African Americans In Michigan

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African Americans In Michigan

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Author : Lewis Walker
language : en
Publisher: Discovering the Peoples of Mic
Release Date : 2001

African Americans In Michigan written by Lewis Walker and has been published by Discovering the Peoples of Mic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

African Americans, as free laborers and as slaves, were among the earliest permanent residents of Michigan, settling among the French, British, and Native people with whom they worked and farmed. Lewis Walker and Benjamin Wilson recount the long history of African American communities in Michigan, delineating their change over time, as migrants from the South, East, and overseas made their homes in the state. Moreover, the authors show how Michigan's development is inextricably joined with the vitality and strength of its African American residents. In a related chapter, Linwood Cousins examines youth culture and identity in African American schools, linking education with historical and contemporary issues of economics, racism, and power.

Idlewild And Woodland Park Michigan An African American Remembers

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Author : Rose Louise Hammond
language : en
Publisher: Run with It
Release Date : 2008

Idlewild And Woodland Park Michigan An African American Remembers written by Rose Louise Hammond and has been published by Run with It this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.

Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan is one of the countries first African American resorts, owned and operated by African Americans. This book is a historical compilation of interviews conducted during the summers of 1994 and 1995 with some of the few original owners or families still holding property ownership in Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan The reader will see some of the individuals whose families helped to create these two beautiful communities by telling their family's history. Idlewild and Woodland Park, Michigan "An African American Remembers" will let the reader travel in time from the 1900's.

Laws Cases And African Americans In Michigan History To 1950

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Author : Edward J. LittleJohn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Laws Cases And African Americans In Michigan History To 1950 written by Edward J. LittleJohn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with African Americans categories.

We Too Are Americans

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Author : Megan Taylor Shockley
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2004

We Too Are Americans written by Megan Taylor Shockley and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.

During World War II, factories across America retooled for wartime production, and unprecedented labor opportunities opened up for women and minorities. In We, Too, Are Americans, Megan Taylor Shockley examines the experiences of the African American women who worked in two capitols of industry--Detroit, Michigan, and Richmond, Virginia--during the war and the decade that followed it, making a compelling case for viewing World War II as the crucible of the civil rights movement. As demands on them intensified, the women working to provide American troops with clothing, medical supplies, and other services became increasingly aware of their key role in the war effort. A considerable number of the African Americans among them began to use their indispensability to leverage demands for equal employment, welfare and citizenship benefits, fair treatment, good working conditions, and other considerations previously denied them. Shockley shows that as these women strove to redefine citizenship, backing up their claims to equality with lawsuits, sit-ins, and other forms of activism, they were forging tools that civil rights activists would continue to use in the years to come.

The Black Pioneer In Michigan Flint And Genesee County

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Author : Melvin E. Banner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

The Black Pioneer In Michigan Flint And Genesee County written by Melvin E. Banner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with History categories.

Detroit And The Great Migration 1916 1929

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Author : Elizabeth Anne Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993

Detroit And The Great Migration 1916 1929 written by Elizabeth Anne Martin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with African Americans categories.

A City Within A City

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Author : Todd E Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2013

A City Within A City written by Todd E Robinson and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.

A City within a City examines the civil rights movement in the North by concentrating on the struggles for equality in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Historian Todd Robinson studies the issues surrounding school integration and bureaucratic reforms as well as the role of black youth activism to detail the diversity of black resistance. He focuses on respectability within the African American community as a way of understanding how the movement was formed and held together. And he elucidates the oppositional role of northern conservatives regarding racial progress. A City within a City cogently argues that the post-war political reform championed by local Republicans transformed the city's racial geography, creating a racialized "city within a city," featuring a system of "managerial racism" designed to keep blacks in declining inner-city areas. As Robinson indicates, this bold, provocative framework for understanding race relations in Grand Rapids has broader implications for illuminating the twentieth-century African American urban experience in secondary cities.

Here I Stand

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Author : Sonya Bernard-Hollins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008

Here I Stand written by Sonya Bernard-Hollins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with African American musicians categories.

Remaking Respectability

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Author : Victoria W. Wolcott
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013-01-01

Remaking Respectability written by Victoria W. Wolcott and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Social Science categories.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have been the male industrial workers who labored on the city's automobile assembly lines. African American women have largely been absent from traditional narratives of the Great Migration because they were excluded from industrial work. By placing these women at the center of her study, Victoria Wolcott reveals their vital role in shaping life in interwar Detroit. Wolcott takes us into the speakeasies, settlement houses, blues clubs, storefront churches, employment bureaus, and training centers of Prohibition- and depression-era Detroit. There, she explores the wide range of black women's experiences, focusing particularly on the interactions between working- and middle-class women. As Detroit's black population grew exponentially, women not only served as models of bourgeois respectability, but also began to reshape traditional standards of deportment in response to the new realities of their lives. In so doing, Wolcott says, they helped transform black politics and culture. Eventually, as the depression arrived, female respectability as a central symbol of reform was supplanted by a more strident working-class activism.

Idlewild

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Author : Ronald Jemal Stephens
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2001

Idlewild written by Ronald Jemal Stephens and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.

Once considered the most famous African-American resort community in the country, Idlewild was referred to as the Black Eden of Michigan in the 1920s and '30s, and as the Summer Apollo of Michigan in the 1950s and '60s. Showcasing classy revues and interactive performances of some of the leading black entertainers of the period, Idlewild was an oasis in the shadows of legal segregation. Idlewild: Black Eden of Michigan focuses on this illustrative history, as well as the decline and the community's contemporary renaissance, in over 200 rare photographs. The lively legacy of Lela G. and Herman O. Wilson, and Paradise Path is included, featuring images of the Paradise Club and Wilson's Grocery. Idlewild continued its role as a distinctive American resort throughout the 1950s, with photographs ranging from Phil Giles' Flamingo Club and Arthur Braggs's Idlewild Revue.