespread violence of the Klan, the residents of …
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Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879
… to create political solidarity by demonizing blacks. Black and white voting patterns show how well the editors of the local newspaper, the Clarke Courier, encouraged the restoration of white supremacy with their negative writing about African Americans. White concerns about potential black …
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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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Black Collective Memory as Economic Development Practice: Resistance and Renaissance in Louisiana’s River Parishes
… This thesis investigates the role of a Black collective memory in shaping the past, present, and future of these economies. Utilizing case studies, this thesis profiles two visionary, trailblazing environmental justice organizations, Rise St. James and The Descendants Projects. These …
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Framing a Blaxicana Identity: A Cultural Ethnography of Family, Race and Community in the Valley Homes, Lincoln Heights, Ohio, 1955-1960
… to grow up Negro, Mexican and female in an all black town will determine the scope and complexity of the identity formation factors that may be brought forth in <em>Blaxicana Identity</em>. Geographically situated in the Valley Homes housing projects located in Lincoln Heights, Ohio, just north …
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“We deem it entirely fitting": Civil War memory in Oklahoma
… 1922 and incorporating the narratives of white, Black, and Indigenous people living in the state. A study of primary sources such as newspapers and meeting minutes, along with contextual investigation of secondary literature, reveals the formulation of distinct stories of Civil War memory. The …