Born Along the Color Line

Born Along the Color Line
Title Born Along the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Eben Miller
Publisher Oxford University Press
Total Pages 368
Release 2012-02
Genre History
ISBN 0195174550

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This book chronicles the 1933 Amenia Conference in upstate New York which brought together a young group of African-American activists who would shape the ongoing civil rights movement during the Depression, World War II, and beyond.

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Title The 1619 Project: Born on the Water PDF eBook
Author Nikole Hannah-Jones
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 49
Release 2021-11-16
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0593307356

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The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson. A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400 years ago, in 1619, their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders. But before that, they had a home, a land, a language. She learns how the people said to be born on the water survived. And the people planted dreams and hope, willed themselves to keep living, living. And the people learned new words for love for friend for family for joy for grow for home. With powerful verse and striking illustrations by Nikkolas Smith, Born on the Water provides a pathway for readers of all ages to reflect on the origins of American identity.

Born along the Color Line

Born along the Color Line
Title Born along the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Eben Miller
Publisher Oxford University Press
Total Pages 368
Release 2012-02-01
Genre History
ISBN 0199930554

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In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B. DuBois would mingle with "the coming leaders of Negro thought." It was a fascinating encounter that would transform the civil rights movement. With elegant writing and piercing insight, historian Eben Miller narrates how this little-known conference brought together a remarkable young group of African American activists, capturing through the lives of five extraordinary participants--youth activist Juanita Jackson, diplomat Ralph Bunche, economist Abram Harris, lawyer Louis Redding, and Harlem organizer Moran Weston--how this generation shaped the ongoing movement for civil rights during the Depression, World War II, and beyond. Miller describes how Jackson, Bunche, Harris, and the others felt that, amidst the global crisis of the 1930s, it was urgent to move beyond the NAACP's legal and political focus to build an economic movement that reached across the racial divide to challenge the capitalist system that had collapsed so devastatingly. They advocated alliances with labor groups, agitated for equal education, and campaigned for anti-lynching legislation and open access to the ballot and employment--spreading their influential ideas through their writings and by mass organizing in African American communities across the country, North and South. In their arguments and individual awakenings, they formed a key bridge between the turn-of-the-century Talented Tenth and the postwar civil rights generation, broadening and advancing the fight for racial equality through the darkest economic times the country has ever faced. In Born along the Color Line, Miller vividly captures the emergence of a forgotten generation of African American leaders, a generation that made Brown v. Board of Education and all that followed from it possible. It is an illuminating portrait of the "long civil rights movement," not the movement that began in the 1950s, but the one that took on new life at Amenia in 1933

Life on the Color Line

Life on the Color Line
Title Life on the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Gregory Howard Williams
Publisher Penguin
Total Pages 314
Release 1996-02-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1440673330

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“Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew up believing he was white. But when the family business failed and his parents’ marriage fell apart, Williams discovered that his dark-skinned father, who had been passing as Italian-American, was half black. The family split up, and Greg, his younger brother, and their father moved to Muncie, Indiana, where the young boys learned the truth about their heritage. Overnight, Greg Williams became black. In this extraordinary and powerful memoir, Williams recounts his remarkable journey along the color line and illuminates the contrasts between the black and white worlds: one of privilege, opportunity and comfort, the other of deprivation, repression, and struggle. He tells of the hostility and prejudice he encountered all too often, from both blacks and whites, and the surprising moments of encouragement and acceptance he found from each. Life on the Color Line is a uniquely important book. It is a wonderfully inspiring testament of purpose, perseverance, and human triumph. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois
Title W.E.B. Du Bois PDF eBook
Author Bill Mullen
Publisher Revolutionary Lives
Total Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre African American intellectuals
ISBN 9780745335056

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Accessible introduction to the life and times of one of the toweringfigures of the American Civil Rights movement.

Cutting Along the Color Line

Cutting Along the Color Line
Title Cutting Along the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Quincy T. Mills
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages 337
Release 2013-11-21
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0812245415

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Examines the history of black-owned barber shops in the United States, from pre-Civil War Era through today.

Following the Color Line

Following the Color Line
Title Following the Color Line PDF eBook
Author Ray Stannard Baker
Publisher
Total Pages 396
Release 1908
Genre African Americans
ISBN

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