African Americans on the Great Plains : an anthology /
Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence--let alone importance--of African Americans in the unfolding of the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Ame...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Braithwaite, Charles A. Glasrud, Bruce A. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- 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, 1902-1906 / 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, 1925-1944 / 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.