Attributions and Race Are Critical: Perceived Criticism in a Sample of African American and White Community Participants

This chapter discusses Church’s waning influence and subsequent shift to more radical political activism in the 1930s and 1940s. Church resigned his position at the NAACP and argued with the newly appointed Walter White. While he remained respected as an African American leader, his relationship with the white community became increasingly adversarial. His fallout with Boss Crump in the 1930s led to Crump directly attacking him. At the same time, his relationship with socialist labor leader A. Philip Randolph became closer. The chapter ends with a discussion of the erasure of Church’s legacy in Memphis immediately after his death, and his daughter’s mission to restore it.

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Goat Castle

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469635033.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Karen L. Cox

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Black Woman ◽

Jim Crow ◽

White Community ◽

The Press ◽

Wild Man ◽

Racial Injustice ◽

True Crime ◽

The City ◽

Jim Crow South

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery—known in the press as the “Wild Man” and the “Goat Woman”—enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage when it came to light that Dana and Dockery, the alleged murderers, shared their huge, decaying antebellum mansion with their goats and other livestock, which prompted journalists to call the estate “Goat Castle.” Pearls was killed by an Arkansas policeman in an unrelated incident before he could face trial. However, as was all too typical in the Jim Crow South, the white community demanded “justice,” and an innocent black woman named Emily Burns was ultimately sent to prison for the murder of Merrill. Dana and Dockery not only avoided punishment but also lived to profit from the notoriety of the murder by opening their derelict home to tourists. Strange, fascinating, and sobering, Goat Castle tells the story of this local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.

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Predictors of 4-Year Retention Among African American and White Community-Dwelling Participants in the UAB Study of Aging

The Gerontologist ◽

10.1093/geront/gnr024 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 51 (Supplement 1) ◽

pp. S46-S58 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

R. M. Allman ◽

P. Sawyer ◽

M. Crowther ◽

H. S. Strothers ◽

T. Turner ◽

...

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

White Community

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Quality of Effort and Career Preparation Differences Between African American and White Community College Students

Community College Journal of Research and Practice ◽

10.1080/10668920902917450 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 34 (9) ◽

pp. 738-754 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Thomas Walker ◽

Frances Pearson ◽

Patricia Murrell

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Community College ◽

African American ◽

Community College Students ◽

Career Preparation ◽

Quality Of Effort ◽

White Community

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Falls in African American and White Community-Dwelling Elderly Residents

The Journals of Gerontology Series A ◽

10.1093/gerona/57.7.m473 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 57 (7) ◽

pp. M473-M478 ◽

Cited By ~ 78

Author(s):

J. T. Hanlon ◽

L. R. Landerman ◽

G. G. Fillenbaum ◽

S. Studenski

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

White Community

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The role of African Americans in Philadelphia sound change

Language Variation and Change ◽

10.1017/s0954394513000240 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

William Labov

Keyword(s):

African American ◽

African Americans ◽

20Th Century ◽

Residential Segregation ◽

White Community ◽

Fine Grained ◽

Vowel Systems ◽

Degree Of Participation ◽

High Degree

AbstractA number of studies of African American communities show a tendency to approximate the phonological patterns of the surrounding mainstream white community. An analysis of the vowel systems of 36 African American speakers in the Philadelphia Neighborhood Corpus compares their development over the 20th century with that of the mainstream community. For vowels involved in change in the white community, African Americans show very different patterns, often moving in opposite directions. The traditional split of short-a words into tense and lax categories is a more fine-grained measure of dialect relations. The degree of participation by African Americans is described by measures of bimodality, which are applied as well to the innovative nasal short-a system. The prototypical African American speakers show no bimodality in either measure, recombining the traditional tense and lax categories into a single short-a in lower mid, nonperipheral position. The lack of relation between the two short-a systems is related to the high degree of residential segregation, in that linguistic contact is largely diffusion among adults rather than the faithful transmission found among children.

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