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- 1From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 94, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJust days after the horrific assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on 4 April 1968, I and two other African American students at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana (there were only four...
- 2From:Afro-Americans in New York Life and History (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION On Tuesday, July 15, 1941, New York City detectives supervised the recovery of a male body from the Hudson River near 72nd Street. After contacting the Missing Persons Bureau, it was determined that this...
- 3From:High School Journal (Vol. 84, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Throughout a long and distinguished career, Carter Woodson made pioneering contributions to the study of African American history and the education of black students (Wesley, 1951). In addition to a...
- 4From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 94, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLike so many of us. Professor John Hope Franklin had been a fixture in my life ever since I first discovered his magnificent From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans in high school, and read it in earnest...
- 5From:The Journal of Negro History (Vol. 86, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBenjamin Arthur Quarles, Ph.D. 1904-1996 A Personal Memorial Tribute Dr. Benjamin Quarles, who died on November 16, 1996, was a historian for all seasons and all people. As a master teacher, he was popular but...
- 6From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 92, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHistorical interpretations, like history itself, change from one era to another. The writing of history can serve a number of social, political, cultural, and even economic purposes for ethnic groups, nations,...
- 7From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 19, Issue 8)NEW YORK Historian John Hope Franklin was awarded the Gold Medal in History by the American Academy of Arts and Letters last month for his long and distinguished career as a scholar, intellectual leader and civil...
- 8From:The Journal of Negro History (Vol. 85, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSeptember 22, 1997, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin. Now in its seventh edition and co-authored by Alfred Moss, this...
- 9From:The Journal of Negro History (Vol. 85, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedDarlene Clark Hine [*] "Every generation has the opportunity to write its own history, and indeed it is obliged to do so. Only in that way can it provide its contemporaries with the materials vital to understanding...
- 10From:Black History Bulletin (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMulticultural education is a reform movement designed to provide a framework for infusion of the various contributions of the diverse ethnic groups comprising American society. American history is a people's history,...
- 11From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 94, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION In 2007 we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the first edition of From Slavery to Freedom (FSTF), John Hope Franklin's groundbreaking synthesis that introduced African Americans' narrative history to...
- 12From:Afro-Americans in New York Life and History (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis reflective essay explores moments in the life of William E. West Sr., my father, drawing on reminiscences from my youth as well as unpublished writings that he prepared for art exhibits and presentations on his...
- 13From:Negro History Bulletin (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedQuarles is honored as one of the pioneers in the study of African American history. He has devoted his life to teaching and writing at historically Black universities and colleges and outreaching as a mentor to his...
- 14From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 94, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen Dr. John Hope Franklin died on 25 March 2009, the historical profession lost a true pioneer, a "historian's historian," and one of the most important scholars of the 20th century. For over 70 years, John Hope...
- 15From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHISTORIANS REMEMBER Arturo Alfonso Schomburg principally for his magnificent collection of books and documentary materials about black history and culture. In 1926 he sold the collection, originally stored and...
- 16From:The Journal of Negro History (Vol. 85, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedDebra Newman Ham [*] Leviticus 25:8-10 reads: And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years....
- 17From:The Journal of Negro History (Vol. 85, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedGood Evening. I am five years younger than the book! Therefore, I cannot imagine a time before From Slavery to Freedom. Over the years I have had the opportunity to watch as the world has responded to the book and...
- 18From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 28, Issue 26)Of all the honors and accolades bibliophile and noted authority on the Underground Railroad Charles Blockson has received, being bequeathed recently with some of Harriet Tubman's personal items by her great-niece is one...
- 19From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 35, Issue 26)Preeminent scholar Dr. Carter G. Woodson has been dubbed "the father of Black history" and is known for earning degrees at the University of Chicago and Harvard, but less well known is how living in Appalachia and...
- 20From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 22, Issue 18)FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. Black activists say the computer-generated portraits of King Tut that are scheduled to go on display at a museum exhibit in December wrongly depict the young Egyptian ruler as White. Teams of...