{"product_id":"african-americans-on-the-great-plains-9780803226678","title":"African Americans on the Great Plains","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eAnnals of Iowa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican Americans on the Great Plains (Bruce A. Glasrud and Charles A. Braithwaite)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArticles:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Soldiers at Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867-1869: A Study in Civilian and Military Violence (James N. Leiker)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pap” Singleton’s Dunlap Colony Relief Agencies and the Failure of a Black Settlement in Eastern Kansas (Joseph V. Hickey)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVengeance without Justice, Injustice without Retribution: The Afro-American Council’s Struggle against Racial Violence (Shawn Leigh Alexander)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude to Brownsville: The Twenty-fifth Infantry at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, 1902-06 (Thomas R. Buecker)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack Enclaves of Violence: Race and Homicide in Great Plains Cities, 1890-1920 (Clare V. McKanna, Jr.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Socioeconomic Portrait of Prince Hall Masonry in Nebraska, 1900-1920 (Dennis N. Mihelich)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiplomatic Racism: Canadian Government and Black Migration from Oklahoma, 1905-1912 (R. Bruce Shepard)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This Strange White World”: Race and Place in Era Bell Thompson's American Daughter (Michael K. Johnson)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe New Negro Arts and Letters Movement Among Black University Students in the Midwest, 1914-1940 (Richard M. Breaux)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat Plains Pragmatist: Aaron Douglas and the Art of Social Protest (Audrey Thompson)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrompin’ in the Great Plains: Listening and Dancing to the Jazz Orchestras of Alphonso Trent, 1925-44 (Marc Rice)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly Civil Rights Activism in Topeka, Kansas, Prior to the 1954 Brown Case (Jean Van Delinder)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Plains Sit-In Movement, 1958-1960 (Ronald Walters)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Omaha Gospel Complex in Historical Perspective (Tom Jack)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican Americans on the Great Plains: Selected Bibliography (Bruce A. Glasrud) \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405246636375,"sku":"9780803226678","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803226678.jpg?v=1730489267","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/african-americans-on-the-great-plains-9780803226678","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}