Shelter in a Time of Storm : How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism
Jelani M. Favors;Jelani M. Favors
2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award2020 Lillian Smith Book AwardF...
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Shelter in a Time of Storm : How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism
2019
2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award2020 Lillian Smith Book AwardFinalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book PrizeFor generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism.Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten'second curriculum'at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.
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African American student movements--History - African American universities and colleges--History - African Americans--Race identity--History - African American college students--Political activity--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Education Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Henry T. Sampson;Henry T. Sampson
Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to tha...
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2014
Published in 1980, Blacks in Blackface was the first and most extensive book up to that time to deal exclusively with every aspect of all-African American musical comedies performed on the stage between 1900 and 1940. An invaluable resource for scholars and historians focused on African American culture, this new edition features significantly revised, expanded, and new material.In Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows, Henry T. Sampson provides an unprecedented wealth of information on legitimate musical comedies, including show synopses, casts, songs, and production credits. Sampson also recounts the struggles of African American performers and producers to overcome the racial prejudice of white show owners, music publishers, theatre managers, and booking agents to achieve adequate financial compensation for their talents and managerial expertise. Black producers and artists competed with white managers who were producing all-Black shows and also with some white entertainers who were performing Black -developed music and dances, often in blackface.The chapters in this volume include:An overview of African American musical shows from the end of the Civil War through the golden years of the 1920s and'30sNew and expanded biographical sketches of performersDetailed information about the first producers and owners of Black minstrel and musical comedy showsOrigins and backgrounds of several famous Black theatresProfiles of African American entrepreneurs and businessmen who provided financial resources to build and own many of the Black theatres where these shows were performedA chronicle of booking agencies and organized Black theatrical circuits, music publishing houses, and phonograph recording businessesCritical commentary from African American newspapers and show business publicationsMore than 500 hundred rare photographsA comprehensive volume that covers all aspects of Black musical shows performed in theatres, nightclubs, circuses, and medicine shows, this edition of Blacks in Blackface can be used as a reference for serious scholars and researchers of Black show business in the United States before 1940. More than double the size of the previous edition, this useful resource will also appeal to the casual reader who is interested in learning more about early Black entertainment.
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Revues--United States--History and criticism - African American entertainersContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The World of Jim Crow America : A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]
Steven A. Reich;Steven A. Reich
This two-volume set is a thematically-arranged encyclopedia covering the social, polit...
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The World of Jim Crow America : A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]
2019
This two-volume set is a thematically-arranged encyclopedia covering the social, political, and material culture of America during the Jim Crow Era.What was daily life really like for ordinary African American people in Jim Crow America, the hundred-year period of enforced legal segregation that began immediately after the Civil War and continued until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965? What did they eat, wear, believe, and think? How did they raise their children? How did they interact with government? What did they value? What did they do for fun? This Daily Life encyclopedia explores the lives of average people through the examination of social, cultural, and material history. Supported by the most current research, the multivolume set examines social history topics—including family, political, religious, and economic life—as it illuminates elements of a society's emotional life, interactions, opinions, views, beliefs, intimate relationships, and connections between individuals and the greater world. It is broken up into topical sections, each dealing with a different aspect of cultural life. Each section opens with an introductory essay, followed by A–Z entries on various aspects of that topic.
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African Americans--Social life and customs--Encyclopedias - African Americans--History--1877-1964--Encyclopedias - African Americans--Segregation--History--Encyclopedias - African Americans--Material culture--History--Encyclopedias - Racism--United States--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Race and Ethnicity in America : From Pre-contact to the Present [4 Volumes]
Russell M. Lawson;Benjamin A. Lawson;Russell M. Lawson;Benjamin A. Lawson
Divided into four volumes, Race and Ethnicity in America provides a complete overview ...
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Race and Ethnicity in America : From Pre-contact to the Present [4 Volumes]
2019
Divided into four volumes, Race and Ethnicity in America provides a complete overview of the history of racial and ethnic relations in America, from pre-contact to the present.The five hundred years since Europeans made contact with the indigenous peoples of America have been dominated by racial and ethnic tensions. During the colonial period, from 1500 to 1776, slavery and servitude of whites, blacks , and Indians formed the foundation for race and ethnic relations. After the American Revolution, slavery, labor inequalities, and immigration led to racial and ethnic tensions; after the Civil War, labor inequalities, immigration, and the fight for civil rights dominated America's racial and ethnic experience. From the 1960s to the present, the unfulfilled promise of civil rights for all ethnic and racial groups in America has been the most important sociopolitical issue in America. Race and Ethnicity in America tells this story of the fight for equality in America. The first volume spans pre-contact to the American Revolution; the second, the American Revolution to the Civil War; the third, Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement; and the fourth, the Civil Rights Movement to the present. All volumes explore the culture, society, labor, war and politics, and cultural expressions of racial and ethnic groups.
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Ethnology--United States--History--Encyclopedias - Minorities--United States--History--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959
Graham Webb;Graham Webb
Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere f...
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Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959
2020
Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a'filler'in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts. With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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Short films--United States--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Careers & Employment Canada, 2021
Grey House Publishing Canada;Grey House Publishing Canada
Careers & Employment Canada is a valuable reference tool that gives job seekers and ca...
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Careers & Employment Canada, 2021
2020
Careers & Employment Canada is a valuable reference tool that gives job seekers and career explorers an edge in today's job market. Users will be able to access leads they may not have heard about if it weren't for this great new resource, in print and online. In addition, self-assessment tests assist people in exploring what career is the right fit, while relevant websites provide further information to help them determine a career path.
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Job hunting--Canada--DirectoriesContent provider:
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost)
The 1910s in America
Lewis, Thomas T.;Lewis, Thomas T.
Its more than 350 essays cover the full breadth of North American history and culture ...
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The 1910s in America
2019
Its more than 350 essays cover the full breadth of North American history and culture throughout the decade.
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Nineteen tensContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Television Pilots : 2,470 Films Broadcast 1937-2019, 2d Ed.
Vincent Terrace;Vincent Terrace
On November 27, 1937, NBC presented TV's first pilot film, Sherlock Holmes (then calle...
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Encyclopedia of Television Pilots : 2,470 Films Broadcast 1937-2019, 2d Ed.
2019
On November 27, 1937, NBC presented TV's first pilot film, Sherlock Holmes (then called an'experiment'). Thousands of pilot films (both unaired and televised) have been produced since. This updated and restyled book contains 2,470 alphabetically arranged pilot films broadcast from 1937 to 2019. Entries contain the concept, cast and character information, credits (producer, writer, director), dates, genre and network or cable affiliation. In addition to a complete performer's index, two appendices have been included: one detailing the pilot films that led to a series and a second that lists the programs that were spun off from one series into another. Never telecast pilot films can be found in the companion volume, The Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018. Both volumes are the most complete and detailed sources for such information, a great deal of which is based on viewing the actual programs.
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Television programs--United States--Plots, themes, etc.--Encyclopedias - Television pilot programs--United States--EncyclopediasContent provider:
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost)
Bonica's Management of Pain
Jane C. Ballantyne;Scott M. Fishman;James P. Rathmell;Jane C. Ballantyne;Sc...
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Bonica's Management of Pain
2019
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from 3rd Party sellers are not guaranteed by the Publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. This exhaustively comprehensive edition of the classic Bonica's Management of Pain, first published 65 years ago, expertly combines the scientific underpinnings of pain with clinical management. Completely revised, it discusses a wide variety of pain conditions—including neuropathic pain, pain due to cancer, and acute pain situations—for adults as well as children. An international group of the foremost experts provides comprehensive, current, clinically oriented coverage of the entire field. The contributors describe contemporary clinical practice and summarize the evidence that guides clinical practice.
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Analgesia - Chronic pain--Treatment - Pain--TreatmentContent provider:
eBook Medical Collection (EBSCOhost)
McNeill, Lydia
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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 2006.
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JUNE 23, 1884JULY 24, 1970 The sociologist and minister Gordon Hancock was born in rur...
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Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 2006.
JUNE 23, 1884JULY 24, 1970 The sociologist and minister Gordon Hancock was born in rural Ninety-Six, a township in Greenwood County, South Carolina. He was educated in Newberry, a neighboring […]
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South Carolina - African American leadership - African American sociologists - Black-white relations - Hancock, Gordon BlaineContent provider:
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Small Business Sourcebook : The Entrepreneur's Resource: General Small Business Resources (Includes State and Federal Sections) (Entries 44679-48065). 2024, p3171-3386.
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Small Business Sourcebook : The Entrepreneur's Resource: General Small Business Resources (Includes State and Federal Sections) (Entries 44679-48065). 2024, p3171-3386.
Master Index NUMERICS 1-800-Got-Junk L.L.C. 1-800-Radiator 1st Source Capital Corp. 3+ Corporation 3 Day Startup (3DS) — [585], [19651], [33321] The 3i Show 3Pe Consulting ' 4 Leaf Consulting '4 [...]
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Critical Survey of Drama
Rollyson, Carl E.;Rollyson, Carl E.
Contains over 650 new and updated essays—over 550 discuss individual dramatists and ne...
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Critical Survey of Drama
2018
Contains over 650 new and updated essays—over 550 discuss individual dramatists and nearly 100 cover important overview topics that are critical to the study of drama as a whole.
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Drama--History and criticism--Dictionaries - Drama--DictionariesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
If I Survive : Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
Bernier, Celeste-Marie;Taylor, Andrew;Bernier, Celeste-Marie;Taylor, Andrew
Marking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass'birth, this first collective histo...
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If I Survive : Frederick Douglass and Family in the Walter O. Evans Collection
2018
Marking the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass'birth, this first collective history and comprehensive collection of the Douglass family writings and portraits sheds new light not only on Douglass as a freedom-fighter and family man but on the lives and works of Lewis Henry, Frederick Jr., and Charles Remond.
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American Revolution : The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 Volumes]
Spencer C. Tucker;Spencer C. Tucker
With more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of the American Re...
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American Revolution : The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection [5 Volumes]
2018
With more than 1,300 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of the American Revolution, this definitive scholarly reference covers the causes, course, and consequences of the war and the political, social, and military origins of the nation.This authoritative and complete encyclopedia covers not only the eight years of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) but also the decades leading up to the war, beginning with the French and Indian War, and the aftermath of the conflict, with an emphasis on the early American Republic. Volumes one through four contain a series of overview essays on the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution, followed by impeccably researched A–Z entries that address the full spectrum of political, social, and military matters that arose from the conflict. Each entry is cross-referenced to other entries and also lists books for further reading. In addition, there is a detailed bibliography, timeline, and glossary.A fifth volume is devoted to primary sources, each of which is accompanied by an insightful introduction that places the document in its proper historical context. The primary sources help readers to understand the myriad motivations behind the American Revolution; the diplomatic, military, and political maneuvering that took place during the conflict; and landmark documents that shaped the founding and early development of the United States.
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eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost)
A Class of Their Own : Black Teachers in the Segregated South
Adam Fairclough;Adam Fairclough
In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyss...
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A Class of Their Own : Black Teachers in the Segregated South
2007
In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. No book until now has provided us with the full story of what African American teachers tried, achieved, and failed to do in educating the Southern black population over this critical century.This magisterial narrative offers a bold new vision of black teachers, built from the stories of real men and women, from teachers in one-room shacks to professors in red brick universities. Fairclough explores how teachers inspired and motivated generations of children, instilling values and knowledge that nourished racial pride and a desire for equality. At the same time, he shows that they were not just educators, but also missionaries, politicians, community leaders, and racial diplomats. Black teachers had to negotiate constantly between the white authorities who held the purse strings and the black community's grassroots resistance to segregated standards and white power. Teachers were part of, but also apart from, the larger black population. Often ignored, and occasionally lambasted, by both whites and blacks , teachers were tireless foot soldiers in the long civil rights struggle.Despite impossible odds—discrimination, neglect, sometimes violence—black teachers engaged in a persistent and ultimately heroic struggle to make education a means of liberation. A Class of Their Own is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted and coexisted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities developed and coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.
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African American teachers--Southern States--History - African Americans--Education--Southern States--History - Segregation in education--United States - African American educators--Southern States--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings
Steve Sullivan;Steve Sullivan
Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides...
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Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings
2017; Vol. 00003
Volumes 3 and 4 of the The Encyclopedia of More Great Popular Song Recordings provides the stories behind approximately 1,700 more of the greatest song recordings in the history of the music industry, from 1890 to today. In this masterful survey, all genres of popular music are covered, from pop, rock, soul, and country to jazz, blues, classic vocals, hip-hop, folk, gospel, and ethnic/world music. Collectors will find detailed discographical data—recording dates, record numbers, Billboard chart data, and personnel—while music lovers will appreciate the detailed commentaries and deep research on the songs, their recording, and the artists. Readers who revel in pop cultural history will savor each chapter as it plunges deeply into key events—in music, society, and the world—from each era of the past 125 years. Following in the wake of the first two volumes of his original Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, this follow-up work covers not only more beloved classic performances in pop music history, but many lesser -known but exceptional recordings that—in the modern digital world of “long tail” listening, re-mastered recordings, and “lost but found” possibilities—Sullivan mines from modern recording history. The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volumes 3 and 4 lets the readers discover, and, through their playlist services, from such as iTunes toand Spotify, build a truly deepcomprehensive catalog of classic performances that deserve to be a part of every passionate music lover's life. Sullivan organizes songs in chronological order, starting in 1890 and continuing all the way throughto the present to include modern gems from June 2016. In each chapter, Sullivanhe immerses readers, era by era, in the popular music recordings of the time, noting key events that occurred at the time to painting a comprehensive picture in music history of each periodfor each song. Moreover, Sullivan includes for context bulleted lists noting key events that occurred during the song's recording
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Popular music--History and criticism - Popular music--DiscographyContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Bill of Rights
Lewis, Thomas T.;Lewis, Thomas T.
A comprehensive survey of all aspects of the U.S. Bill of Rights; from its origins to ...
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The Bill of Rights
2017
A comprehensive survey of all aspects of the U.S. Bill of Rights; from its origins to its role in modern American history.
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Civil rights--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Critical Survey of World Literature, Third Edition
Robert C. Evans;Robert C. Evans
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from o...
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Critical Survey of World Literature, Third Edition
2017
A unique combination of biography and critical analysis, covering major writers from outside the United States and their significant works in fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction.
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Authors--Biography--Dictionaries - Literature--Bio-bibliography - Literature--History and criticism - Literature--Stories, plots, etcContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Clio's Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians
Doug Munro;John G. Reid;Doug Munro;John G. Reid
Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and Nor...
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Clio's Lives : Biographies and Autobiographies of Historians
2017
Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so. Beginning with the writing of autobiographies by historians, the volume then turns to biographical studies, both of historians whose writings were in some sense nation-defining and those who may be regarded as having had a major influence on defining the discipline of history. The final section explores elements of collective biography, linking these to the formation of historical networks. A concluding essay by Barbara Caine offers a critical appraisal of the study of historians'biographies and autobiographies to date, and maps out likely new directions for future work.Clio's Lives is a very good scholarly collection that advances the study of autobiography and biography within the writing of history itself, taking theoretical questions in significant new directions. The contributors are well known and highly respected in the history profession and write with an insight and intellectual energy that will ensure the book has considerable impact. They examine cutting-edge issues about the writing of history at the personal level through autobiography and biography in diverse and innovative ways. Together the writers have provided reflective chapters that will be widely read for their impressive theoretical advances as well as being inspirational for new entrants to the disciplinary area.— Patricia Grimshaw, University of MelbourneClio's Lives brings together a most interesting and varied cast of contributors. Its chapters contain sophisticated and well-penned ruminations on the uses of biography and autobiography among historians. These are clearly connected with the general themes of the volume. This delightfully mixed bag makes very good reading and, as well, will serve as a substantial contribution to the study of the biography and autobiography.— Eric Richards, Flinders University
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Historians--Australia--Biography - Historians--North America--Biography - Authorship in literature--BiographyContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights
Brandon K. Winford;Brandon K. Winford
WINNER OF THE LILLIAN SMITH BOOK AWARDJohn Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the c...
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John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights
2020
WINNER OF THE LILLIAN SMITH BOOK AWARDJohn Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina.Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, this biography explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director.Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners.
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African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Biography - African American bankers--North Carolina--Durham--Biography - Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Biography - Bankers--North Carolina--Durham--Biography - African Americans--North Carolina--Economic conditions - African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Women in Leadership : Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries, Second Edition
Karin Klenke;Karin Klenke
Women leaders in many parts of the world have leadership opportunities that never exis...
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Women in Leadership : Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries, Second Edition
2017
Women leaders in many parts of the world have leadership opportunities that never existed before as a result of technology, globalization, and demographic shifts that have produced more female graduates than in the past and created a workforce which consists almost 50% of women. Ever more so, in today's rapidly changing environment, the contexts in which women exercise leadership is critically important in shaping their leadership style. At the same time, objectifying women in contexts such as sports and the media or the patriarchal ideology that permeates contexts such as the military and the church have changed very little. This book, updated and expanded from the 2011 first edition, acknowledges and discusses the belief that the context in which women exercise leadership is critically important in shaping their leadership style. Each chapter opens with a vignette of an extraordinary leader in the respective context, presents a contextual analysis, and discusses issues, controversies and paradoxes germane to the context of interest. What is the future of women's leadership in a global environment characterized by ambiguity, uncertainty, increasing interdependence and interconnectivity? Award-winning author Karin Klenke shows us in this revised edition of Women in Leadership .
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Leadership in womenContent provider:
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101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina
Bernard E. Powers, Jr;Bernard E. Powers, Jr
The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved pe...
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101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina
2020
The first people of African descent to live in what is now South Carolina, enslaved people living in the sixteenth century Spanish settlements of San Miguel de Gualdape and Santa Elena, arrived even before the first permanent English settlement was established in 1670. For more than 350 years South Carolina's African American population has had a significant influence on the state's cultural, economic, and political development.101 African Americans Who Shaped South Carolina depicts the long presence and profound influence people of African descent have had on the Palmetto State. Each entry offers a brief description of an individual with ties to South Carolina who played a significant role in the history of the state, nation, and, in some cases, world. Drawing upon the landmark text The South Carolina Encyclopedia, edited by Walter Edgar, the combined entries offer a concise and approachable history of the state and the African Americans who have shaped it.A foreword is provided by Walter Edgar, Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina.
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African Americans--South Carolina--BiographyContent provider:
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Music Innovators
Salem Press;Salem Press
Biographies of over 350 individuals who had an innovative and influential impact on th...
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Music Innovators
2016
Biographies of over 350 individuals who had an innovative and influential impact on the development and evolution of the modern music industry.
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Music--History--20th century - Musicians--Biography - Music--History--21st centuryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Annotated Chaucer Bibliography : 1997–2010
Mark Allen;Stephanie Amsel;Mark Allen;Stephanie Amsel
Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoff...
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Annotated Chaucer Bibliography : 1997–2010
2016
Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010, and this bibliography identifies each of them separately, providing publication information and a descriptive summary of contents. The bibliography also offers several useful discovery aids to enable users to locate individual items of interest, whether it be a study of the Wife of Bath's love life, a video about Chaucer's language, advice on how to teach a particular poem by Chaucer, or a murder mystery that features Chaucer as detective. Useful for scholars, teachers and students alike, this volume is a must for academic libraries.
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eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Virginia Women : Their Lives and Times, Volume 2
Cynthia A. Kierner;Sandra Gioia Treadway;Cynthia A. Kierner;Sandra Gioia Tr...
This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women ...
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Virginia Women : Their Lives and Times, Volume 2
2016; Vol. 00002
This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the transition from slavery to freedom in the period following the Civil War through the struggle to secure rights for gay and lesbian women in the late twentieth century. Placing their subjects in their larger historical contexts, the authors show how the experiences of Virginia women varied by race, class, age, and marital status, and also across both space and time.Some essays examine the lives of well-known women—such as Ellen Glasgow and Patsy Cline—from a new perspective. Others introduce readers to historical figures who are less familiar: freedmen schoolteacher Caroline Putnam; reformer Orra Gray Langhorne; Sadie Heath Cabaniss, the founder of professional nursing in Virginia; and Marie Kimball, an early preservationist. Essays on cotton textile workers in the late nineteenth century and home demonstration agents in the early twentieth examine women's collective experiences in these important areas. Altogether, the essays in this collection offer readers an engaging and personal window into the experiences of women in the Old Dominion.
