James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the College Thomas C Holt's Books

The Movement

The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

By: James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the College Thomas C Holt,Thomas Cleveland Holt

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The Movement

The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

By: James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the College Thomas C Holt,Thomas Cleveland Holt

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, re-centering the narrative around the mobilization of ordinary people.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197525822

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9780197525821

Songs of Zion

The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa

By: James T. Campbell

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Songs of Zion

The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa

By: James T. Campbell

This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the book studies the complex human and intellectual traffic that has bound African American and South African experience. It explores the development and growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church both in South Africa and America, and the interaction between the two churches. This is a highly innovative work of comparative and religious history. Its linking of the United States and African black religious experiences is unique and makes it appealing to readers interested in religious history and black experience in both the United States and South Africa.

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445

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Oxford University Press

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0195360052

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9780195360059

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans

By: James B. Bennett

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Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans

By: James B. Bennett

Drawing on a range of local and personal accounts from the post-Reconstruction period, newspapers, and church records Bennett's analysis challenges the assumption that churches fell into fixed patterns of segregation without a fight. In sacred no less than secular spheres, establishing Jim Crow constituted a long, slow, and complicated journey that extended well into the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

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Princeton University Press

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0691121486

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9780691121482

A Noble and Independent Course

The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell

By: Forrester A. Lee,James S. Pringle

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A Noble and Independent Course

The Life of the Reverend Edward Mitchell

By: Forrester A. Lee,James S. Pringle

In 1828 Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to graduate from Dartmouth College, more than thirty-five years before any other Ivy League school admitted a black student. This book tells Mitchell's life story with the help of a recently rediscovered trove of his college essays, notes on his religious conversion, and hand-copied versions of his sermons. Born and raised in the French slave colony of Martinique, Mitchell immigrated to the United States and came of age in Philadelphia, where he broke bread with the city's African American clerics and civic leaders. The Dartmouth trustees initially denied Mitchell admission but yielded to unified student protest. After his graduation, Mitchell continued his northward journey to serve as a Baptist preacher and evangelist in the pulpits of northern New England. His religious odyssey concluded in Lower Canada, where he was remembered as "the most profound theologian ever settled." During his travels throughout the Atlantic world in an age of revolution and religious revival, Mitchell encountered the dominant social, economic, and political realities of his time. Although long celebrated as the inspiration for Dartmouth's legacy of educating men and women of African ancestry, Mitchell's life story remained unknown for almost two centuries. This book, which embodies history as recovery, is a testament to the authors' desire to know the man behind the story.

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151260285X

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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

By: James Oakes

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The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

By: James Oakes

A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker “My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America—their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393078728

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9780393078725

Frederick Douglass

A Biography

By: C. James Trotman Ph.D.

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Frederick Douglass

A Biography

By: C. James Trotman Ph.D.

Written for young adults, this biography of Frederick Douglass covers the life of the most famous black abolitionist and intellectual of the 19th century. Frederick Douglass: A Biography explores the life of the most famous black abolitionist and intellectual of the 19th century. The book covers the major developments of Douglass's life from his birth in 1818 through his time as a slave and his rise to prominence as the most famous black voice for freedom of his time. The biography discusses Douglass's relationships with such figures as John Brown, the feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and five presidents of the United States, including Abraham Lincoln. It analyzes his role in national politics before, during, and after the Civil War, and examines the way his life is tied to significant local, regional, and national events. By focusing on the importance of spirituality in Douglass's life, this revealing work adds to our understanding of the man, the way he saw himself, and the many things he accomplished.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031335037X

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Herman B Wells

The Promise of the American University

By: James H. Capshew

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Herman B Wells

The Promise of the American University

By: James H. Capshew

Wells built an institution, and, in the process, became one himself.

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Indiana University Press

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0253357209

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Remarks on Bishop Hopkins' Letter on the Bible View of Slavery

By: James May,African American Pamphlet Collection (Li

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Remarks on Bishop Hopkins' Letter on the Bible View of Slavery

By: James May,African American Pamphlet Collection (Li

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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1378038398

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Book's by James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the College Thomas C Holt

The Movement

The Movement

Songs of Zion

Songs of Zion

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans

A Noble and Independent Course

A Noble and Independent Course

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

Herman B Wells

Herman B Wells

Remarks on Bishop Hopkins' Letter on the Bible View of Slavery

Remarks on Bishop Hopkins' Letter on the Bible View of Slavery

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