Guided by common ideals, diverse groups of people and organizations contributed to the success of the modern civil rights movement. African Americans' desire for social, economic, and political equality spawned a massive freedom campaign in the American South. Grassroots activis…
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This study presents an examination of what has been commonly referred to as Cheikh Anta Diop's Two Cradle Theory. After a review of Cheikh Anta Diop's English-translated works which elucidate the Two Cradle Theory and a discussion of the Afrikan worldview methodological framewor…
This dissertation explores the forces that gave birth to the Civil Rights Movement in Hancock County, Georgia, and how local history, knowledge, practices, and ideas drove the ways the movement developed. It examines the leadership of John L. McCown and the rise and collapse of …
This study examines the development of Christianity among African Americans, in antebellum Missouri. It argues that the proslavery church, northern Evangelicals, and the traditional beliefs of enslaved blacks contributed to the growth of Christianity among them. It also maintain…
The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate how women in the NOI represent a continuum of African American females in action to change life conditions for urban African Americans in Newark, New Jersey during the decade of the sixties. The study investigates how the role a…
This dissertation analyzes the impact of the Ahmadiya movement and Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association on Afro-American religious consciousness in the 1920's. There were two strands in the development of Islam in the United States in that decade. The first st…
According to most experts Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States. The United States Army has appointed Islamic chaplains, and Congressional prayers have been led by an Imam. Some have estimated that in the early part of the next century Islam will be the seco…
This study intends to examine the efforts of the Nation of Islam, via its founder the "Messenger," Elijah Muhammad, in syncretizing Islamic tenets with black nationalist thought to further the religio-political agenda of the organization. Strongly influenced by Marcus Garvey's "…
This dissertation on the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther Party studies the many ways in which African Americans responded to black nationalism during a twenty-year period of incredible social and political transformation. The beginning of what many consider the modern Civi…
This investigation used a constructivist paradigm and a grounded theory framework to determine the role of religion in the food decisions of 22 African-American Muslim women. Multiple qualitative methods (in-depth interviews, participant observations, and a focus group) were emp…
This thesis examines the first known indigenous African-American Muslim movement, the Moorish Science Temple of America, and its prophet, Noble Drew Ali, as reflections and shapers of black perceptions of Islam in 1920s Chicago. Independent of proselytization by Muslims, Ali pre…
Since the arrival of the first slaves from the Nigerian coast in 1517, many Caribbean peoples, blending elements of the traditional, pantheistic beliefs and rituals of Ifa with Roman Catholicism, adopted the syncretic religion of Santeria. During the ensuing centuries, as the Yo…
This dissertation seeks to provide an intraracial narrative history of African American politics and class tensions in Atlanta, Georgia from 1966, the year when black power movement forces emerged and helped to elect Maynard H. Jackson as Atlanta's mayor to the 1996 Centennial O…
This dissertation asserts that institutions indigenous to the African diaspora facilitate transnational exchanges between black social movements by encouraging organizations and activists to identify with each other across national boundaries. Using the research methods of conte…
By the 1960s, France was no longer a colonial power. It lost its holding in Indochina in 1954 and fought a protracted and futile war in Algeria, which ended in 1962 with Algerian independence. After a long process of negotiation, the colonies of French West Africa (AOF) and Fren…
The thesis is divided into seven chapters, covering the history, research, and results on the controlling images of the black boxer. Chapter Two begins with a brief assessment on the role of race in sports. It also explains the concept of controlling images and the theories of S…
In this dissertation, based on German-language primary documents found in the German and Tanzanian National Archives, I examine the spatial strategies of resistance in the colony German East Africa. I argue that German policies on transportation, labor, Islamic practice, and edu…
This dissertation asks what the history of African American beaches and resorts can teach us about the politics of leisure in the Jim Crow South (ca. 1890-1965). Through five case studies, this project examines the creative measures black Southerners adopted to secure and defend…