Preservation Is People

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Oral History ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

The preservation and collection of structures, objects and stories changes significantly in the 1960s and 1970s. Building preservation is democratized as more people and organizations are involved, and different kinds of structures are targeted, including vernacular and recent buildings, and sites associated with African American history. Likewise the collection of vernacular objects and expanded oral history practice also changed at this moment.

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.

Imagining a Black Museum in Cold War Chicago

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Rocksborough-Smith
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cold War ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History ◽  
Black History ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The 1960S

The second chapter of this book looks at how a vision for a black-history museum persisted despite the stifling conditions of Cold War America and deals explicitly with how this vision for a museum existed in the context of the control of black-history celebrations in Chicago in a highly contested struggle among public historians increasingly divided by Cold War<EN>-era ideologies. The chapter traces the left-wing backgrounds of the museum’s founders, which spanned decades of activity and demonstrates how they sustained the vision of the National Negro Museum and Historical Foundation (NNMHF) for a museum in Chicago through the 1960s with the founding of what would become the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Race and Oral History

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert S. Broussard
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Civil Rights Movements

The idea of race against the backdrop of social history is explored in this article. One of the most remarkable developments in the historical profession in the past forty years has been the explosion of African American history and its movement to the center of the American experience. African American history occupied a prominent place in the discussion and in the interpretation of numerous historical eras and controversies. Oral history evidence has illuminated the African American experience during the periods of slavery and reconstruction and the modern civil rights movement. American slavery is a glaring example of race in oral history. U. B. Phillips's American Negro Slavery, published in 1918, argued that slavery was a benign, humane institution, which served primarily as a school of civilization for ignorant, barbaric, and unenterprising Africans. Oral histories of the civil rights movements as recorded in biographies and journals followed by an analysis of new insights winds up this article.

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.” 

African and African American Religions in the Early Americas

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Young
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
African American Religion ◽  
African Religion ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter chronicles the relationship between African religious practices on the continent and African American religion in the plantation Americas in the era of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. A new generation of scholars who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s have demonstrated not only that African religious practices exhibit remarkable subtlety and complexity but also that these cultures have played significant roles in the subsequent development of religious practices throughout the world. Christianity, Islam, and traditional African religion comprised a set of broad and varied religious practices that contributed to the development of creative, subtle, and complex belief systems that circulated around the African Diaspora. In addition, this chapter addresses some of the vexed epistemological challenges related to discussing and describing non-Western ritual and religious practices.

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