Recently added articles from Afro - Americans in New York Life and History:
African American Historiography and Community History Preservation: A Position Paper
Jan 01, 2009; ... When Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915 and The Journal of Negro History the following year, those acts led to the institutionalization of the study of African American history. During the remainder of the 20th century, and into the ...
This issue of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ralph Watkins
Jan 01, 2009; ... RALPH WATKINS, 1943-2007 Ralph R. Watkins passed away on September 18, 2007. He was diagnosed with cancer in May of 200S, was treated but had a recurrence in July of 2006. He was hospitalized at the end of August 2007 for the last time. Ralph died peacefully at home surrounded by his ...
Dr E.E. Nelson: Founder of the Buffalo Cooperative Economic Society
Jan 01, 2009; ... During the several decades following the "great migration" of Afro-Americans to the northern cities, the economic and social problems confronting northern black communities became more intense. In their quest to find solutions to those problems, and improve the quality of life in their ...
Myths and Truths: The Civil Rights Movement and African Americans on the Southern Tier of Upstate New York
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Civil Rights Movement is commonly thought of as a southern movement to eradicate Jim Crow segregation, or as a "freedom Struggle" which broke down the barriers of a vicious southern racial caste system. Not until that movement reached beyond its southern confines and touched major northern ...
Napoleon v. Lemmon: Antebellum Black New Yorkers, Antislavery, and Law
Jan 01, 2009; ... In Lemmon v. the People (1860), New York's highest court declared that slaves traveling through the state with their holder were "free".1 The decision further fueled an angry national debate on slavery, constitutional principles, and state powers. Already in its eighth year, the case was on its ...
The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Green
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Early Black History Movement, Carter G. Woodson, and Lorenzo Johnston Green. By Pero Gaglo Dagbove. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xvii, 258 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03190-8. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 978-0-252-07435-6. Dagbovie's dual biography of two giants of the ...
CONTESTED GROUND: HINTERLAND SLAVERY IN COLONIAL NEW YORK
Jan 01, 2009; ... In pre-Columbian times along the mighty Hudson River, extending in a radius of a hundred miles on either side from its point of origin in the north to its estuary far to the south on the Atlantic Ocean, lay a pristine world of bucolic and serene landfall. This was a world mantled with lush ...
The Life and Times of Samuel H. Davis: An Anti Slavery Activist
Jan 01, 2009; ... In an article titled, "The Antebellum Reform Movement of Black Buffalonians," published in The Courier Express Magazine, (Buffalo, NY, Courier Express, 26 October, 1975), 26, historian Monroe Fordham states, In 1843, Buffalo (New York) hosted The National Convention of Free People of ...
"Look For Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance
Jan 01, 2009; ... Louis J. Parascandola, "Look For Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance (Wayne State UP, 2005). Writing in The Crisis in September, 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois commented on the significance of the many Caribbean immigrants comprising what he called a ...
Introduction to the Niagara Movement Special Issue
Jul 01, 2008; ... During October 5-9, 2005 the Association for the Study of African American Life and History held its annual conference in Buffalo, New York. For four and a half days the city of Buffalo played host to this premier black history organization as part of the yearlong planned celebration in ...
The Niagara Movement of 1905: A Look Back to a Century Ago
Jul 01, 2008; ... "Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."- W. E. B. Du Bois Over a century ago in February 1905, thirty-two African Americans met secretly in the Buffalo home of Mary B. Talbert to discuss the resolutions that would become the ...
The Question of Color-Blind Citizenship: Albion Tourgée, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Principles of the Niagara Movement
Jul 01, 2008; ... The colored man and those white men who believe in liberty and justice-who do not think Christ's teachings a sham-must join hands and hearts ... without both united, there is no hope of success. Albion Tourgée, 1893. We believe it is the duty of the Americans of Negro descent, as a body, ...
Coming of the Race: Kelly Miller and Two Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Niagara Movement Era
Jul 01, 2008; ... Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were academic, social, political and emotional incubators for newly emancipated and free born African Americans. Towards, this end the pedagogical formation of these institutions greatly impacted discussions of race, character and uplift ....
African American Women and the Niagara Movement, 1905-1909
Jul 01, 2008; ... In 1905, between July 11 and July 15, twenty nine African American men met in Buffalo, New York to launch a new movement, the Niagara Movement. Spearheaded by W. E. B. DuBois, the Niagara Movement lasted just four years and became the precursor to the National Association for the Advancement of ...
Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist, and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1; Or, A Tale of Two Amys
Jul 01, 2008; ... Tony Martin, Amy Ashwood Garvey: Pan-Africanist, Feminist, and Mrs. Marcus Garvey No. 1; Or, A Tale of Two Amys (Dover, Massachusetts: The Majority Press, Inc., 2007) 446 pages (including appendices, index, and bibliography) Marcus Garvey has been dead since 1940 and Amy Ashwood Garvey ...
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
Jul 01, 2008; ... David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006) 291 pp., bibliography, list of students, index, cloth, $27.50, ISBN 0-226-07640-7. In March 1965, a delegation of distinguished historians, organized by University of Chicago ...