This dissertation argues for the central place of theaters and places of amusement in the story of the African American fight for citizenship in the northern United States from 1865 to 1915. The 1875 Civil Rights Act explicitly mentions “theaters” as public accommodations that c…
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Despite advances in tuberculosis treatment and prevention by the twentieth century, African Americans in Texas died from the disease at a rate three times that of whites. That trend continues today. This dissertation is the first study of the effort to control tuberculosis in th…
The mass media exercise unique and important roles in society. One of these is the media's potential to influence social change. By exposing social ills, supporting campaigns for the eradication of these ills, and suggesting solutions, the media often are instrumental in effecti…
The Atlantic slave trade from West Africa dominates African historiography; however, there are lacunas in the scholarship concerning the earliest African slave trade to Europe and its colonies. This study reconstructs the maritime trade in slaves and merchandise from West Africa…
This study examines the role that belief in the Black Manifest Destiny played in shaping missional leadership among African-American Christians between 1850 and 1925, the Golden Age of Black Nationalism. Further, this study seeks to identify the basic tenets of the Black Manifes…
Scholars have had many discussions on the question whether the enslaved Africans retained any of their culture when they were brought to the United States. The question for deliberation is, did they remember their common thoughts, feelings, and actions regarding themselves, thei…
The dissertation was an inquiry into political expression in African American and Nigerian art. The approach employed was comparative and interpretative in that in the examination of Nigerian and African American cultures, and the works of African American and Nigerian artists, …
The global expansion of France during the nineteenth century is one of the most significant phenomena in modern French history. It was animated by an official creed, referred to as the “mission civilisatrice ” or “mission to civilize,” that established boundaries for what the Fr…
A personal cognition of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on issues of African American intra-racial color prejudice led to an examination of the pervasiveness of anti-Black racial prejudice throughout the Diaspora. I was fortunate to be able to study vestiges of the Afric…
African Americans are the descendants of dispersed Africans who were enslaved in the British colonies and United States. Although the enslaved peoples were legally freed in the 1860s, subsequent generations continued to face racism and social alienation a century later. The desc…
This dissertation is a history of the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen (FSC). The FSC was an interracial, interdenominational organization of male and female laity and clergy who labored in the South during the middle decades of this century. Members of the FSC actively dedicate…
This study is about the history of the people identified as the Bamana. There are three major focal points of this study which are important to the historiography of West Africa and of political hegemony. First, this history is approached from the Bamana point of view. In additi…
Depuis sa légitimation au XIII siècle par Le Serment du Mandingue* jusqu'à nos jours, bien qu'on ait tenté à diverses reprises de le définir, le griot reste un personnage insaisissable. La parole étant son instrument exclusif de travail, il occupe une position stratégique au cœu…
In 1846 Virginia courts freed 383 slaves of Roanoke plantation by ruling which will of John Randolph of Roanoke's was valid. Sent to found a free black colony in Mercer County, Ohio, these "Randolph Slaves" were refused entry by a mob of Mercer County whites. The freed people in…
In 1965, black protest began to shift rapidly from a nonviolent movement based on integration and civil rights to one which emphasized the use of self-defense violence, separatism, and black power. The Black Power phase of the movement signified blacks' attempt to establish an i…
My study begins by outlining the historical significance of medieval studies in African-American colleges and scholarly writing in the decades after the Civil War. Scholars have studied this period with respect to the myth of racial purity that pervaded white racial discourse at…
American historiography no longer discusses the over eighteen thousand African-American sailors of the Union Navy as property, percentages, or political conundrums, as previous scholarship had. Advancements in social history made by historians David Valuska and Joseph Reidy in t…
While the intersection of sport and the Civil Rights era has been well documented from a number of angles and approaches, perhaps no athlete has been so thoroughly connected to this period in history as Muhammad Ali. His stances on Vietnam, race relations and religion during thi…
Pulling Down the House and Tearing Up the Yard: Constructing, Policing and Containing Black Masculinity, 1920-1960 explores the role of the black press, black lifestyle magazines, and selected journalists and publishers in the discursive construction of black middle-class mascul…