The Journal of African American History
Formerly The Journal of Negro History
Founded by Carter G. Woodson, January 1, 1916
A Publication of the
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
The Journal of
African American
History

Volume 94
2009
Volume 94, No. 1      Winter 2009
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)
Bettye Collier-Thomas
130
EBSCOHOST AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE AWARD  
133
BOOKS RECEIVED
134
CARTER G. WOODSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIPS, 2008-2009
139
Volume 94, No. 2      Spring 2009
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. 3       Summer 2009
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. 4          Fall 2009                                                                                          
  
Special Issue: “Documenting the NAACP’s First Century”
INTRODUCTION: DOCUMENTING THE NAACP’S FIRST CENTURY: FROM
COMBATING RACIAL INJUSTICES TO CHALLENGING RACIAL INEQUITIES?
V.P. Franklin
453
FIGHTING FOR SERGEANT CALDWELL: THE NAACP CAMPAIGN AGAINST
“LEGAL” LYNCHING AFTER WORLD WAR I
Vincent P. Mikkelsen
464
“WE MUST MARCH FORWARD!” JUANITA JACKSON AND THE ORIGINS OF THE
NAACP YOUTH MOVEMENT
Thomas L. Bynum
487        
THE NAACP STATE CONFERENCE IN TEXAS: INTERMEDIARY AND CATALYST
FOR CHANGE, 1938-1957
Ramona Houston
509
THE NAACP TEACHERS’ SALARY EQUALIZATION CAMPAIGN:  AFRICAN
AMERICAN WOMEN TEACHERS AND THE EARLY CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE
John A. Kirk
529
SPECIAL REPORT
THE NAACP ON FILM: THREE DOCUMENTARIES FROM CALIFORNIA
NEWSREEL
Marne C. Campbell
553
ESSAY REVIEW
BLACK WOMEN, RELIGIOUS RHETORIC, AND THE LEGACY OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
561
BOOK REVIEWS
James Sidbury, BECOMING AFRICAN IN AMERICA: RACE AND NATION IN THE
EARLY REPUBLIC
H. Paul Thompson
571
Christopher Malone, BETWEEN FREEDOM AND BONDAGE: RACE, PARTY, AND
VOTING RIGHTS IN THE ANTEBELLUM NORTH
Derrick D. McKisick
573
Martha S. Jones, ALL BOUND UP TOGETHER: THE WOMAN QUESTION IN
AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLIC CULTURE, 1830-1900
Khadijah O. Miller        
575
Lois Brown, PAULINE ELIZABETH HOPKINS: BLACK DAUGHTER OF THE
REVOLUTION
Hanna Wallinger
578
Amy Helene Kirschke, ART IN CRISIS: W.E.B. DU BOIS AND THE STRUGGLE
FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY AND MEMORY
Randall O. Westbrook
580
Anthea Kraut, CHOREOGRAPHING THE FOLK: THE DANCE STAGINGS OF
ZORA NEALE HURSTON
LeVerne Gyant
582
Morris L. Davis, THE METHODIST UNIFICATION: CHRISTIANITY AND THE
POLITICS OF RACE IN THE JIM CROW ERA
Kathleen Hladkly
584
Bruce Kuklick, BLACK PHILOSOPHER, WHITE ACADEMY: THE CAREER OF
WILLIAM FONTAINE
Jack Carson, Jr.
586
Simon Topping, LINCOLN’S LOST LEGACY: THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTE, 1928-1952
Walter Greason
587
Tom Graham and Rachel Graham Cody, GETTING OPEN: THE UNKNOWN
STORY OF BILL GARRETT AND THE INTEGRATION OF COLLEGE
BASKETBALL
Bryan Bracey
589
Michael E. Lomax, ed., SPORTS AND THE RACIAL DIVIDE: AFRICAN AMERICAN
AND LATINO EXPERIENCE IN THE ERA OF CHANGE
Derrick A. White
591
Derrick P. Alridge, THE EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT OF W.E.B. DU BOIS: AN
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Holly Fisher
594
Omar H. Ali, IN THE BALANCE OF POWER: INDEPENDENT BLACK POLITICS
AND THIRD–PARTY MOVEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Daryl A. Carter
596
Stephane Dunn, “BAAD BITCHES AND SASSY SUPERMAMAS”: BLACK POWER
ACTION FILMS
Jason Perkins
598
Mary E. Pattillo, BLACK ON THE BLOCK: THE POLITICS OF RACE AND CLASS
IN THE CITY
Daniel McClure
600
Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen, eds., AFRO-ASIA: REVOLUTUONARY POLITICAL
AND CULTURAL CONNECTINS BETWEEN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND ASIAN
AMERICANS
Carol Huang
602
ANNOUNCEMENTS
CARTER G. WOODSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS, 2009-2010
605
INDEX TO VOLUME 94
615  
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