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Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance
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Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance
These songs the oldest musical expressions of the slave experience in this country still have a lot to teach us about how we think about death and dignity.
Lillian Richter’s “Spirituals” (circa 1935-43).Credit.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division, The New York Public Library
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Ten years ago, I worked as a researcher, conducting oral-history interviews for a project with the Weeksville Heritage Center. Weeksville is an extraordinary museum in central Brooklyn dedicated to the history of the free Black community that was founded there in 1838, when a Black stevedore named James Weeks first purchased the property. This occurred eleven years after Emancipation in New York, as Black residents organiz
Forest History Society, Durham, NC
African American employees of Cady Lumber lived in a separate part of McNary, Arizona, called the “Quarters.” This photo was in the April 10, 1926, issue of “American Lumberman.”
History buffs likely have heard of “The Great Migration” of African Americans from the Jim Crow South into the Northeast and Midwest between 1916 and 1970.
But many aren’t aware that migration also included Arizona and the West.
“Phoenix is the best city in the U.S.A. . The most friendly relations exist between the Caucasians and the Colored people.”
That’s an excerpt from a 1919 promotional article published by the Phoenix Tribune, Arizona’s first African American newspaper, founded the year prior by Arthur Randolph Smith.
History buffs likely have heard of “The Great Migration” of African Americans from the Jim Crow South into the Northeast and Midwest between 1916 and 1970.But many aren’t aware that migration also included Arizona and the West.“Phoenix is the best city in the U.S.A. . The most friendly relations exist between the Caucasians and the Colored people.”
courtesy of Amistad Research Center
Rivers Frederick in Flint-Goodridge Operating Room. Rivers Frederick was born in 1874 in New Roads, Louisiana. He received his B.A. from the New Orleans
University in 1893 and went on to earn an M.D. from the University of Illinois in 1897.
Frederick served as
the Chief of Surgery at Flint-Goodridge Hospital from 1932-1950.
New this month is a virtual exhibit that shows how New Orleans has benefited from Black leadership and engagement since the 19th century. Hancock Whitney and the Amistad Research Center at Tulane have partnered to present this curated collection, entitled “The Things We Do for Ourselves: African American Leadership in New Orleans.”