African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology

Author:   Bruce A. Glasrud ,  Charles A. Braithwaite ,  Bruce A. Glasrud ,  Charles A. Braithwaite
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
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9780803226678


Pages:   404
Publication Date:   01 October 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Bruce A. Glasrud ,  Charles A. Braithwaite ,  Bruce A. Glasrud ,  Charles A. Braithwaite
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780803226678


ISBN 10:   0803226675
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   01 October 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: African Americans on the Great Plains (Bruce A. Glasrud and Charles A. Braithwaite)   Articles: Black Soldiers at Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867-1869: A Study in Civilian and Military Violence (James N. Leiker) “Pap” Singleton’s Dunlap Colony Relief Agencies and the Failure of a Black Settlement in Eastern Kansas (Joseph V. Hickey) Vengeance without Justice, Injustice without Retribution: The Afro-American Council’s Struggle against Racial Violence (Shawn Leigh Alexander) Prelude to Brownsville: The Twenty-fifth Infantry at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, 1902-06 (Thomas R. Buecker) Black Enclaves of Violence: Race and Homicide in Great Plains Cities, 1890-1920 (Clare V. McKanna, Jr.) A Socioeconomic Portrait of Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska, 1900-1920 (Dennis N. Mihelich) Diplomatic Racism: Canadian Government and Black Migration from Oklahoma, 1905-1912 (R. Bruce Shepard) “This Strange White World”: Race and Place in Era Bell Thompson's American Daughter (Michael K. Johnson) The New Negro Arts and Letters Movement Among Black University Students in the Midwest, 1914-1940 (Richard M. Breaux) Great Plains Pragmatist: Aaron Douglas and the Art of Social Protest (Audrey Thompson) Frompin’ in the Great Plains: Listening and Dancing to the Jazz Orchestras of Alphonso Trent, 1925-44 (Marc Rice) Early Civil Rights Activism in Topeka, Kansas, Prior to the 1954 Brown Case (Jean Van Delinder) The Great Plains Sit-In Movement, 1958-1960 (Ronald Walters) The Omaha Gospel Complex in Historical Perspective (Tom Jack)   Bibliography: African Americans on the Great Plains: Selected Bibliography (Bruce A. Glasrud)

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For those of us who continue to study the African American experience in the heartland, especially the northern heartland, this anthology is an important addition to the literature and, one may hope, the first of many. --Betti C./i>--Betti C. Vanepps-Taylor South Dakota History


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Bruce A. Glasrud is a professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay, and a retired dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University. He is the editor of numerous works, including (with Merline Pitre) Black Women in Texas History. Charles A. Braithwaite is the editor of Great Plains Quarterly, and a University of Nebraska–Lincoln graduate fellow in the Department of Communication Studies and director of the Global Classroom Project. Contributors: Shawn Leigh Alexander, Richard M. Breaux, Thomas R. Buecker, Bruce A. Glasrud, Joseph V. Hickey, Tom Jack, Michael K. Johnson, James N. Leiker, Clare V. McKanna Jr., Dennis N. Mihelich, Marc Rice, R. Bruce Shepard, Audrey Thompson, Jean Van Delinder, and Ronald Walters.

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