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"PROVIDING FOR THE FUTURE": THE WORLD OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN DEPOSITORS OF WASHINGTON, DC'S FREEDMEN'S SAVINGS BANK, 1865-1874 by Barbara P. Josiah 1
"SUPPORTING OUR FRIENDS AND DEFEATING OUR ENEMIES": MILITANCY AND NON-PARTISANSHIP IN THE NAACP, 1936-1948 by Simon Topping 17
GOD, GANDHI, AND GUNS: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA, 1964-1965 by Simon Wendt 36
SOUL CITY, NORTH CAROLINA: BLACK POWER, UTOPIA, AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN DREAM by Christopher Strain 57
ESSAY REVIEW
CORNEL WEST ON SOCIAL JUSTICE by Floyd W. Hayes III 75
BOOK REVIEWS
Barbara Ransby, ELLA BAKER AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT: A RADICAL DEMOCRATIC VISION by Gayle T. Tate 80
Sheila S. Walker, ed., AFRICAN ROOTS/AMERICAN CULTURES: AFRICA IN THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAS by Benjamin A. Cowan 82
Stanley Harrold, SUBVERSIVES: ANTISLAVERY COMMUNITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C., 1828-1865 by David Taft Terry 85
Joanne-Megna-Wallace, UNDERSTANDING I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS: A STUDENT CASEBOOK by Loretta G. Woodard 87
Sasha Torres,BLACK, WHITE, AND IN COLOR: TELEVISION AND BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS by Richard M. Breaux 89
ANNOUNCEMENTS CARTER G. WOODSON DISINGUISHED LECTURERS, 2003-2004 92
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Number 2 Spring 2004 Special Issue: "African Americans and the Urban Landscape"
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INTRODUCTION:
AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE by Linda Serece Williams 93
CAPITAL OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN-WEST INDIAN HARLEM NEXUS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL DRIVE FOR BLACK FREEDOM, 1940-1948 by Jason Parker 98
POLICE-BLACK COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN POSTWAR PHILDELPHIA: RACE AND CRIMINALIZATION IN URBAN SOCIAL SPACES, 1945-1960 by Karl E. Johnson 118
THE "NOT-BUYING POWER" OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY: URBAN BOYCOTTS AND EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY, 1960-1964 by Stacy Kinlock Sewell 135
LATASHA HARLINS, SOON JA DU, AND JOYCE KARLIN: A CASE STUDY OF MULTICULTURAL FEMALE VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE ON THE URBAN FRONTIER by Brenda E. Stevenson 142
SPECIAL REPORT
RECOGNIZING VALUE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE OBJECTS by Elvin Montgomery 177
BOOK REVIEWS
Gayle T. Tate, UNKNOWN TONGUES: BLACK WOMEN’S POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN THE ANTEBELLUM ERA, 1820-1860 by Rhett Jones 183
Marvin McAllister, “WHITE PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE AT ENTERTAINMENTS FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF COLOUR”: WILLIAM BROWN’S AFRICAN AND AMERICAN THEATER by Nikki Taylor 185
Jacqueline Glass Campbell, WHEN SHERMAN MARCHED NORTH FROM THE SEA: RESISTANCE ON THE CONFEDERATE HOME FRONT by Michael E. Long 187
Arnoldo DeLeon, RACIAL FRONTIERS: AFRICANS, CHINESE, AND MEXICANS IN WESTERN AMERICA, 1848-1890 by Albert S. Broussard 189
Robert C. Hayden, MR. HARLEM HOSPITAL: DR. LOUIS T. WRIGHT by Frederick Newsome 191
Carroll Parrott Blue, THE DAWN AT MY BACK: MEMOIR OF A BLACK TEXAS UPBRINGING by Stephanie Wright 193
Joy Ann Williamson, BLACK POWER ON CAMPUS: THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, 1965-1975 by Michael Fultz 195
Maurice O. Wallace, CONSTRUCTING THE BLACK MASCULINE: IDENTITY AND IDEALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN'S LITERATURE AND CULTURE, 1775-1995 by Zachery Williams 196
ANNOUNCEMENTS 199
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Number 3 Summer 2004 Special Issue: "New Directions in African American Women’s History"
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INTRODUCTION: NEW DIRECTIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY by Francille Rusan Wilson 199
THINKING LOCALLY, ACTING GLOBALLY: THE INTERNATIONAL AGENDA OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUBWOMEN, 1888-1940 by Michelle Rief 203
A GENERATION OF WOMEN ACTIVISTS: AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE EDUCATORS IN HARLEM, 1930-1950 by Lauri Johnson 223
BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS FROM THE LATE 19TH CENTURY TO THE DAWN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie 241
ESSAY REVIEW I: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND BLACK POWER by June O. Patton 262
ESSAY REVIEW II: BLACK AND WHITE WOMEN HISTORIANS TOGETHER? by Francille Rusan Wilson 266
BOOK REVIEWS
Lynn M. Hudson, THE MAKING OF “MAMMY PLEASANT”: A BLACK ENTREPRENEUR IN NINETEENTH CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO by Kenneth W. Goings 270
Rayvon Fouché, BLACK INVENTORS IN THE AGE OF SEGREGATION: GRANVILLE T. WOODS, LEWIS H. LATIMER, AND SHELBY DAVIDSON by Robert C. Hayden 271
Frank N. Schubert, ed., VOICES OF THE BUFFALO SOLDIER: RECORDS, REPORTS, AND RECOLLECTIONS OF MILITARY LIFE AND SERVICE IN THE WEST by Sandra E. Bowen 273
Michael E. Lomax, BLACK BASEBALL ENTREPRENEURS, 1860-1901: OPERATING BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY by David Spivey 275
Matthias Reiss, “DIE SCHWARZEN WAREN UNSERE FREUNDE”: DEUTSCHE KRIEGSGEFANGENE IN DER AMERIKANISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT, 1942-1946 by Leroy Hopkins, Jr. 277
Carol Anderson, EYES OFF THE PRIZE: THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, 1944-1955 by Kwame Dixon 278
Kate A. Baldwin, BEYOND THE COLOR LINE AND THE IRON CURTAIN: READING ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN BLACK AND RED, 1932-1963 by Brenda Gayle Plummer 280
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, AMERICAN CONGO: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN THE DELTA by Andrew M. Kaye 282
James H. Madison, A LYNCHING IN THE HEARTLAND: RACE AND MEMORY IN AMERICA by Gregory Mixon 283
John H. Scott with Cleo Scott Brown, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH: MY STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN LOUISIANA by Clyde Robertson 285
Bruce R. Hare, ed., 2001 RACE ODYSSEY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SOCIOLOGY by Ben Frymer 287
Linda Williams, PLAYING THE RACE CARD: MELODRAMAS OF BLACK AND WHITE FROM UNCLE TOM TO O.J. SIMPSON by Benjamin Justesen 289
ANNOUNCEMENTS 291
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THE MARKETING OF DUKE ELLINGTON: SETTING THE STRATEGY FOR AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAESTRO by Harvey G. Cohen 291
PINKSTER IN CHICAGO: BUD BILLIKEN AND THE MAYOR OF BRONZEVILLE, 1930-1945 by Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott 316
THE NURTURANCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC TALENT by Beatrice L. Bridglall and Edmund W. Gordon 331
SPECIAL REPORT
ACTUARIAL ISSUES IN INSURANCE ON SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES SOUTH by Cheryl Rhan-Hsin Chen and Gary Simon 348
INTERVIEW
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NAVY DURING THE CIVIL WAR by Helen Hannon 358
BOOK REVIEWS
Joanna Brooks, AMERICAN LAZARUS: RELIGION AND THE RISE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURES by Lamont DeHaven King 362
Jacqueline Bacon, “THE HUMBLEST MAY STAND FORTH”: RHETORIC, EMPOWERMENT, AND ABOLITION by Eric Gardner 364
Stanley Harrold, THE RISE OF AGGRESSIVE ABOLITIONISM: ADDRESSES TO THE SLAVES by Jacqueline Bacon 365
Dylan C. Penningroth, THE CLAIMS OF KINFOLK: AFRICAN AMERICAN PROPOERTY AND COMMUNITY IN THE NINETEENTHCENTURY SOUTH by Larry E. Hudson Jr. 367
Bonnie Stepenoff, THAD SNOW: A LIFE OF SOCIAL REFORM IN THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL by Debra F. Greene 369
Dianne Johnson, editor, THE COLLECTED WORKS OF LANGSTON HUGHES: WORKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper 371
Tatcho Mindiola, Jr., Yolanda Flores Niemann, and Nestor Rodriquez, BLACK-BROWN: RELATIONS AND STEREOTYPES by Zebulon V. Miletsky 372
Richard E. Harris, THE AMERICAN ODYSSEY OF A BLACK JOURNALIST, 1933-2003 by Geta LeSeur 374
Jerald E. Podair, THE STRIKE THAT CHANGED NEW YORK: BLACKS, WHITES, AND THE OCEAN HILL-BROWNSVILLE CRISIS by Clarence Taylor 376
Katherine Tate, BLACK FACES IN THE MIRROR: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE U.S. CONGRESS by Louis Randolph 378
BOOKS RECEIVED 381
ANNOUNCEMENTS 386
INDEX TO VOLUME 89 396
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