The Spingarn Brothers
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The Spingarn Brothers
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Author : Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2023-02-07
The Spingarn Brothers written by Katherine Reynolds Chaddock and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States. In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New York City as brothers with very different personalities, interests, and professional goals. Joel was impetuous and high-spirited; Arthur was reasoned and studious. Yet together they would become essential leaders in the struggle for racial justice and equality, serving as presidents of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, exposing inequities, overseeing key court cases, and lobbying presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to John F. Kennedy. In The Spingarn Brothers, Katherine Reynolds Chaddock sheds new light on the story of these fascinating brothers and explores how their Jewish heritage and experience as second-generation immigrants led to their fight for racial equality. Upon graduating from Columbia University, Arthur joined a top Manhattan law practice, while Joel became a professor of comparative literature. The two soon witnessed growing racial injustices in the city and joined the NAACP in 1909, its founding year. Arthur began to aim his legal practice toward issues of discrimination, while Joel founded the NAACP's New York City branch. Drawing from personal letters, journals, and archives, Chaddock uncovers some of the motivations and influences that guided the Spingarns. Both brothers served in World War I, married, and pursued numerous interests that ranged from running for Congress to collecting rare books and manuscripts by Black authors around the world. In this dual biography, Chaddock illustrates how the Spingarn brothers' unique personalities, Jewish heritage, and family history shaped their personal and professional lives into an ongoing fight for racial justice.
The Crisis
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966-02
The Crisis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-02 with categories.
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
The Crisis
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966-02
The Crisis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966-02 with categories.
The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.
The Harlem Renaissance
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2004
The Harlem Renaissance written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with African Americans categories.
Harlem in the 1920s and '30s was the epicenter of a flourishing in African-American literature with the poetry and prose of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Claude McKay, to name a few. This volume examines the defining themes and styles of African-American literature during this period, which laid the groundwork for contemporary African-American writers.
In The Almost Promised Land
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Author : Hasia R. Diner
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1995-10
In The Almost Promised Land written by Hasia R. Diner and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African Americans, Hasis Finer shows how-in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta-Jews came to see that their relative prosperity wa sno protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. Jewish leaders and organizations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of advancing their own interests-launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own ideals of freedom and equality.
American Jewish History
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Author : Norman H. Finkelstein
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 2010-01-01
American Jewish History written by Norman H. Finkelstein and has been published by Jewish Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Religion categories.
This JPS Guide chronicles the extraordinary history of American Jewry. Finkelstein tells the dramatic 350-year story of the people and events that shaped the lives of today's American Jews. Divided into six time periods, American Jewish History describes Jewish life from the time of the early settlers, to the period of massive immigration that flooded the cities, to the incredible growth of Jews in positions of influence in business, politics, and the arts. This is a story of a people who affected not only the lives of Jews in the U.S. today, but also the course of American history itself. There are over 70 black and white photographs, maps, and charts and more than 120 feature boxes and biographies throughout, as well as timelines, notes, a bibliography, and index. Finkelstein has made the saga of American Jewry much more than a compilation of historical facts. This is wonderfully stimulating journey--a worthwhile adventure for readers of all ages.
The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book
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Author : David L Hudson
language : en
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Release Date : 2007-10-01
The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book written by David L Hudson and has been published by Visible Ink Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-01 with Law categories.
From the origins of the court to practical matters—the federal judiciary system, the Supreme Court’s session schedule, how cases reach the court, and the argument, decision and appeal process—this book covers it all! Making our nation’s least-understood branch of government accessible to all, The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book informs and entertains, providing a veritable docket of interesting Court lore. This fascinating book explores the defining personalities that served as the Court’s chief justices, details the history, important cases, the current events of the Court, and more. It answers more than 800 absorbing questions, including … Which Supreme Court Justice killed a man in a dual? Who was the first Supreme Court Justice to attend law school? When did the Supreme Court begin its tradition of nine justices on the bench? Which Justices signed the Declaration of Independence? What happens when a justice becomes incapacitated? In what decision did the Court uphold a ten-hour work day for mill and factory workers? The Court rejected women’s rights to vote in what decision? What future U.S. President was offered a position on the U.S. Supreme Court? Which Supreme Court justice married a sixteen-year-old? When did the Supreme Court first meet? With numerous photos and illustrations, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. For a quick and useful reference to the history of the Court, the vote is unanimous for The Handy Supreme Court Answer Book!
J E Spingarn And The Rise Of The Naacp 1911 1939
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Author : Barbara Joyce Ross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
J E Spingarn And The Rise Of The Naacp 1911 1939 written by Barbara Joyce Ross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Social Science categories.
A Chance Meeting
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Author : Rachel Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
A Chance Meeting written by Rachel Cohen and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Art categories.
Each chapter in this remarkable consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. In 1854, as a boy, Henry James has his daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady. We encounter Brady again as he photographs Walt Whitman and then Ulysses Grant. Meanwhile, Henry James begins a lasting friendship with William Dean Howells, and also meets Sarah Orne Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Cather... Cohen brilliantly reanimates these unforgettable pairings and those of Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz; Carl Van Vechten and Gertrude Stein; Hart Crane and Charlie Chaplin; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston; Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore; Richard Avedon and James Baldwin; and John Cage and Marcel Duchamp; Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell. Ultimately, Cohen reveals and long chain of friendship, rebellion and influence stretching from the moment before the Civil War through a century that had a profound effect on our own time. A Chance Meeting is an intimate and original act of biography and cultural history that makes its own contribution to the tradition about which Cohen writes.
The A To Z Of The Progressive Era
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Author : Peter C. Holloran
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2009-09-24
The A To Z Of The Progressive Era written by Peter C. Holloran and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-24 with History categories.
The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great power, the country soon was involved in its first overseas guerrilla war, in the Philippines. Vast changes in communications and transportation, immigration and migration patterns, social mores, gender roles, family structure, class structure, work patterns, business methods, education, intellectual life, religion, the professions, technology, science, medicine, and much else were transforming the scope and feel of people's lives and relationships. In many ways what happened in this era set the agenda for the rest of the 20th century. The A to Z of the Progressive Era is the most comprehensive and coherent reference work on the Progressive Era. Through its chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the key events, people, organizations, and ideas of the period, this resource is a lively, complete, and accessible overview of this significant era.