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 97
2012
The Journal of African American History

Volume 97, No.1-2     Winter-Spring 2012



Special Issue:
African Americans and Movements for Reparations: Past, Present, and Future

Dedicated to the Memory and Scholarly Legacy of Dr. Ronald W. Walters

Contents

INTRODUCTION - AFRICAN AMERICANS AND MOVEMENTS FOR REPARATIONS: FROM EX-SLAVE PENSIONS TO THE REPARATIONS SUPERFUND
V.P. Franklin ... 1

ENCOUNTERING THE EX-SLAVE REPARATIONS MOVEMENT FROM THE GRAVE: THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL AND NATIONAL LIBERTY PARTY, 1901-1907
James M. Davidson ... 13

"WE ARE DEMANDING $500 MILLION IN REPARATIONS": THE BLACK MANIFESTO, MAINLINE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS, AND BLACK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Elaine Allen Lechtreck ... 39

LESSONS IN HEARING HUMAN AND DIVINE DISCONTENT: THE BLACK MANIFESTO AND EPISCOPAL LEADERS AND CONGREGATIONS IN THE DETROIT AREA
Keith A. Dye ... 72

COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENTS: A CASE STUDY IN ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC INJUSTICES
Emma T. Lucas-Darby ... 92

THE IMPACT OF SLAVERY ON 20th and 21st CENTURY BLACK PROGRESS
Ronald W. Walters ... 110

ESSAY REVIEW - I

REPARATIONS DEMANDS FOR THE NEW MILLENIUM
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie ... 131

 

ARICAN AMERICANS AND REPARATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS

Douglas A. Blackmon, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: THE RE-ENSLAVEMENT OF BLACK AMERICANS FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO WORLD WAR II
Albert S. Broussard ... 141

James Loewen, SUNDOWN TOWNS: A HIDDEN DIMENSION OF AMERICAN RACISM
Greta de Jong ... 145

Elliot Jaspin, BURIED IN THE BITTER WATERS: THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF RACIAL CLEANSING IN AMERICA
Clarence Lang ... 148

Beryl Satter, FAMILY PROPERTIES: RACE, REAL ESTATE, AND THE EXPLOITATION OF BLACK URBAN AMERICA
John H. Barnhill ... 149

David M. P. Freund, COLORED PROPERTY: STATE POLICY AND WHITE RACIAL POLITICS IN SUBURBAN AMERICA
Hilary J. Moss ... 153

Charles P. Henry, LONG OVERDUE: THE POLITICS OF RACIAL REPARATIONS
James G. Ryan ... 156

John Torpey, MAKING WHOLE WHAT HAS BEEN SMASHED: ON REPARATIONS POLITICS
Gayle T. Tate ... 158

ESSAY REVIEW - II

BLUEPRINTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH
Clyde C. Robertson ... 163

BOOK REVIEWS

Douglas R. Egerton, DEATH OR LIBERTY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
Jessica Millward ... 174

Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff, IN THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: AFRICA'S BOTANICAL LEGACY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Kellie Carter Jackson ... 176

Eric Foner, THE FIERY TRIAL: ABRAHAM LICOLN AND AMERICAN SLAVERY
Larry Greene ... 178

Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller, eds., THE GREAT TASK BEFORE US: RECONSTRUCTION AS AMERICA'S CONTINUING CIVIL WAR
Bertis English ... 180

Christopher Waldrep, JURY DISCRIMINATION: THE SUPREME COURT, PUBLIC OPINION, AND A GRASSROOTS FIGHT FOR RACIAL EQUALITY IN MISSISSIPPI
Amos Jones ... 184

Michael B. Boston, THE BUSINESS STRATEGY OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: ITS DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION
Marcus Anthony Allen ... 187

Karl Hagstrom Miller, SEGREGATING SOUND: INVENTING FOLK AND POP MUSIC IN THE AGE OF JIM CROW
Korey Bowers Brown ... 189

J. Todd Moye, FREEDOM FLYERS: THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN OF WORLD WAR II
Keith Mann ... 191

Gerald Horne, MAU MAU IN HARLEM? THE UNITED STATES AND THE LIBERATION OF KENYA
Beverly Grier ... 193

Katherine Mellen Charron, FREEDOM'S TEACHER: THE LIFE OF SEPTIMA CLARK
Michael Fultz ... 195

Zain Abdullah, BLACK MECCA: THE AFRICAN MUSLIMS OF HARLEM
Courtney Lyons ... 197

Peter J. Paris, ed., RELIGION AND POVERTY: PAN-AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES
Youseef J. Carter ... 200

K.Wailoo, K. M. O'Neill, J. Dowd, and R. Anglin, eds., KATRINA'S IMPRINT: RACE AND VULNERABILITY IN AMERICA
Sharon Pierson ... 202

Ronald W. Walters, FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH: BLACK VOTERS, BLACK CANDIDATES, AND AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
Daryl A. Carter ... 204

Frances Smith Foster, TIL DEATH OR DISTANCE DO US PART: LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN AFRICAN AMERICA
Marcia Chatelain ... 206

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BOOKS RECEIVED - 2011 209


 

 



The Journal of African American History
Volume 97, No. 3                                                   Summer  2012



Contents

“OUR BRETHREN IN THE WEST INDIES”: SELF-EMANCIPATED PEOPLE IN CANADA AND THE ANTEBELLUM POLITICS OF DIASPORA AND EMPIRE
Ikuko Asaka … 219

“A SONG WITHOUT WORDS”: ANTI-LYNCHING IMAGERY IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESS, 1889-1898
Amanda K. Friskin … 240

JIM CROW STRIKES AGAIN: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESS CAMPAIGN AGAINST SEGREGATION IN BOWLING DURING WORLD WAR II
Patricia L. Dooley … 270

ESSAY REVIEWS

CIVIL RELIGION AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE RHETORIC OF BARACK OBAMA
David Howard-Pitney … 291

FREEDOM, BODILY TRAUMA, AND SURVIVAL: NEW TRAJECTORIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S LITERARY CRITICISM
Sandra C. Duvivier … 303

BOOK REVIEWS

Frederick C. Knight, WORKING THE DIASPORA: THE IMPACT OF AFRICAN LABOR ON THE ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLD, 1650-1850
Walter Rucker … 312

Thomas C. Holt, CHILDREN OF FIRE: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
Chad L. Williams … 314

Julie Winch, THE CLAMORGANS: ONE FAMILY’S HISTORY OF RACE IN AMERICA
Floris Barnett Cash … 316

Phillip Morgan, ed., AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE IN THE GEORGIA LOWCOUNTRY: THE ATLANTIC WORLD AND THE GULLAH GEECHEE
Brandon Byrd …318

Kirsten Pai Buick, CHILD OF FIRE: MARY EDMONIA LEWIS AND THE PROBLEM OF ART HISTORY’S BLACK AND INDIAN SUBJECT
Margaret Rose Vendryes …321

Gretchen Murphy, SHADOWING THE WHITE MAN’S BURDEN: IMPERIALISM AND THE PROBLEM OF THE COLOR LINE
Kira Thurman… 324

R. Volney Riser, DEFYING DISFRANCHISEMENT: BLACK VOTING RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH, 1890-1908
Kevin Anderson… 326

Frederick Douglass Opie, BLACK LABOR MIGRATION IN CARIBBEAN GUATEMALA, 1882-1923
Ashley Robertson… 328

Chad L. Williams, TORCHBEARERS OF DEMOCRACY: AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THE WORLD WAR I ERA
Vincent P. Mikkelsen… 330

Frank Andre Guridy, FORGING DIASPORA: AFRO-CUBANS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS IN A WORLD OF EMPIRE AND JIM CROW
Jualynne E. Dodson … 332

Zachery R. Williams, IN SEARCH OF THE TALENTED TENTH: HOWARD UNIVERSITY PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS AND THE DILEMMAS OF RACE, 1926-1970
Gregory Lewis Bynum.. 334

S. White, S. Garton, S. Robertson, and G. White, PLAYING THE NUMBERS: GAMBLING IN HARLEM BETWEEN THE WARS
Jeffrey D. Gonda… 336

Rebecca Sharpless, COOKING IN OTHER WOMEN’S KITCHENS: DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE SOUTH, 1865-1960
Cynthia Greenlee-Donnell… 338

Charles H. Martin, BENCHING JIM CROW: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE COLOR LINE IN SOUTHERN COLLEGE SPORTS, 1890-1980
J. Anthony Guillory… 341

Dayo F. Gore, RADICALISM AT THE CROSSROADS: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN ACTIVISTS IN THE COLD WAR
Kevin Grimm…342

Larry A. Green and Anke Ortlepp, eds., GERMANS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS: TWO CENTURIES OF EXCHANGE
Robert Munro… 344

Clarence Lang, GRASSROOTS AT THE GATEWAY: CLASS POLITICS AND BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN ST. LOUIS, 1936-1975
Tyran Steward… 348

Lewis V. Baldwin, THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE: THE CHURCH IN THE MIND OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Larry C. Menyweather-Woods… 350

Gordon A. Martin, Jr., COUNT THEM ONE BY ONE: BLACK MISSISSIPPIANS FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE
Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir … 352

F. S. Holsaert, M. P. Norman Noonan, J. Richardson, B. G. Robinson, and D. M. Zellner, eds., HANDS ON THE FREEDOM PLOW: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS BY WOMEN IN SNCC
Ed Collins… 354

Donna Jean Murch, LIVING FOR THE CITY: MIGRATION, EDUCATION, AND THE RISE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
William Sturkey…358

Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow, eds., LIBERATED TERRITORY: UNTOLD PERSPECTIVES ON THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
Eric W. Petenbrink…360

Devin Fergus, LIBERALISM, BLACK POWER, AND THE MAKING OF AMERICAN POLITICS, 1965-1980
David Goldberg…363

Zachery Williams, ed., AFRICANA CULTURES AND POLICY STUDIES: SCHOLARSHIP AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF PUBLIC POLICY
Ahati N. N. Toure …365

Bill Minutaglio, IN SEARCH OF THE BLUES: A JOURNAL TO THE SOUL OF BLACK TEXAS
Robert Hawkins… 367


ANNOUNCEMENTS …370

The Journal of African American History
Volume 97, No. 4
                                               Fall 2012



Contents

COMMENTARY: REPARATIONS SUPERFUND: NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER
V. P. Franklin… 371

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, WEALTH ACCUMULATION, AND SOCIAL WELFARE ACTIVISM IN 19TH CENTURY LOS ANGELES
Marne L. Campbell… 376

REINFORCING MANLINESS: BLACK STATE MILITIAS, THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, AND THE IMAGE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIER, 1891-1900
Andrew D. Amron… 401

FACTS AND MEMORIES: JOHN R. LYNCH AND THE REVISING OF RECONSTRUCTION HISTORY IN THE ERA OF JIM CROW
Justin Behrend… 427

GEORGE E. C. HAYES: UNSUNG CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES HERO
Kurt L. Schmoke… 449

ESSAY REVIEW

THE TRIAL OF ANTHONY BURNS AND THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR
Jon-Christian Suggs… 466

BOOK REVIEWS

Frank T. Proctor, “DAMNED NOTIONS OF LIBERTY”: SLAVERY, CULTURE, AND POWER IN MEXICO, 1640-1769
Irene E. Vasquez… 475

James H. Sweet, DOMINGOS ALVARES, AFRICAN HEALING, AND THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD
Opolot Okia… 477

Steven Lubet, FUGITIVE JUSTICE: RUNAWAYS, RESCUERS, AND SLAVERY ON TRIAL
David Taft Terry… 479

Scott Christianson, FREEING CHARLES: THE STRUGGLE TO FREE A SLAVE ON THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR
Dann J. Broyld… 482

Elizabeth Abel, SIGNS OF THE TIMES; THE VISUAL POLITICS OF JIM CROW
Daryl A. Carter… 484

Anne Valk and Leslie Brown, LIVING WITH JIM CROW: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND MEMORIES OF THE SEGREGATED SOUTH
Pamela O. Brown… 485

Eric C. Porter, THE PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE WORLD: W. E. B. DU BOIS AND THE RACE CONCEPT AT MIDCENTURY
Michelle A. Stephens… 487

Edward L. Posey, THE U.S. ARMY’S FIRST, LAST, AND ONLY ALL-BLACK RANGERS: THE 2ND RANGER INFANTRY COMPANY (AIRBORNE) IN THE KOREAN WAR, 1950-1951
Fenobia I. Dallas… 489

Leon Haley, THE QUIET ONE; GENERAL ROSCOE ROBINSON, JR
Henry T. Brownlee, Jr…. 491

Emilye Crosby, ed., CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY FROM THE GROUND UP: LOCAL STRUGGLES, A NATIONAL MOVEMENT
Edgar Dyer… 494

Trudier Harris, THE SCARY MASON-DIXON LINE: AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS AND THE SOUTH
Christy Garrison Harrison… 496

Jonathan M. Metzl, THE PROTEST PSYCHOSIS: HOW SCHIZOPHRENIA BECAME A BLACK DISEASE
Frank M. Johnson… 499

Sonya Douglass Horsford, LEARNING IN A BURNING HOUSE: EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY, IDEOLOGY, AND (DIS)INTEGRATION
Diedre Houchen… 501

Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramón, eds., BLACK LOS ANGELES: AMERICAN DREAMS AND RACIAL REALITIES
John H. Barnhill… 504

Nelson Mandela, CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF
Gordon E. Thompson… 507

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CARTER G. WOODSON LECTURERS – 2012-2013… 511

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