Recently added articles from Afro - Americans in New York Life and History:
Introduction to the Niagara Movement Special Issue
Jul 01, 2008; Armfield, Felix ... 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; Wolf, Kyle D ... "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; Elliott, Mark ... 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; Jones, Ida ... 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; Nahal, Anita; Matthews, Lopez D Jr ... 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; Walter, John C ... 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; Marotta, Gary ... 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 ...