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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"colored people"”.
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"Black and White Together, We Shall Win": Southern White Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
… National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist Buford Posey, and William Carey president Ralph Noonkester. While their contributions between 1950-1971 differed, being white and active in the Deep South connects all three lives. A closer examination of what spurred …
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Der Fall der Rachel Dolezal
… der National Association for the Advancement of Colored People setzte sie sich für die Rechte der afroamerikanischen Bevölkerung ein, lebte in einem schwarzen Umfeld und lehrte an einer Universität Afroamerikanische Studien. „I identify as black“ antwortete sie auf die Frage eines amerikanischen …
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Historicidade da identidade afrodescendente na educação escolar da Comunidade Quilombola de Paratibe: um estudo de caso sobre o autorreconhecimento e o racismo.
… process of the students about the topic of colored people history and culture, however this incentive could be applied in a strongly way gradually.
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From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence Movement
… and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), respectively. Mainstream and “underground” (gay and African American) media outlets also helped mobilize grassroots activism and increased outside pressure for hate crime legislation through sympathetic coverage of the hate …
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Black Business as Activism: Ebony Magazine and the Civil Rights Movement
… the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), an organization at the forefront of the civil rights movement. This piece will attempt to make the claim that black-owned private businesses should become included alongside community and civil rights organizations to expand …
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C.C. Bryant: a Race Man Is What They Called Him
… Thus far, historian John Dittmer's, Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi has provided the most thorough account of lesser known movement activist. There still exists a need for scholarship from the perspective of community leaders. Curtis Conway Bryant, better known as …
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Providing For Our Communities, Protecting Our Race, Proving Ourselves: African American Activism and Protest In Depression Era New Orleans
… the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Federation of Civics Leagues and the black newspaper, the Louisiana Weekly, formed a coalition to hire a special prosecutor in Guerand's trial. As they sought contributions, McCray became a symbol of black womanhood in need of …
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Fertility and mortality in Puerto Rico
… was to study the fertility and mortality of the people of Puerto Rico. It was found that fertility is very high and has been consistently high since 1900. It was found that mortality has declined very rapidly since 1900. Hence, the combination of these two trends is bringing about a very high …
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An Historical Analysis of the Development of Charter School Legislation in Virginia
… the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Virginia School Boards Association (VSBA), and the Virginia Education Association (VEA). Equally important, partisan politics and the opposition of the Black Caucus in the General Assembly were the two strongest internal …
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Parading respectability: an ethnography of the Christmas bands movement in the Western Cape, South Africa
… through music by way of a social history of the colored communities. The term colored is a local racialized designation for people of mixed descent–often perceived as of mixed-race by the segregationist and apartheid ideologues. In the complexity of race relations in South Africa these …
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The Goffal Speaks: Coloured Ideology and the Perpetuation of a Category in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
… the Coloured category. The categorization of people tends to develop in the course of specific histories of particular places. Local nuances color this. In Southern Africa, following the victory of the South African National Party (NP) in 1948, the term "community" was used as a euphemism for …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
… the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the American Communist Party (CPUSA), and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) took advantage of jazz’s rapidly exploding commercial appeal during the early 1920s and staged lucrative benefit concerts featuring jazz …
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Dark Days in the Ohio Valley: Three Western Kentucky Lynchings, 1884-1911
… the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People petitioned both Frankfort and Washington, D.C. for action. Surprisingly, heavy public pressure resulted in the eventual indictment of eighteen prominent McLean Countians believed to have partici-pated in the heinous spectacle. Not …
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The Radical Heart: The Politics of Love in the Struggle for African-American Equality, 1833-2000
… Nash declared that of race-mixing and mixed-race people in America to be a "hidden history." Since the late 1990s, however, dozens of monographs and anthologies have appeared exploring sexuality in colonial and early America. Despite the best intentions of colonial authorities to establish order …
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A history of the Ottery School of Industries in Cape Town: issues of race, welfare and social order in the period 1937 to 1968
The primary task of this thesis is to explain the establishment of the 'correctional institution', the Ottery School of Industrues, in Cape Town in 1948 and the programmes of rehabilitation, correctional and vocational training and residential care that the institution developed in the period until …
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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"
Scholarship 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 …