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The road to liberation for the negro people; an appeal by A.W. Berry and others
Title
The road to liberation for the negro people; an appeal by A.W. Berry and others.
Date Issued
1937
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/2782462
Subject Headings
African Americans --Civil rights.
Format
Document (PDF)
A petition to the United Nations on behalf of 13 million oppressed Negro citizens of the United States of America
Title
A petition to the United Nations on behalf of 13 million oppressed Negro citizens of the United States of America.
Creator
Yergan, Max
Date Issued
1946
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/368643
Subject Headings
African Americans --Civil rights.
Format
Document (PDF)
Communists in the struggle for Negro rights
Title
Communists in the struggle for Negro rights.
Creator
Ford, James W., Davis, Benjamin J., Jr., Patterson, William L., Browder, Earl
Date Issued
1945
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/260083
Subject Headings
African Americans --Civil rights., Communism --United States.
Format
Document (PDF)
modern civil rights movement in Riviera Beach, 1954-1971
Title
The modern civil rights movement in Riviera Beach, 1954-1971.
Creator
Penders, Pia Maarit., Florida Atlantic University, Goings, Kenneth W.
Abstract/Description
This paper challenges the belief that state of Florida was different from other southern states in terms of race relations during the modern civil rights movement. As an evidence, the study examines the racial changes that took place in Riviera Beach, Florida, in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the 1944 Supreme Court decision, Smith vs. Allwright, it took almost two decades for the African-American community in Riviera Beach to elect its first African-American representative in the city...
Show moreThis paper challenges the belief that state of Florida was different from other southern states in terms of race relations during the modern civil rights movement. As an evidence, the study examines the racial changes that took place in Riviera Beach, Florida, in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the 1944 Supreme Court decision, Smith vs. Allwright, it took almost two decades for the African-American community in Riviera Beach to elect its first African-American representative in the city government. Furthermore, not until African-Americans had achieved a majority in the city council in 1971, were there any significant changes in city services and employment for African-Americans. African-Americans were able to end discrimination in public accommodations only after demonstrations, sit-ins, and lawsuits. Again, despite the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, it took almost two decades to desegregate public schools in Riviera Beach and Palm Beach County.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15067
Subject Headings
African Americans--Florida--Riviera Beach, Civil rights movements--Florida--Riviera Beach, African Americans--Civil rights--Florida
Format
Document (PDF)
end of race as we know it: Slavery, segregation, and the African American quest for redress
Title
The end of race as we know it: Slavery, segregation, and the African American quest for redress.
Creator
Dottin, Paul Anthony., Florida Atlantic University, Lyman, Stanford M.
Abstract/Description
This is a study of one of the most controversial public matters concerning race in America today: the African American reparations movement for slavery and segregation. This issue is hotly contested because racial identity and the relative status and well-being of ethnic groups in America, a configuration I refer to as "race as we know it," is inextricably linked to matters of prejudice, pride, property, and public policy both presently and historically. Any substantial shift in the relative...
Show moreThis is a study of one of the most controversial public matters concerning race in America today: the African American reparations movement for slavery and segregation. This issue is hotly contested because racial identity and the relative status and well-being of ethnic groups in America, a configuration I refer to as "race as we know it," is inextricably linked to matters of prejudice, pride, property, and public policy both presently and historically. Any substantial shift in the relative position of blacks and whites, America's most iconically opposed groups, promises to alter fundamental dynamics between these two populations, effectively ending "race as we know it," if not racism and racial hierarchy per se. Randall Robinson, author of The Debt, the most important work advocating reparations for African Americans, sees reparations as the means by which to break the historical "habit" of American society of locking most blacks and whites into positions of inferiority and superiority respectively. David Horowitz, author of Uncivil Wars , the most famous refutation of Robinson's argument, sees reparations as an all-out attack on America's "heritage" of racial progress because it threatens today's allegedly "color-blind consensus" with "reverse-racism." So put, these opposed positions express the fundamental fears of many whites and the highest hopes of many blacks. Hence, the conflict over reparations, a struggle over the economics and ethics of equality, is simultaneously and inseparably no less a struggle over the future of race in America. With the societal stake so high, the present study constitutes a much-needed critical scholarly attempt to "save" this public matter from the ideological excesses of these powerfully opposed manifestos. This study will analyze their respective arguments by using a multidisciplinary and comparative framework employing data, concepts, and theories from the disciplines of anthropology, economics, cultural studies, history, political science, and sociology. Its comparative orientation juxtaposes different forms of human bondage, class composition, racial identity and community formation, and political movements. A critical analysis of primary and secondary sources using qualitative and quantitative methods will also be employed.
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Date Issued
2002
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT12013
Subject Headings
African Americans--Reparations, African Americans--Civil rights, Racism--United States, United States--Race relations
Format
Document (PDF)
African American protest in Jacksonville, Florida, 1895-1920
Title
African American protest in Jacksonville, Florida, 1895-1920.
Creator
Cassanello, Robert., Florida Atlantic University, Goings, Kenneth W.
Abstract/Description
American historians have traditionally seen the period from 1915 to 1920 as one of heightened interracial tensions. Several historians have cited the emergence of the "New Negro" or the communist scare as the main reason for the heightened tensions. While those reasons may have contributed somewhat to the tension, the real source of the tension lies elsewhere. My study of Jacksonville has provided different reasons for the tension. Tension increased because of working-class African American...
Show moreAmerican historians have traditionally seen the period from 1915 to 1920 as one of heightened interracial tensions. Several historians have cited the emergence of the "New Negro" or the communist scare as the main reason for the heightened tensions. While those reasons may have contributed somewhat to the tension, the real source of the tension lies elsewhere. My study of Jacksonville has provided different reasons for the tension. Tension increased because of working-class African American resistance in Jacksonville, the impact of the Great Migration on Jacksonville, and the change in white attitudes concerning race.
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Date Issued
1995
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15170
Subject Headings
Jacksonville (Fla.)--Race relations, African Americans--Florida--Jacksonville, Civil rights movements--Florida--Jacksonville
Format
Document (PDF)
The colored men for the 20th century : sermon
Title
The colored men for the 20th century : sermon.
Creator
Walker, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1858-1921, John P. Wharton
Abstract/Description
The colored men for the 20th century : sermon by Rev. C. T. Walker.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb24f18
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights, Sermons, American -- African American authors, African Americans -- Religion, African Americans -- United States -- History, United States -- Civilization -- African American influences, Slavery -- United States -- History, Freedmen -- United States -- Social conditions, United States -- Race relations -- History, Baptists, Bible Samuel, 2nd, X, 12
Format
E-book
grassroots gospel
Title
The grassroots gospel: how spirituals and freedom songs democratized the Civil Rights Movement.
Creator
Bimmler, Lauren., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The presence of music, especially in the form of freedom songs, is a notable constant in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Participants sang spirituals and freedom songs everywhere in the South - at mass meetings, demonstrations, and in jails. An engaging and participatory activity, singing unified, empowered, and historicized activists, allowing everyone an opportunity to be included in the action. Without these songs, the African-American communities across the...
Show moreThe presence of music, especially in the form of freedom songs, is a notable constant in the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Participants sang spirituals and freedom songs everywhere in the South - at mass meetings, demonstrations, and in jails. An engaging and participatory activity, singing unified, empowered, and historicized activists, allowing everyone an opportunity to be included in the action. Without these songs, the African-American communities across the South may not have been able to band together to become such a force for change; while the activists were the facilitators for progress, the songs were the inspiration. Freedom songs democratized the Civil Rights Movement, enabling the participation of ordinary people at a grassroots level, therefore creating a strong mass movement.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77657, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77657
Subject Headings
Civil rights movements, History, Protest songs, History and criticism, African Americans, Civil rights, History and criticism, Spirituals (Songs), History and criticism
Format
Document (PDF)
Address of Hon. Charles D. Drake, to the Radical Union men of Missouri
Title
Address of Hon. Charles D. Drake, to the Radical Union men of Missouri.
Creator
Drake, Charles D. (Charles Daniel) 1811-1892
Abstract/Description
Address of Honorable Charles D. Drake, to the Radical Union men of Missouri Notes: Caption title. Printer’s name at foot page 4. "April 20, 1868"--Page 4.Two columns to the page.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f17
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Missouri, African Americans -- Suffrage -- Missouri, Copperhead movement, Freedmen -- Civil rights -- Missouri, Freedmen -- Suffrage -- Missouri, Missouri -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950, Postwar reconstruction -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Radical Union Party (Mo.), Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Slavery -- United States
Format
E-book
Address of Hon. Geo. F. Hoar : at the organization of the Grant and Wilson Club of Worcester, in Mechanics Hall, August 13, 1872.
Title
Address of Hon. Geo. F. Hoar : at the organization of the Grant and Wilson Club of Worcester, in Mechanics Hall, August 13, 1872.
Creator
Hoar, George Frisbie 1826-1904, Grant and Wilson Club of Worcester
Abstract/Description
Address of Honorable George F. Hoar. Notes: Caption title. "Published by the club." "Printed at the Worcester Evening Gazette Office, 392 Main St., Worcester, Mass."--Page [16]. "Officers of the Grant and Wilson Club of Worcester, Mass."--Page [16]. Text printed in two columns. FAU Libraries' copy side stitched with cord. Supporting Ulysses S. Grant for president and Henry Wilson for vice president in the election of 1872.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f29
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights, African Americans -- Suffrage, Campaign literature -- 1872 -- Republican, Elections -- United States -- 1872, Freedmen -- Civil rights -- United States, Grant, Ulysses S. -- (Ulysses Simpson) -- 1822-1885, Greeley, Horace -- 1811-1872, Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1872, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Wilson, Henry -- 1812-1875
Format
E-book
Valedictory address of His Excellency John A. Andrew, to the two branches of the legislature of Massachusetts, January 4, 1866
Title
Valedictory address of His Excellency John A. Andrew, to the two branches of the legislature of Massachusetts, January 4, 1866.
Creator
Massachusetts Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew), Massachusetts General Court Senate
Abstract/Description
Series: Senate (Series) (Massachusetts. General Court. Senate) ; 1866, no. 2. Notes: FAU Libraries' copy has original orange wrappers; side stitched with cord. The Governor addresses questions of universal amnesty and franchise for black and white Southerners, including former slaves and those who fought for the Confederate States of America, evoking the spirit of Abraham Lincoln throughout.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb22f38
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights, African Americans -- Politics and government, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American, Legislative addresses -- Massachusetts -- 19th century, Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865, Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877), United States -- Army -- African American troops, United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1869
Format
E-book
Birth-day of Washington : celebration at Paris, February 22, 1866
Title
Birth-day of Washington : celebration at Paris, February 22, 1866.
Creator
Putnam, James O. (James Osborne) 1818-1903
Abstract/Description
Birthday of Washington oration. Notes: Cover title. FAU Libraries' copy has inscription on page [1]: Mrs. M. Fillmore with compliments of James O. Putnam. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed decorated wrappers, side stitched with cord.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f7
Subject Headings
Washington's Birthday addresses, American Civil War (1861-1865), Washington, George -- 1732-1799 -- Anniversaries, etc, African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, Americans -- France, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Format
E-book
President Hayes's southern policy. : an address delivered in the town hall, Hiram, Ohio, Tuesday evening, September 25, 1877.
Title
President Hayes's southern policy. : an address delivered in the town hall, Hiram, Ohio, Tuesday evening, September 25, 1877.
Creator
Hinsdale, B. A. (Burke Aaron) 1837-1900, Hiram College
Abstract/Description
Cover title. Includes bibliographical references. FAU Libraries' copy imperfect: loose pages, all edges trimmed.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f42
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights, African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877 -- Sources, African Americans -- Suffrage, Freedmen -- Southern States, Hayes, Rutherford B. -- 1822-1893, Hinsdale, B. A. -- (Burke Aaron) -- 1837-1900, Postwar reconstruction -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Race discrimination -- United States -- History, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History -- 19th century, Slavery -- Southern States
Format
E-book
black struggle for political and Civil Rights in Broward County, 1943-1989
Title
The black struggle for political and Civil Rights in Broward County, 1943-1989.
Creator
Kelleher, Richard V., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A.
Abstract/Description
During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Broward County blacks established their place in the ranks of freedom fighters. The Supreme Court decision of 1944 in the case of Smith v. Allright opened the door for the black community to become involved in the political process. Jim Crow laws were eliminated throughout the south. Other covert barriers are now being overcome. At-large elections that prevent black representation are being overturned. Annexation of black neighborhoods has still...
Show moreDuring the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, Broward County blacks established their place in the ranks of freedom fighters. The Supreme Court decision of 1944 in the case of Smith v. Allright opened the door for the black community to become involved in the political process. Jim Crow laws were eliminated throughout the south. Other covert barriers are now being overcome. At-large elections that prevent black representation are being overturned. Annexation of black neighborhoods has still not been accomplished to any great extent. As a result, thousands of Broward's black residents have no voice in municipal government. Qualified black residents are not registering to vote in numbers that reflect their population. Despite fair housing legislation, discrimination in housing is rampant. Police departments have yet to meet agreed quotas of black officers under federal consent decrees. Overt racism is not an acceptable attitude today, but covert racism is alive and well.
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Date Issued
1990
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14610
Subject Headings
African Americans--Civil rights--Florida--Broward County--History--20th century, Political rights--Florida--Broward County--History--20th century, Civil rights--Florida--Broward County--History--20th century, Broward County (Fla)--Race relations
Format
Document (PDF)
The national security and the national faith; guarantees for the national freedman and the national creditor.
Title
The national security and the national faith; guarantees for the national freedman and the national creditor.
Creator
Sumner, Charles 1811-1874, Ticknor and Fields
Abstract/Description
Speech of Honorable Charles Sumner at the Republican state convention, in Worcester. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb22f12
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights, American Civil War (1861-1865), Equality before the law -- United States, Freedmen -- United States, Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950, Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- Sources, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Republican Party (Mass.) -- State Convention -- (1865 : -- Worcester, Mass.), Slavery -- United States, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects
Format
E-book
All power to the people
Title
All power to the people: the Black Panther Party as the vanguard of the oppressed.
Creator
Berman, Matthew., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
Abstract/Description
The Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers...
Show moreThe Black Panther Party was the most famous group born out of the Black Power Movement. Because of the group's inherent link to the Black Power Movement, and the group's slogan of "Black Power," many people, both black and white, believed, and continue to believe, that the Black Panther Party was a group with racial motives. However, this conceptualization of the Party was, and is, incorrect. While the Black Panther Party began as an outgrowth of the black civil rights movement, the Panthers quickly evolved into a revolutionary vanguard with a non-racial, class-oriented agenda.
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/77656, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT77656
Subject Headings
African Americans, Politics and government, Civil rights movements, History, Black nationalism, History
Format
Document (PDF)
The true office of civil government : a speech
Title
The true office of civil government : a speech.
Creator
Smith, Gerrit 1797-1874, Benedict, Seth Williston 1803-1869
Abstract/Description
Cover title: Gerrit Smith on civil government. Notes: FAU Libraries' copy in original paper wrappers; side stitched with brown cord.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb15f28
Subject Headings
African Americans -- History -- To 1863, Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Abolitionists -- United States, African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century, New York (State) -- Troy, United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century, Slave trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Slavery and the church, Slavery in the Bible
Format
E-book
Lessons from the elections for the victors and the vanquished : a discourse delivered before the First Congregational Church, New Bedford, November 9th, 1874
Title
Lessons from the elections for the victors and the vanquished : a discourse delivered before the First Congregational Church, New Bedford, November 9th, 1874.
Creator
Potter, William J. (William James) 1829? 1893, Fessenden & Baker
Abstract/Description
"Erratum"--Page 19. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed decorative wrappers, side stitched with cord.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f35
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights, Campaign literature -- 1874, Election sermons -- United States, Elections -- United States, Political parties -- United States -- History, Postwar reconstruction -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Speeches, addresses, etc., American -- 19th century, United States -- Congress, United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877
Format
E-book
Union League Club of New York. : Address of the president, June 23, 1866
Title
Union League Club of New York. : Address of the president, June 23, 1866.
Creator
Jay, John 1817-1894, Union League Club (New York, N.Y.)
Abstract/Description
Address of the president. Notes: Half-title. Signed and dated: John Jay. Hotel Westminster, Paris. June 23, 1866. Another edition has colophon: Paris : Printed by E. Brière. So listed by Sabin, who does not record this printing. Collation: [1]⁸ 2-4⁸ 5² [$1 signed]; 34 leaves, pp. [1-3] 4-66 [67-68 (blank)]. Issued in salmon-colored printed wrapper.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb23f5
Subject Headings
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 19th century, African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 19th century, Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Freedmen -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century, Union League Club (New York, N.Y.), Postwar reconstruction -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877), Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Sources
Format
E-book