SUMMER 2017 READINGS Kevin Gaines, African American History

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SUMMER 2017 READINGS Kevin Gaines, African American History (pdf), in American History Now by Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr Gene Jarrett, Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature Meier and Rudwick, Black History and the Historical Profession Read one of the following survey texts: Mary Frances Berry and John W. Blassingame, Long Memory: the Black Experience in America John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, From Slavery to Freedom Thomas C. Holt, Children of Fire James & Lois Horton, Hard Road to Freedom: the Making of African Americans Deborah Gray White et al, Freedom On My Mind AFROAM 701: MAJOR WORKS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES I READING LIST FOR FALL 2017 Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa Sylviane A. Diouf, Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies Edward Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity C.L.R. James, Black Jacobins Jennifer Morgan, Laboring Women Slave Narratives of Douglass, and Jacobs (in Henry Louis Gates Jr., ed. Classic Slave Narratives) Antebellum Poetry, including Phillis Wheatley (in Joan Sherman, selections, African American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Martin Delany, Blake Christopher Phillips, Freedom’s Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860 Herbert Aptheker, American Negro Slave Revolts Benjamin Quarles, Black Abolitionists Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage Leon Litwack, Been in the Storm Too Long W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction Frances E. W. Harper, Iola Leroy Postbellum, Pre-Harlem Renaissance Poetry, including Paul Laurence Dunbar (in Joan Sherman, African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology) Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby, African American Music Charles Chesnutt, The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales W.E.B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk Booker T. Washington, “The Atlanta Compromise” (1895) Shawn Alexander, An Army of Lions Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896- 1920 Bettye Coller-Thomas, Jesus, Jobs and Justice James Anderson, Education of Blacks AFROAM 702: MAJOR WORKS IN AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES II READING LIST FOR SPRING 2018 James Weldon Johnson, Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (in Three Negro Classics) Harlem Renaissance Poetry, including Sterling Brown (in James Weldon Johnson, Book of American Negro Poetry) Jean Toomer, Cane Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Robin D.G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe Patricia Sullivan, Lift Every Voice: NAACP St. Clair Drake, Black Metropolis Martha Biondi, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City Richard Wright, Native Son Ann Petry, The Street Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha and poetry selections in Blacks Mellonee Burnim and Portia Maultsby, African American Music Langston Hughes, The Best of Simple Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man James Baldwin, Go Tell It On The Mountain David L. Lewis, King: A Biography Alex Haley, Autobiography of Malcolm X Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Amiri Baraka, Dutchman (in Call and Response) Black Arts / Post-Black Arts (in Call and Response) Carmichael and Hamilton, Black Power Ernest Gaines, Bloodline Toni Morrison, Beloved Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing N.P. Singh, Black Is a Country .

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8404787 Mitchell, Reavis Lee, Jr. BLACKS IN AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS: A STUDY OF SELECTED THEMES IN POST-1900 COLLEGE LEVEL SURVEYS Middle Tennessee State University D.A. 1983 University Microfilms Internet ion elæ o N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 Copyright 1984 by Mitchell, Reavis Lee, Jr. All Rights Reserved Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. PLEASE NOTE: In all cases this material has been filmed in the best possible way from the available copy. Problems encountered with this document have been identified here with a check mark V 1. Glossy photographs or pages. 2. Colored illustrations, paper or print_____ 3. Photographs with dark background_____ 4. Illustrations are poor copy______ 5. Pages with black marks, not original copy_ 6. Print shows through as there is text on both sides of page. 7. Indistinct, broken or small print on several pages______ 8. Print exceeds margin requirements______ 9. Tightly bound copy with print lost in spine______ 10. Computer printout pages with indistinct print. 11. Page(s)____________ lacking when material received, and not available from school or author. 12. Page(s) 18 seem to be missing in numbering only as text follows. 13. Two pages numbered _______iq . Text follows. 14. Curling and wrinkled pages______ 15. Other ________ University Microfilms International Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. BLACKS IN AMERICAN HISTORY TEXTBOOKS: A STUDY OF SELECTED THEMES IN POST-190 0 COLLEGE LEVEL SURVEYS Reavis Lee Mitchell, Jr. A dissertation presented to the Graduate Faculty of Middle Tennessee State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Arts December, 1983 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner.
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Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives. For more information about Facing History and Ourselves, please visit our website at www.facinghistory.org. Copyright © 2015 by Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Facing History and Ourselves® is a trademark registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office. The photograph used in the background of our front cover depicts the African American and Radical Republican members of the South Carolina legislature in the 1870s. South Carolina had the first state legislature with a black majority. This photo was created by opponents of Radical Reconstruction, and intended to scare the white population. See Lesson 8, “Interracial Democracy” for suggestions about how to use this image in the classroom. Photo credit: Library of Congress (1876). ISBN: 978-1-940457-10-9 Acknowledgments Primary writer: Daniel Sigward This publication was made possible by the support of the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation. Developing this guide was a collaborative effort that required the input and expertise of a variety of people. Many Facing History and Ourselves staff members made invaluable contributions. The guidance of Adam Strom was essential from start to finish. Jeremy Nesoff played a critical role through his partnership with Dan Sigward and, along with Denny Conklin and Jocelyn Stanton, helped to shape the curriculum by providing feedback on numerous drafts.
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The Emancipation Proclamation, an Act of Justice

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The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters

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By Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr., Phd President, African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania June 2020

By Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr., PhD President, African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania June 2020 1838: Pennsylvania State Constitution amended. Article III on voting rights read, in part: “ ith this action men of African descent in Pennsylvania were deprived of a right that many had regularly exercised. The response was W immediate. Some members of the Constitution’s Legislative Committee refused to set their signatures to the document on this exclusion, including State Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Gettysburg. Protest meetings were convened to petition the state legislature to remedy this wrong. Men from Lancaster County were involved in a number of those conventions, notably Stephen Smith and William Whipper, the wealthy Black entrepreneurs and clandestine workers on the Underground Railroad from the Susquehanna Riverfront community of Columbia. This publication commemorates some of the people of Lancaster County who endured generations of disenfranchisement, and who planned and participated in public demonstrations during the Spring of 1870 to celebrate the ratification of the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Amendment states: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Despite the amendment, by the late 1870s discriminatory practices were used to prevent Black people from exercising their right to vote, especially in the South. It wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that legal barriers were outlawed if they denied African-Americans their right to vote. ©—African American Historical Society of South Central Pennsylvania—June 2020 1 n important protest meeting was the convention held in Harrisburg in 1848.