Way Down in Egypt Land: Conflict and Community in Cairo, Illinois, 1850-1930 is a multidimensional study that focuses upon the lives of men and women residing in a border South community during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. One important goal of this study is to ex…
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The life of Dr. Annie Mae McClary Walker is a microcosm of Black History in the United States. The only half Native American-half African American anthropologist in the world, Dr. Walker provides rare insight into the racist culture of her childhood on the Seminole reservation a…
Previous scholarship has mostly left the story of recolonization of former slaves and Free People of Color to West Africa in the dustbin of history. These studies also have artificially separated the multiple failed attempts into the story of either Sierra Leone or Liberia. This…
Across the American South, civil rights memory institutions created by city and state governments and private organizations, preserve and communicate complex civil rights histories. Each of these institutions, for different reasons, influenced by their particular cultural, histo…
Between 1964 and 1968, protests against anti-Black racism and police violence transformed cities across the United States. Against the backdrop of the civil rights movement and the emergent Black Power movement, these so-called “race riots” elicited a diverse groundswell of poli…
This work examines the apartheid health care system in New Orleans from the city's founding in 1718 through the present, addressing several research questions. What factors led to the development and perpetuation of the apartheid health care system in New Orleans? What are the c…
This thesis will address slavery in Nebraska Territory through the lens of the 1858 escape of two young women—Celia and Eliza Grayson—enslaved by Virginia native Stephen Friel Nuckolls, Nebraska City’s founder. Historians have described Nebraska Territory as a place where popula…
In 2016, Colin Kaepernick, the former starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, unknowingly bartered his athletic aspirations by exercising his First Amendment Right to freedom of expression. Frustrated with what he and many others perceived as pervasive extrajudicial ta…
The town of Washington Grove is uniquely placed in the middle of the suburban development of Montgomery County, Maryland. The Washington Grove Camp Meeting Association (WGCMA) was originally founded in 1873 and was dedicated to creating a “safe” environment for the people of Was…
The 1966 Seattle school boycott and freedom schools represent a case of successful activism that did not translate into successful long-term policy. Instead, the value of the boycott lies in the role it played as a catalyst in Seattle’s decades-long series of desegregation attem…
While numerous historians have studied and written about the lives and deeds of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis, fewer have conducted analyses of these three individuals’ popular memories. This study considers how the memory of these three Confederate leade…
From the era of slavery to mass immigration in the 21st century in America, this thesis will encompass how white nationalism has been an ever-present and growing threat to national security within America. The historical, systemic oppression and discrimination towards people of …
This work explores the interrelationship between world affairs and the American civil rights movement in the twentieth century. It examines how civil rights leaders viewed international developments and incorporated their understanding of oversees affairs into their reform messa…
This dissertation explores black nationalist politics and ideology in the United States between 1957 and 1974. About "modern black nationalism" I make two claims: First, in contrast to the reigning literature on the subject, I show that there is no "essential" black nationalist …
In 1974, Joseph A. Walker received the Antoinette Perry Award for Best Play for The River Niger; a play that addressed the dilemma and conflicts of a nuclear Black family. His work posed themes and arguments which had not previously been sufficiently aired or documented. Walker …
This thesis traces the rise of the politics of the African diaspora in the late 1930s and early 1940s and the eclipse of this politics in the early cold war. I examine the intellectual and institutional links that developed among Africans and people of African descent in the dia…
Set in the founding era of the Republic, this novel examines the effects of Negro slavery on blacks and whites from all strata of society living in both the Chesapeake region of the United States and the slave trading region of West Africa from the Bight of Benin to the mouth of…
In the years following their independence, a majority of African countries, (if not all) have had their governments ruled continuously by the military. And by the existence of such a military based government, otherwise considered to be a totalitarian regime, prompting an unprec…
In Egypt Land: Race and the Cultural Politics of American Egyptomania, 1800-1900, I argue that the political, scientific, and social interest in ancient Egypt for Americans in the nineteenth century was directly related to the tensions, concerns, and anxieties over the instituti…