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Book SynopsisDescribes the part African Americans played in the frontier army and as homesteaders, community builders, and activists. This title tells of the struggle for civil rights and against Jim Crow, and examines African American cultural growth and contributions as well as economic and political aspects of black life on the Great Plains.
Trade Review"For those of us who continue to study the African American experience in the heartland, especially the northern heartland, this anthology is an important addition to the literature and, one may hope, the first of many."—Betti C. Vanepps-Taylor,
South Dakota History"This collection belongs on the shelf of every reader with an interest in African American history or the history of the Great Plains and Midwest."—Michael J. Lansing,
Annals of IowaTable of ContentsIntroduction:
African Americans on the Great Plains (Bruce A. Glasrud and Charles A. Braithwaite)
Articles:
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, 1902-06 (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, 1925-44 (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)
Bibliography:
African Americans on the Great Plains: Selected Bibliography (Bruce A. Glasrud)
