No Strings Attached: Philanthropy, Race, and Donor Control From Black Power to Black Lives Matter

2022 ◽  
pp. 089976402110573
Author(s):  
Claire Dunning
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American History ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Black Power ◽  
African American History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Donor Control ◽  
United Front ◽  
Giving Circles ◽  
The City

This article examines a moment of crisis and experimentation in philanthropy from the late 1960s to analyze how race shapes philanthropy. Specifically, it considers two giving circles in Boston launched as a linked funding initiative to address economic and racial inequality: (a) a group of wealthy, White suburbanites who started the Fund for Urban Negro Development to direct donations with “no strings attached” to the other, (b) the Boston Black United Front Foundation, an entity started by Black power activists in the city. Using archival records of the two groups, I analyze their efforts to decouple hierarchies of race and giving in funder–grantee relationships, and connect scholarship on African American history and philanthropy to that on donor control. I frame the notion of “no strings attached” giving as relative and shaped by positioning and identity in ways that produce multiple understandings of the material and abstract “strings” of philanthropy.

Cultural Fronts and Public-History Activism in the Black Power Era

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Rocksborough-Smith
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American History ◽  
Public History ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
African American History ◽  
Black Arts ◽  
The 1960S

The fourth chapter of this book examines how important intergenerational discussions revolved around black public-history labors in Chicago into the Black Power era. Many Chicago activists of the Black Power and black arts movements (BAM) were impacted by the growing influence over the 1960s of the DuSable Museum of African American History, whose programs were expanding and continuing to reach younger generations as the museum’s founders had intended. BAM leaders in Chicago—such as Haki Madhubuti and pioneering black-studies historians—were mentored by Margaret and Charles Burroughs and some of the cohort who founded the DuSable Museum.

Black Power Children's Literature: Julius Lester and Black Power

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
NICK BATHO
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American History ◽  
Black Power ◽  
African American History ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Black Power Movement ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Racial Tension ◽  
The Usa

This article examines a small selection of children's books by Julius Lester, a black power activist, considering them in the context of the black power movement. Lester is frequently cited for his activism and polemical works on black power but no study of his works for children has yet been published. The works considered in this article provide an example of how children's books during this period reflected aspects of black power ideology, language and imagery. Whilst books for black children in the USA had a long history of trying to instil racial pride and knowledge of African American history, these efforts were nevertheless restricted for various reasons. This article argues that it was the black power movement that provided a context in which books directed at black children could flourish. Librarians, activists, educators and publishers now engaged in providing literature for black children in a more comprehensive and directed way than before. Within this context, authors like Julius Lester could write books that celebrated African American history and folklore and could at the same time address issues of racial tension and white cultural hegemony.

Synthetic learning environment games: Prototyping a humanities-based game for teaching African American history

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adams Greenwood-Ericksen ◽  
Stephen M. Fiore ◽  
Rudy McDaniel ◽  
Sandro Scielzo ◽  
Janis A. Cannon-Bowers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History

James Oliver Horton, 1943–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melani McAlister
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Us History ◽  
Local Branch ◽  
Gathering Place

In October 2017, hundreds of faculty, friends, and former students gathered at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to remember James Oliver “Jim” Horton. It was a fitting gathering place. As the museum’s director, Lonnie Bunch, commented, Jim’s legacy is everywhere at the museum, from the fact that several of his former doctoral students are now curators to the foundational commitment of the museum itself: that African American history is not a local branch of US history but integral to its core. Jim always insisted in his lectures and classes and on his many TV appearances and public engagements that “American history is African American history.” 

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