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The Journal of African American History
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COMMENTARY: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA: THE DEBT HAS NOT BEEN
PAID
V.P. Franklin 1
“THIS PITIABLE REJECTION OF A GREAT OPPORTUNITY”: W.E.B. DU BOIS,
CLEMENT G. MORGAN, AND THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATION OF 1890
Bruce A. Kimball 5
RUNNING WITH THE REDS: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE COMMUNIST
PARTY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Lashawn Harris 21
“NOT AN ACADEMIC AFFAIR”: AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOLARS AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES,
1942-1960
Jerry Gershenhorn 44
PRISONER OF LOVE: AFFILIATION, SEXUALITY, AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
Amy Abugo Ongiri 69
ESSAY REVIEWS
AFRICANS, THE BIBLE, AND CHRISTIANITY
Michael Omolewa 87
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
Monique Moultrie 92
BOOK REVIEWS
Jason R. Young, RITUALS OF RESISTANCE: AFRICAN ATLANTIC RELIGION IN THE
KONGO AND LOWCOUNTRY SOUTH IN THE ERA OF SLAVERY
Sergio Lussana 97
David Richardson, Anthony Tibbles, and Suzanne Schwarz, eds., LIVERPOOL AND
TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY
Selwyn Carrington 99
Harriet A. Washington, MEDICAL APARTHEID: THE DARK HISTORY OF MEDICAL
EXPERIMENTATION ON BLACK AMERICANS FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE
PRESENT
Malcolm Mills 101
Susan E. O’Donovan, BECOMING FREE IN THE COTTON SOUTH
Paul Thomas 103
Dale Torston Graden, FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM IN BRAZIL: BAHIA, 1835-1900
Joshua M. Rosenthal 105
Stephanie Mitchem, AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK HEALING
Deirdre Cooper Owens 108
Paul Christopher Johnson, DIASPORA CONVERSIONS: BLACK CARIB RELIGION AND
THE RECOVERY OF AFRICA
Sara B. Farmer 110
Debra A. Reid, REAPING A GREATER HARVEST: AFRICAN AMERICANS, THE
EXTENSION SERVICE, AND RURAL REFORM IN JIM CROW TEXAS
Peggy B. Gill 112
Marie W. Dallam, DADDY GRACE: A CELEBRITY PREACHER AND HIS HOUSE OF
PRAYER
Marne L. Campbell 114
Robert Mann, WHEN FREEDOM WOULD TRIUMPH: THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE IN
CONGRESS, 1954-1968
Stacy Kinlock Sewell 116
Brian K. Landsberg, FREE AT LAST TO VOTE: THE ALABAMA ORIGINS OF THE 1965
VOTING RIGHTS ACT
Ashley M. Howard 118
Leslie W. Lewis, TELLING NARRATIVES: SECRETS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN
LITERATURE
Sandra Bowen 121
Edward J. Blum, W. E. B. DU BOIS, AMERICAN PROPHET\
J.R. Kerr-Ritchie 123
Paul Alkebulan. SURVIVIAL PENDING REVOLUSTION: THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK
PANTHER PARTY
Simon Wendt 125
Paul Buhle, TIM HECTOR: A CARIBBEAN RADICAL’S STORY
David Austin 127
ANNOUNCEMENTS
REMEMBERING GLORIA HARPER DICKINSON (1947-2009) 130
Bettye Collier-Thomas
EBSCOHOST AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE AWARD 133
BOOKS RECEIVED
134
CARTER G. WOODSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIPS, 2008-2009 139
Volume 94, No. 1 Winter 2009
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COMMENTARY: REPARATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL MALFEASANCE
V.P. Franklin 149
GARVEYISM AND LABOR ORGANIZATION ON THE CARIBBEAN COAST OF
GUATEMALA, 1920-1921
Frederick Douglass Opie 153
“WHO DIVIDED THE CHURCH? AFRICAN AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS FIGHT
SEGREGATION IN THE POSTAL UNIONS, 1939-1962
Philip F. Rubio 172
“IN COMMON STRUGGLE AGAINST A COMMON OPPRESSION”: THE UNITED FARM
WORKERS AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, 1968-1973
Lauren Araiza 200
THE MAKING OF A NUCLEAR ENGINEER, INVENTOR, AND BLACK FILM HISTORIAN:
DR. HENRY THOMAS SAMPSON, JR.
Henry Thomas Sampson, Jr. with Laura H. Young-Sampson
224
ESSAY REVIEWS
THE HISTORY OF COLONIALISM IN AFRICA - REVISITED
Michael Omolewa 248
AFRICAN AMERICANS, AFRO-GERMANS, WHITE AMERICANS, AND GERMANS
Kenneth Barkin 253
MEMORY-TELING AND PRAISE-SINGING OF THE GENIUS OF LANGSTON HUGHES
Angelita F. Reyes 266
BOOK REVIEWS
Henry J. Richardson III, THE ORIGINS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTERESTS IN
INTERNATIONAL LAW
Thomas J. Davis 274
S. D. Smith, SLAVERY, FAMILY, AND GENTRY CAPTIALISM IN THE BRITISH
ATLANTIC: THE WORLD OF THE LASCELLES, 1648-1834
Brooke Newman 277
Todd L. Savitt, RACE AND MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH
CENTURY AMERICA
Gregory D. Smithers 280
Margaret Humphreys, INTENSELY HUMAN: THE HEALTH OF THE BLACK SOLDIER IN
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
Chad L. Williams 282
Art T. Burton, BLACK GUN, SILVER STAR: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF FRONTIER
MARSHALL BASS REEVES
Barbara Behan 285
Charles Lumpkins, AMERICAN POGROM: THE EAST ST. LOUIS RACE RIOT AND
BLACK POLITICS
Sundiata Cha-Jua 287
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, MIGRATING TO THE MOVIES: CINEMA AND BLACK
URBAN MODERNITY
Dwayne Mack 290
Cedric J. Robinson, FORGERIES OF MEMORY AND MEANING: BLACKS AND THE
REGIMES OF RACE IN AMERICAN THEATER AND FILM BEFORE WORLD WAR II
Jill Watts 293
Francille Rusan Wilson, SEGREGATED SCHOLARS: BLACK SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
AND THE CREATION OF BLACK LABOR STUDIES, 1890-1950
Lillian S. Williams 296
Sonya Ramsey, READING, WRITING, AND SEGREGATION: A CENTURY OF BLACK
WOMEN TEACHERS IN NASHVILLE
Carter Julian Savage 299
Dan R. Warren, IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER: MARTIN LUTHER KING, THE KKK, AND
STATES’ RIGHTS IN ST. AUGUSTINE, 1964
Dionne Danns 301
Judith Kilpatrick, THERE WHEN WE NEEDED HIM: WILEY AUSTIN BRANTON, CIVIL
RIGHTS WARRIOR
Scott C. Smith 304
Scott Kurashige, THE SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE: BLACK AND JAPANESE
AMERICANS IN THE MAKING OF MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES
Yuichiro Onishi 306
Nell Bernstein, ALL ALONE IN THE WORLD: CHILDREN OF THE INCARCERATED
Felicia W. Mack 309
Wilbur C. Rich, ed., AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE
Floyd W. Hayes, III 311
ANNOUNCEMENTS
REMEMBERING JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN (1915-2009) 316
Volume 94, No. 2 Spring 2009
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Special Issue
The Legacy of Dr. John Hope Franklin
INTRODUCTION: EXPLORING THE LEGACY OF DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
V.P. Franklin 317
A LIFE OF INTEGRITY: A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
Genna Rae McNeil 323
HUMANITY, SCHOLARSHIP, AND PROUD RACE CITIZENSHIP: THE GIFTS OF JOHN
HOPE FRANKLIN
Nell Irvin Painter 341
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, A MENTOR AND CONFIDANTE
Bettye Collier-Thomas 344
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN AND BLACK HISTORY IN TRANSITION
Darlene Clark Hine 354
HISTORIAN IN THE WORLD AND JUDICIOUS RADICAL
Robin D.G. Kelley 362
PARTICIPANT-OBSERVER OF HISTORY: JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN,
SCHOLAR, MENTOR, AND PROMOTER OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY
Lillian Serece Williams 370
“STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS”: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON A
GREAT AMERICAN
Sylvia M. Jacobs 377
“WE CAN BEST HONOR THE PAST…BY FACING IT SQUARELY, HONESTLY, AND
ABOVE ALL, OPENLY”
Robert L. Harris, Jr. 391
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS IN THE JOURNEY FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
James B. Stewart 398
FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM, THIRD EDITION: SNAPSHOT FROM THE LIFE OF A
BOOK
Tony Martin 402
INTERVIEW
INTERVIEW WITH DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
Brian Purnell 407
BOOK REVIEWS
Cedrick May, EVANGELISM AND RESISTANCE IN THE BLACK ATLANTIC, 1760-1835
Annette Palmer 422
Curtis J. Evans, THE BURDEN OF BLACK RELIGION
Barbara L. Green 424
Jane E. Dabel, A RESPECTABLE WOMAN: THE PUBLIC ROLES OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN WOMEN IN NINETEENTH CENTURY NEW YORK
Julie Gallagher
426
Eric Gardner, ed., JENNIE CARTER: A BLACK JOURNALIST IN THE EARLY WEST
Janice L. Sumler-Edmond 428
Micki McElya, CLINGING TO MAMMY: THE FAITHFUL SLAVE IN TWENTIETH
CENTURY AMERICA
Jennifer Frost 430
Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, MAMMY: A CENTURY OF RACE, GENDER, AND
SOUTHERN MEMORY
June O. Patton 432
David M. Lewis-Coleman, RACE AGAINST LIBERALISM: BLACK WORKERS AND THE
UAW IN DETROIT
William P. Jones 435
Margaret Wade-Lewis, LORENZO DOW TURNER: FATHER OF GULLAH STUDIES
Jennifer Hildebrand 436
Beverly Lindsay, ed., RALPH JOHNSON BUNCHE: PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL AND
NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE
Louis J. Wright, Jr. 438
Kevin K. Gaines, AFRICAN AMERICANS IN GHANA: BLACK EXPATRIATES AND THE
CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie 439
Earl Middleton and Joy Barnes, KNOWING WHO I AM: A BLACK ENTREPRENEUR’S
STRUGGLE AND SUCCESS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Oscar Williams 442
Huston Diehl, DREAM NOT OF OTHER WORLDS: TEACHING IN A SEGREGATED
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1970
Elizabeth Bridges 444
Paul Frymer, BLACK AND BLUE: AFRICAN AMERICANS, THE LABOR MOVEMENT
AND THE DECLINE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Simon Topping 446
Jody Miller, GETTING PLAYED: AFRICAN AMERICAN GIRLS, URBAN INEQUALITY,
AND GENDERED VIOLENCE
Bettina L. Love 448
Jennifer A. González, SUBJECT TO DISPLAY: REFRAMING RACE IN
CONTEMPORARY INSTALLATION ART
Andrea Burns 450
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Volume 94, No. 3 Summer 2009
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