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Paul Harvey - Through the Storm, Through the Night

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Paul Harvey

Through the Storm, Through the Night

2011

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Introduction. Themes in African American Religous History S. 1-8

„… still go to church in large I N T R O D U C T I O NThemes in African American Religious HistoryBook 1 …” „… Folk.2 Delany and Du Bois both described how a history of African American Christianity would show that …” „… Night: A History of African American Christianity.Were Delany and Du Bois alive today, they surely would …”

Bibliographic Essay S. 195-202

„… overview of African American Christian history may start with C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence Mamiya, The …” „… periods of African American Christian history, consult Juan Williams and Quinton Dixie, This Far by Faith …” „… Bibliographic EssayExperience (New York: William Morrow, 2003), a survey of African Ameri-can religious history …”

Preface

„… Through the Storm, Through the NightBook 1.indb i 6/15/11 4:55 AMThe African American History …” „… nonspecialists. They focus on topics in African American history that have broad significance and place them in …” „… : Strategies of ResistanceChristopher WaldrepLift Every Voice: The History of African-American MusicBurton W …”

Ch06. Freedom’s Main Line S. 109-132

„… the religious marketplace in ways unprecedented in African American religious history.Numerous African …” „… throughout the history of African American Christianity. Black churches continue to sustain their members …” „… , we are free at last,” he ar-ticulated a dream deeply rooted in African American religious history and …”

Ch04. Day of Jubilee S. 69-86

„… largest migrations in American history.Class and regional differences in African American society, which …” „… the nineteenth century, Africans were a people of history; they were not, as the German philosopher …” „… Hegel infamously asserted, a “people without history.”Book 1.indb 82 6/15/11 4:55 AMDay of Jubilee …”

Index S. 207-216

„… , during slave trade, 12African American(s): black church basis for, 1, 8; ethnic religions of, 4; history …” „… ; Africans transported during, 12; in Chesapeake, 18; Christianity during, 17, 19; folk history of, 187n7; in …” „… points from, 197; blacks back to, 38; Orisha in, 10; West, 10, 52African(s): medical practices of, 13–14 …”

Epilogue. Righteous Anger and Visionary Dreams S. 133-138

„… dishonorable history of racial repression, found little of surprise in the sermon. As a military veteran and a …” „… expressed two major themes of black Christianity throughout its history: righteous anger, and visionary …” „… , were the product of the blood, sweat, and tears of the African American experience, and the church …”

Ch05. Jesus on the Main Line S. 87-108

„… votes of migrants to establish himself as a significant political figure in American history.Powell was …” „… 87From 1900 to 1945, developments in African American Christianity mir-rored the larger …” „… shaping the black experi-ence was the Great Migration. A massive exodus of African Americans from the …”

Ch01. Middle Passage for the Gods S. 9-28

„… practices of enslaved African peoples clearly influenced the development of African American history. But …” „… the subject of a long and vigorous debate among scholars of African American history. Students of the …” „… with them.African slaves employed a variety of strategies and developed new forms of religious …”

Ch02. The Birth of Afro-Christianity in the Slave Quarters and the Urban North, 1740–1831 S. 29-48

„… Christianity to African Ameri-cans was a seminal moment in black American history. A small minority of blacks …” „… successful traveling salesmen in American history.These three developments combined—the Great Awakenings, the …” „… Southern colonies by the 1770s, Af-rican Americans joined the evangelical movement. The Old Lights used the …”

Notes S. 185-190

„… to Zion: African Ameri-can Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830 (Chapel …” „… , quoted in Thomas Kidd, ed., The Great Awakening: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford Books …” „… , 2007), 86–88. 2. Quoted in Sylvia Frey and Betty Wood, Come Shouting to Zion: African Ameri-can …”

Ch03. Through the Night S. 49-68

„… , it appeared in print five years later. Recounting the history of the forced migration of African …” „… 49The Great Awakenings helped to establish Christianity as a significant pres-ence in African …” „… full form in both the South and North. Enslaved African Americans might have attended white-sanctioned …”

Chronology S. 203-206

„… .1760s–1770s Great Awakening comes to the South. Quakers establish the first schools for African …” „… Free African Society in Philadelphia, first black fraternal organization and predecessor to African …” „… Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.1788 Constitution of First African Baptist Church in Savannah, Georgia.1792 …”

Primary Source Documents S. 139-184

„… the history of the Negro in America, but no uninter-esting part of American history.The Negro church …” „… Africans], mulattoes or Indians who and whose parentage and native coun-tries are not Christian at the time …” „… gospel among the slaves illuminate the roots of the resistance of both planters and enslaved Africans to …”

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Bettina Messias Carbonell - Consequential Museum Spaces

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Bettina Messias Carbonell

Consequential Museum Spaces

2023

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Richard W. Leeman - To Reach the Nation's Ear

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Richard W. Leeman

To Reach the Nation's Ear

2022

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Introduction S. 1-14

„… spoke to her place in American history, but not simply as the first African American woman to be …” „… prominent role in African American history for several reasons. Broadly, public speaking is “free,” and that …” „… history of the United States. Moreover, the 10 introductionspecial influence of African American public …”

Preface

„… NaTioN’s EaRA History of African American Public SpeakingRichard W. LeemanROWMAN & LITTLEFIELDLanham …” „… nation’s ear : a history of African American public speaking / Richard W. Leeman.Description: Lanham …” „… 9781538112328 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: African Americans—History—Source. | Speeches, addresses, etc …”

7 Barack Obama and the “Post-Racial” Society S. 189-220

„… proposed by a variety of states.CONCLUSIONThe history of African American public speaking has been woven …” „… African Americans made their place in history in large part because of their public speaking. Sojourner …” „… second lesson is that African American public speaking has occupied a prominent place in U.S. history …”

1 Liberty, Equality, and Salvation S. 15-36

„… argued that history revealed many “Africans who were truly good, wise, and learned men, and as eloquent …” „… 1Liberty, Equality, and salvationAfrican Americans at the Start of the NationFrom the earliest …” „… life of the African American community. Like Americans from all back-grounds, Blacks preached, spoke in …”

5 Waves of Reform and Revolution S. 121-158

„… they did to my boy.” The white press did not publish photographs of Till’s body, but African American …” „… next fifteen years saw radical changes in U.S. culture, and African American speakers played a central …” „… African Americans. “Last Thursday,” he said, the city arrested “one of the finest citizens in …”

6 “I Am Somebody” S. 159-188

„… concerned about the history of poverty in the African American community and how the nation could break the …” „… ASALH for promoting the proud history of great African Americans like Percy Julian, the inventor of …” „… addressed a predomi-nantly African American audience in a church basement just outside Los Angeles. In a nod …”

Index S. 231-242

„… Spring, 6ASALH. See Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and HistoryAsante, Molefi K., 7, 182 …” „… Society, 46African American community. See specific topicsAfrican American rights. See specific …” „… topicsAfrican Free School, 38African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.), 19, 71African religions, 16The …”

4 Lifting as We Climb S. 95-120

„… Negro,” delivered at Harvard University in 1922, was a haunting history of African Americans …” „… were 130,344 African Americans registered to vote in Louisiana. In 1900, after the adoption of a new …” „… in 1892, in the first decade of the twentieth century more than 800 African American men, women, and …”

2 All Manner of Reforms S. 37-64

„… 2all Manner of ReformsAfrican American speakers in the antebellum period built rapidly upon the …” „… subjects of the speeches by African Americans. Emigration back to Africa also emerged as an important …” „… theme.ALL MANNER OF SPEAKERSThe range of subjects addressed by African American speakers in this era was …”

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Timothy Fritz, Trisha Posey - Lament and Justice in African American History

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Timothy Fritz (ed.), Trisha Posey (ed.)

Lament and Justice in African American History

2023

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Steven A. Reich

A Working People

2013

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Preface

„… A Working PeopleBook 1.indb i 8/15/13 8:36 AMThe African American History SeriesSeries …” „… the gap between popular and academic history, these books bring the African American story to …” „… Voice: The History of African-American Music Burton W. PerettiTo Ask for an Equal Chance: African …”

Selected Bibliography S. 211-222

„… most contentious historiographical debates in African Ameri-can labor history has been over whether …” „… : An Oral His-tory of the African American Railroad Attendant (1996); and Harvey Schwartz, Solidarity …” „… eight-volume collection of primary sources in black labor history.W. E. B. Du Bois’s landmark book Black …”

Introduction S. 1-6

„… intimately connected to African Americans’ work-place experiences. A labor history of African Americans is …” „… 1African Americans “are almost entirely a working people,” declared Rever-end Martin Luther King Jr …” „… labor unions. As workers, King explained, African Americans were most in need of those things com-mon to …”

Ch06. Opening the American Workplace S. 141-168

„… 141Late in the afternoon of February 1, 1968, Echol Cole and Robert Walker—two African American …” „… the cause of the sanitation workers to the aspirations of all African Americans to achieve the full …” „… sanitation workers reminded the nation that most African Americans continued to perish “on a lonely island of …”

Ch04. A New Deal for Black Workers S. 87-114

„… every standard of measure, African American workers suffered a disproportionate share of the …” „… Depression’s misery. In the 1930s, more than 14 million African Americans remained in the rural South and …” „… cotton. Although the Great Migration opened employment to African Americans in key industries such as …”

Ch03. The Great Black Labor Migration S. 61-86

„… sources of labor, including African Americans from the South. Between 1915 and 1918, some five hundred …” „… employed African Americans by the thousands. By 1930 it was clear that the center of African American …” „… offers of assistance to black south-erners willing to relocate. African Americans responded by the …”

Ch05. The Black Working-Class Movement for Civil Rights S. 115-140

„… Luther King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, a national poll asked African Americans how …” „… discrimination rather than discrimination in restaurants. The pollsters also found that six out of ten African …” „… workers. To the pollsters, these numbers clarified the obstacles that prevented most Afri-can Americans …”

Ch02. Jim Crow’s Black Workers S. 33-60

„… . As early as 1873, a convention of African Americans reported from Bren-ham, Texas, that blacks in …” „… . If few African Americans worked their own land in 1865, more than two hundred thousand had acquired …” „… . In Georgia, for example, only 13 percent of African American farmers owned their land in 1910. Black …”

Documents S. 173-210

„… Strike created among African Americans. While affirming the rights of unions to organize and protect the …” „… such as the race strike on the Georgia Railroad left many African American workers reluctant to …” „… of shutting out competition. . . . We [African Americas] are daily fitting ourselves in the fields …”

About the Author S. 231-232

„… , Virginia. He teaches courses in labor, African American, and Southern history as well as in historical …” „… research methods. He served as the Department of History’s graduate program director from 2007 to 2012. He …” „… 231Steven A. Reich is associate professor of history at James Madison University in Harrisonburg …”

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