The Roving Dictator of the Lincoln Belt

2019 ◽  
pp. 30-52
Author(s):  
Darius J. Young
Keyword(s):  
Black Community ◽  
James Weldon Johnson ◽  
Subsequent Reaction ◽  
Legal Violence ◽  
Local Leader ◽  
The City ◽  
Black Voters

This chapter begins by discussing the 1917 lynching of Ell Persons and the subsequent reaction of the black community to this extra-legal violence. In the aftermath of the lynching Church and his friend James Weldon Johnson used the platform of the Lincoln League to rally more support from black voters in the city, and helped to establish an NAACP branch in Memphis. As a result, Church would be named the director of the NAACP’s southern branches, thus cementing his legacy as a local leader.

Introduction: A Movement Architect

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jonathan Fenderson
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Stated Goal ◽  
Local Organizations ◽  
Michigan Avenue ◽  
The City ◽  
Protest Chants

On a wintry Monday in December 1969, a small contingent of African American protesters gathered at 1820 South Michigan Avenue just outside the main headquarters of the black-owned Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) in Chicago. Armed with picket signs and protest chants, they dramatically captured the attention of eyewitnesses and bewildered employees inside the building. Included among the demonstrators were several artists, intellectuals, and activists from a variety of local organizations—a genuine cross-section of the Black creative community in the city. In their efforts to seize the attention of JPC’s founding owner and president, John H. Johnson, the group staged the protest with the stated goal to make the company “truly representative of the Black community.”...

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marne L. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Great Migration ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
The Great Migration ◽  
The City

Most histories that have been written about black Los Angeles center on the community that developed after the Great Migration. After all, the amount of newer arrivals dwarfed the small numbers who had settled in the city before. These histories take advantage of a richer historical record than what remains of the earlier period of settlement, where migrants’ experiences were virtually unknown. But that does not mean they were non ex is tent. In fact, when one looks closely, one finds a small, thriving black community that worked closely with other racial and ethnic communities in order to maintain itself. This early black community, made up almost entirely of working-class people, together with a very small elite class, created black Los Angeles....

scholarly journals LA DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL A LAS COMUNIDADES NEGRAS: ANÁLISIS DESDE EL DIARIO EL UNIVERSAL DE CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
Jesús Natividad Pérez Palomino ◽  
Neidy Gutiérrez Soza
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
The City

Este artículo abordó las noticias relacionadas con las comunidades negras, principalmente referidas a la discriminación racial y racismo en la sección “Cartagena”, cronológicamente dos años (2012 y 2013). La sección “Cartagena”, la segunda en importancia en el diario El Universal, donde se recogen las principales problemáticas de la ciudad.Este análisis del discurso de los textos escritos, se ha basado en la realidad de las comunidades negras y cómo asumen el abordaje de estas noticias, principalmente la discriminación racial. Además de la concepción que tienen los periodistas, igualmente los líderes y lideresas de la comunidad.Entre los resultados se identificó que los periodistas del diario El Universal, tienen conocimientos generales sobre lo que es el racismo y la discriminación racial establecida en tres categorías tales como: desprecio, rechazo y exclusión. En el período de la investigación, el Diario Universal en la sección Cartagena desarrolló 67 noticias relacionadas con la comunidad negra de las cuales solamente 9 abordaron sobre la discriminación racial.SummaryThis article addressed the news related to black communities, mainly regarding racial discrimination and racism in the "Cartagena" section, based chronologically on two years: 2012 and 2013. The "Cartagena" section is the second largest in the newspaper El Universal, where the main problems of the city are collected.This discourse analysis of written texts, has been based on the realities of black communities and how they assume these news, particularly racial discrimination. As well as the conception that the journalists and leaders from the community have.Among the results we identified that the journalists of the newspaper El Universal, have general knowledge about what is racism and racial discrimination, and it’s established in three categories such as: hatred, rejection and exclusion. In the period of investigation, the Universal Newspaper in Cartagena section developed 67 news related to the black community of which only 9 addressed information on racial discrimination.

Constructing Identity in Seneca Village

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-180
Author(s):  
Diana Dizerega Wall ◽  
Nan A. Rothschild ◽  
Meredith B. Linn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Black Community ◽  
York City ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Central Park ◽  
The City

This chapter explores the issue of identity in Seneca Village, a nineteenth-century, middle-class, black community located in what is now Central Park in New York City. The city evicted the residents in 1857, and until recently this important village was forgotten. Using information from historical documents and material culture (including landscaping and both the form and decoration of dishes) excavated from the site in 2011, this study examines the intersection of class, race, and nationality. The evidence suggests that the identity of at least one family there was made of many strands: they may have identified themselves as members of the black middle class, as Americans, as African Americans, and perhaps even as Africans, depending on the situation and the audience. Skillful use of these strands may have been one way in which this and other village families attempted to ameliorate oppression and to make a place for themselves.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry Gershenhorn
Keyword(s):  
Black Community ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The City ◽  
Speaking Truth To Power

After Austin’s death in 1971, his daughter Vivian Edmonds published the paper from 1971 until 2002. Under Edmonds’ leadership, the paper continued to provide an important voice for the black community, especially during the 1970s and 1980s, when blacks succeeded in increasing their political power in the city and county of Durham. Since 2002, Edmonds’s son Kenneth has published the newspaper. Austin’s daughter and grandson have carried on Louis Austin’s legacy of speaking truth to power, providing a critical voice for the black community in Durham.

Changes for Mrs. Thornton’s Arthur: Patterns of Domestic Service in Washington, DC, 1800–1835

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-379
Author(s):  
Stephanie Cole
Keyword(s):  
Black Community ◽  
Domestic Service ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Free Black ◽  
Snow Storm ◽  
Subsequent Capture ◽  
The City

Several hours before dawn on 5 August 1835, a Washington slave slipped into his mistress’s bedroom, axe in hand. Anna Maria Thornton awoke to see a drunken Arthur, her longtime house slave and the son of her trusted cook and maid, Maria, threatening her with, she believed, murder. Luckily for Mrs. Thornton, Maria was in the room and, “being fortunately awake, seized him & got him out” while her mistress sounded the alarm to the neighbors. Shocked and horrified, Mrs. Thornton recorded in her diary the attack and Arthur’s escape, subsequent capture, and criminal indictment (Thornton, Aug.—Oct. 1835). Some of Washington’s less reputable citizens reacted with hate and violence. In the ensuing days, out-of-work white mechanics gathered at the steps of the city hall, looking for a scapegoat for the disorder Arthur represented. On 12 August the mob turned its wrath on the vulnerable free black community. The “Snow Storm,” named for a victim of its destruction, free black Beverly Snow, was Washington’s most infamous riot. The crowd burned Snow’s restaurant, along with several other symbols of free black success (Werner 1986: 243–45; Curry 1981: 99–100).

Fighting for Freedom

Walking Raddy ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Jessica Marie Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Black Community ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Enslaved Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women Of African Descent ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Free Women ◽  
The City

Since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enslaved and free women of African descent have been central to New Orleans’ culture and black community formation. Enslaved women of African descent who secured manumission—or legal documentation of their freedom—laid the foundation for the vibrant and politically savvy black community that would emerge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The fight for freedom, however, would be long and winding, with complicated successes and failures reflecting diversity and conflict within and among women of African descent, as well as the changing geopolitical terrain the city was founded on and remained situated in throughout its long history. Recovering the voices of these early, founding women—the political and cultural ancestors of the Baby Dolls—is crucial to developing a history of women of African descent’s defiance and resistance to both racial and gendered oppression across New Orleans history.

A Quiet Rage Explodes

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Laura Warren Hill
Keyword(s):  
Black Community ◽  
Private Property ◽  
National Guard ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This chapter traces the eruption of the Black community in response to police brutality, noting July 24, 1964 as one of the era's very first “race riots” that occurred in Rochester. It discusses how a response to police brutality ended as an indictment of the economic conditions in Rochester's ghettoes. It also argues that the three-day rebellion, which ended with the calling up of the National Guard, became a watershed moment in the city of Rochester. The chapter describes the impressive degree of precision that those men and women, youth and senior citizens demonstrated in the rebellion when they attacked the police and private property with vengeance, but exempted community institutions and stores with a reputation for fairness. It investigates the 1964 uprising that seared Black Rochester into the nation's conscience, noting the uprising as the beginning of a series of Black rebellions that rocked the nation's urban centers in the 1960s.

The Constitution and Black America

1984 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
E. Wally Miles
Keyword(s):  
Black Community ◽  
Black History ◽  
Black America ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
History Of ◽  
Atlanta University ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Rich History

During the week of June 20, 1983 twenty-five historians and political scientists gathered for a seminar concerning “The Constitution and Black America.” Most of the participating faculty were very positive in their evaluations of the program; many, in fact, stated that its usefulness exceeded their expectations.The location of the seminar at Atlanta University, in Georgia was described by one of the participants as “perfect” in light of the themes which were to be discussed. The university and the city provided both an appropriate environment and relevant resources for the faculty who attended.The Atlanta University complex has a rich history of contributions to the black community and possesses a repository of special collections concerning black history and the quest for equality.

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