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• Author : Briana A Thomas
• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• Release : 10 September 2018

A history of the African American neighborhood and its remarkable residents in our nation’s capital. Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington’s Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses here and built what was often described as a “city within a city.” Local author

• Author : Judson L. Jeffries
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release : 01 February 2018

This is the third volume in Judson L. Jeffries’s long-range effort to paint a more complete portrait of the most widely known organization to emerge from the 1960s Black Power Movement. Like its predecessors (Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party [2007] and On the Ground: The Black Panther Party in Communities across America [2010]), this volume looks at Black Panther Party (BPP) activity in sites outside Oakland, the most studied BPP locale and the one long associated with

• Author : Robert Harrison
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 15 August 2011

In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts to reshape civil and political relations, with the capital a testing ground for Congressional policy makers. The study describes the ways in which federal agencies such as the Army and

• Author : Booker T Washington,Geraldine E McTigue,Louis R Harlan
• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• Release : 01 August 1981

The memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career.

• Author : Ted Leavengood
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 19 September 2006

Here is the story of the 2005 Washington Nationals. Told from a fan's perspective, the narrative begins inside RFK on opening day, expressing the simple pleasures of baseball that 34 years couldn't erase. As the team took one series after another, baseball fans quickly forgot that many on the roster had ever played to empty seats in Montreal. Descriptive prose covers each game, from the crack of Brad Wilkerson's bat to Livan Hernandez's eight-inning outings.

• Author : Terry Allan Hicks
• Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
• Release : 01 January 2014

This book explores the geography, climate, history, people, government, and economy of Washington, D.C. All books in the It's My State! ® series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.

• Author : Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult,Paul Gardullo
• Publisher : Smithsonian Books
• Release : 07 January 2009

Nearly a century's worth of Scurlock photographs combine to form a searing portrait of black Washington in all its guises—its challenges and its victories, its dignity and its determination. Beginning in the early twentieth century and continuing into the 1990s, Addison Scurlock, followed by his sons, Robert and George, used their cameras to document and celebrate a community unique in the world, and a stronghold in the history and culture of the nation's capital. Through photographs of formal weddings,

• Author : Raymond Smock
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 18 May 2022

Interprets the life of Booker T. Washington, exploring his rise from slavery to become an influential educator and African American leader.

• Author : Derek Gray
• Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
• Release : 07 March 2022

Founded in March 1912, DC branch of the NAACP quickly became the leading organization advocating for the city's Black community. President Woodrow Wilson's institution of Jim Crow segregation in the federal government in the spring of 1913 galvanized the African American community of DC and the NAACP launched a formidable crusade against Wilson's racist policies. As the preeminent civil rights organization of the nation's capital, it also developed a dual role as a watchdog body to prevent the passage of legislation in

• Author : United States. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 May 1985

• Author : Hamilton Cravens
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release : 18 May 2022

What happens when the allegedly value-free social sciences enter the national political arena? In The Social Sciences Go to Washington, scholars examine the effects of the massive influx of sociologists, demographers, economists, educators, and others to the federal advisory process in the postwar period. Essays look at how these social scientists sought to change existing policies in welfare, public health, urban policy, national defense, environmental policy, and science and technology policy, and the ways they tried to influence future policies.

• Author : Raymond Smock
• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• Release : 18 May 2022

An important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington that collects Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader

• Author : Roberta J. Newman,Joel Nathan Rosen
• Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
• Release : 03 March 2014

Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations—Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. Inextricably bound together by circumstance, these sports and business alliances faced destruction and upheaval. Once Jackie Robinson and a select handful of black baseball’s elite gained acceptance in Major

• Author : Torrey Maloof
• Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
• Release : 29 March 2018

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: This intriguing nonfiction book builds literacy skills while immersing students in subject area content. You Are There! March on Washington, August 28, 1963 brings this historic day to life, and highlights the critical details of the march and explores its aftermath and effects. Developed by Timothy Rasinski and featuring TIME content, this high-interest book includes essential text features like an index, captions, glossary, and table of contents. The intriguing sidebars, detailed images, and in-depth Reader's Guide require

• Author : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 11 March 2013

"Ford and Carver had a unique friendship and a shared vision. This book details their paths to "green" manufacturing and the start of the chemurgic movement in America. The story shows how capitalism can drive the green movement and expand American industry"--Provided by publisher.