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 99
2014
The Journal of African American History

Volume 99, No.1-2     Winter-Spring 2014
Special Issue
“Rediscovering the Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”
John R. McKivigan, Guest Editor

COMMENTARY – “SAVING HOWARD” WHILE SAVING OUR CHILDREN
V. P. Franklin… 1

INTRODUCTION: REDISCOVERING THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
John R. McKivigan… 4

“FINISHED BY THE HAND BY WHICH IT WAS BEGUN”: WHO WROTE LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS?
Robin L. Condon… 12

“MR. DOUGLASS MUST SHARE…OUR DISAPPOINTMENT”: THE COMMERCIAL AND AESTHETIC FAILURE OF LIFE AND TIMES
Julie Roy Jeffrey… 20

FREDERICK DOUGLASS AND THOMAS AULD: RECONSIDERING THE REUNION NARRATIVE
Robert S. Levine… 34

STALWART DOUGLASS: LIFE AND TIMES AS POLITICAL MANIFESTO
John R. McKivigan… 46

SEED-TIME AND HARVEST TIME: NATURAL LAW AND RATIONAL HOPEFULNESS IN FREDERICK DOUGLASS’S LIFE AND TIMES
Peter C. Myers… 56

“THE EVER PRESENT NOW”: FREDERICK DOUGLASS’S PRAGMATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM
Wilson J. Moses… 71

INTERVIEW

THE MAKING OF A HISTORIAN: AN INTERVIEW WITH STERLING STUCKEY
David Roediger… 89

ESSAY REVIEWS

12 YEARS A SLAVE: NARRATIVE, HISTORY, AND FILM
Brenda E. Stevenson… 106

THELONIUS MONK: “THE HIGH PRIEST OF BEBOP”
Larry A. Greene… 119

RACE AND POWER AROUND THE WORLD
Brenda Gayle Plummer… 123

BOOK REVIEWS

Alan Gilbert, BLACK PATRIOTS AND LOYALISTS: FIGHTING FOR EMANCIPATION IN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Kathryn Green… 127

Thomas J. Craughwell, THOMAS JEFFERSON’S CRÈME BRULEE: HOW A FOUNDING FATHER AND HIS SLAVE JAMES HEMINGS INTRODUCED FRENCH CUISINE TO AMERICA
Jillian Azevedo… 129

Kate Masur, AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL THE LAND: EMANCIPATION AND THE STRUGGLE OVER EQUALITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Lauren Pearlman… 131

Nicole A. Waligora-Davis, SANCTUARY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND EMPIRE
Wanda Faye Jackson… 134

Anne Anlin Cheng, SECOND SKIN: JOSEPHINE BAKER & THE MODERN SURFACE
Carol L. Bristol… 136

Michelle Plastas, A BAND OF NOBLE WOMEN: RACIAL POLITICS IN THE WOMEN’S PEACE MOVEMENT
Dayo F. Gore… 138

Anastasia C. Curwood, STORMY WEATHER: MIDDLE-CLASS AFRICAN AMERICAN MARRIAGES BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
Frances Smith Foster… 140

Erik S. Gellman, DEATH BLOW TO JIM CROW: THE NATIONAL NEGRO CONGRESS AND THE RISE OF MILITANT CIVIL RIGHTS
David Graham… 142

Sasha Bernstein, BRIDGES OF REFORM: INTERRACIAL CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY LOS ANGELES
Sean Slusser… 144

Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD: THE SELMA CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Michael Blum… 146

Jonna Perrillo, UNCIVIL RIGHTS: TEACHERS, UNIONS, AND RACE IN THE BATTLE FOR SCHOOL EQUALITY
Tiffany A. Flowers… 148

Julie A. Gallagher, BLACK WOMEN AND POLITICS IN NEW YORK CITY
Daryl A. Carter… 149

B. J. Hollars, THIRTEEN LOOPS: RACE, VIOLENCE, AND THE LAST LYNCHING IN AMERICA
John H. Barnhill… 151

Lawrence Allen Eldridge, CHRONICLES OF A TWO-FRONT WAR: CIVIL RIGHTS AND VIETNAM IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESS
William M. King… 153

Orissa Arend, SHOWDOWN IN DESIRE: THE BLACK PANTHERS TAKE A STAND IN NEW ORLEANS
Kerry L. Pimblott… 154

Robert Stanley Oden, FROM BLACKS TO BROWN AND BEYOND: THE STRUGGLE FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICS IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, 1966-2011
Cecilia Márquez… 156

Deidre Helen Crumbley, SAVED AND SANCTIFIED: THE RISE OF A STOREFRONT CHURCH IN GREAT MIGRATION PHILADELPHIA
Greer C. Stanford-Randle… 159

Darieck Scott, EXTRAVAGANT ABJECTION: BLACKNESS, POWER, AND SEXUALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Amy Abugo Ongiri… 160

Aime J. Ellis, IF WE MUST DIE: FROM BIGGER THOMAS TO BIGGIE SMALLS
Treva B. Lindsey… 163

Matt Miller, BOUNCE: RAP MUSIC AND LOCAL IDENTITY IN NEW ORLEANS
Mychal Matsemela-Ali Odom… 165

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BOOKS RECEIVED – 2013… 167

The Journal of African American History

Volume 99, No. 3     Summer 2014
“PREMATURELY KNOWING OF EVIL THINGS”: THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
Wilma King .... 173

“I FEEL SORRY FOR THESE PEOPLE”: AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR, 1899–1902
Timothy D. Russell .... 197

“MILITANT RECONCILING LOVE”: HOWARD UNIVERSITY’S RANKIN NETWORK AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Larry O. Rivers .... 223

“JODY’S GOT YOUR GIRL AND GONE”: GENDER, FOLKLORE, AND THE BLACK WORKING CLASS
Tyina Steptoe .... 251

ESSAY REVIEWS

THE BLACK-BLUES AESTHETIC AND THE WRITINGS OF 275 TONI MORRISON AND ETHERIDGE KNIGHT
Tony Bolden .... 275

HURRICANE KATRINA: PERSPECTIVES ON WINNERS AND LOSERS
Amadu Jacky Kaba .... 290

BOOK REVIEWS

Watson W. Jennison, CULTIVATING RACE: THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY IN GEORGIA, 1750–1860
Kellie Carter Jackson
.... 299

Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, FORGING FREEDOM: BLACK WOMEN AND THE PURSUIT OF LIBERTY IN ANTEBELLUM CHARLESTON
Kevin D. Butler
.... 301

Freddi Williams Evans, CONGO SQUARE: AFRICAN ROOTS IN NEW ORLEANS
Earle V. Bryant
.... 303

J. Michael Martinez, COMING FOR TO CARRY ME HOME: RACE IN AMERICA FROM ABOLITIONISM TO JIM CROW
Brandon T. Jett
.... 305

Robert Cassanello, TO RENDER INVISIBLE: JIM CROW AND PUBLIC LIFE IN NEW SOUTH JACKSONVILLE
Jonathon Booth
.... 308

Kidada E. Williams, THEY LEFT GREAT MARKS ON ME: AFRICAN AMERICAN TESTIMONIES OF RACIAL VIOLENCE FROM EMANCIPATION TO WORLD WAR I
Karen Cook Bell
.... 310

Felix L. Armfield, EUGENE KINCKLE JONES: THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE AND BLACK SOCIAL WORK, 1910–1940
Millington Bergeson-Lockwood
.... 312

Allan W. Austin, QUAKER BROTHERHOOD: INTERRACIAL ACTIVISM AND THE AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, 1917–1950
Eric R. Jackson
.... 315

Beth Tompkins Bates, THE MAKING OF BLACK DETROIT IN THE AGE OF HENRY FORD
Rowena I. Alfonso
.... 316

Geoff K. Ward, THE BLACK CHILD-SAVERS: RACIAL DEMOCRACY AND JUVENILE JUSTICE
Margaret A. Nash
.... 318

Jay Garcia, PSYCHOLOGY COMES TO HARLEM: RETHINKING THE RACE QUESTION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA
Gavan Lennon
.... 321

John H. Roper, Sr., THE MAGNIFICENT MAYS: A BIOGRAPHY OF BENJAMIN ELIJAH MAYS
Ervin James III
.... 323

Donald Spivey, “IF YOU WERE ONLY WHITE”: THE LIFE OF LEROY “SATCHEL” PAIGE
Amy Essington
.... 325

Preston H. Smith, RACIAL DEMOCRACY AND THE BLACK METROPOLIS: HOUSING POLICY IN POSTWAR CHICAGO
Destiney Linker
.... 327

Alyosha Goldstein, POVERTY IN COMMON: THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY ACTION DURING THE AMERICAN CENTURY
Emily M. Hall
.... 330

John P. Spencer, IN THE CROSSFIRE: MARCUS FOSTER AND THE TROUBLED HISTORY OF AMERICAN SCHOOL REFORM
Ann-Marie Adams
.... 332

Robin D. G. Kelley, AFRICA SPEAKS, AMERICA ANSWERS: MODERN JAZZ IN REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
Larry A. Greene
.... 334

Beth E. Richie, ARRESTED JUSTICE: BLACK WOMEN, VIOLENCE, AND AMERICA’S PRISON NATION
Karen A. Johnson
.... 337

Andra Gillespie, THE NEW BLACK POLITICIAN: CORY BOOKER, NEWARK, AND POST-RACIAL AMERICA
Alec Fazackerley Hickmott
.... 339

Erica R. Edwards, CHARISMA AND THE FICTIONS OF BLACK LEADERSHIP
Myeshia C. Babers
.... 341

Angela Y. Davis, THE MEANING OF FREEDOM: AND OTHER DIFFICULT DIALOGUES
Fenobia I. Dallas
.... 343

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Papers: "Ten Point Program for Reparations for African Americans" .... 346
The Journal of African American History

Volume 99, No. 4     Fall 2014
COMMENTARY - UNITED FRONT: SERVICE WORKERS AND SUPPORTERS OF REPARATORY JUSTICE
V. P. Franklin... 347

AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS AS CULTURAL NATIONALISTS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN AND MBONU OJIKE
Gloria Chuku... 350

SYMBOLS OF POSSIBILITY: ARTHUR ASHE, BLACK ATHLETES, AND THE WRITING OF A HARD ROAD TO GLORY
David K. Wiggins... 379

REPARATIONS AND HISTORY: THE EMANCIPATION GENERATION’S ETHICAL LEGACY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Lynda Morgan... 403

ESSAY REVIEWS


AFRICAN AMERICANS AND HEALTH CARE: STATE-SPONSORED AND GRASSROOTS ALTERNATIVES
Merlin Chowkwanyun... 427

BEYOND A LONG CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Jeffrey Helgeson... 442

BOOK REVIEWS


Rachel Sarah O’Toole, BOUND LIVES: AFRICANS, INDIANS, AND THE MAKING OF RACE IN COLONIAL PERU
Christina Violeta Jones
... 456

Andrew Sluyter, BLACK RANCHING FRONTIERS: AFRICAN CATTLE HERDERS OF THE ATLANTIC WORLD, 1500-1900
Barbara P. Josiah
... 457

Sydney Nathans, TO FREE A FAMILY: THE JOURNAL OF MARY WALKER
Jewell C. Debnam
... 460

Gary B. Agee, A CRY FOR JUSTICE: DANIEL RUDD AND HIS LIFE IN BLACK CATHOLICISM, JOURNALISM, AND ACTIVISM, 1854-1933
Paul E. Green
... 462

Daniel G. Williams, BLACK SKIN, BLUE BOOKS: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND WALES, 1845-1945
Bruce T. Grady
... 464

Gerald Horne, FIGHTING IN PARADISE: LABOR UNIONS, RACISM, AND COMMUNISTS IN THE MAKING OF MODERN HAWAI’I
Eric S. McDuffie
... 466

Aniko Bodroghkozy, EQUAL TIME: TELEVISION AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Yuya Kiuchi
... 469

Francoise N. Hamlin, CROSSROADS AT CLARKSDALE: THE BLACK FREDDOM STRUGGLE IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA AFTER WORLD WAR II
Robert Greene II
... 471

Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner with Cheryl Reitan, THUNDER OF FREEDOM: BLACK LEADERSHIP AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF 1960s MISSISSIPPI
Crystal R. Sanders
... 473

Zoe A. Colley, AIN’T SCARED OF YOUR JAIL: ARREST, IMPRISONMENT, AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Stacy Kinlock Sewell
... 475

Jack Shuler, BLOOD AND BONE: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN A SOUTHERN TOWN
Darius J. Young
... 477

Edythe Scott Bagley, DESERT ROSE: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF CORETTA SCOTT KING
Julie Gallagher
... 479

Michael G. Long, ed., I MUST RESIST: BAYARD RUSTIN’S LIFE IN LETTERS
Jerald Podair
... 481

Keith Wailoo, HOW CANCER CROSSED THE COLOR LINE
Leif Fredrickson
... 484

N. Jeremi Duru, ADVANCING THE BALL: RACE, REFORMATION, AND THE QUEST FOR EQUAL COACHING OPPORTUNITY IN THE NFL
George B. Kirsch
... 486

Stephen Tuck, WE AIN’T WHAT WE OUGHT TO BE: THE BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE FROM EMANCIPATION TO OBAMA
Brian Purnell
... 489

Kim Marie Vaz, THE “BABY DOLLS”: BREAKING THE RACE AND GENDER BARRIERS OF THE NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS TRADITION
Marquis Bey
... 492

Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford, ELUSIVE EQUALITY: DESEGREGATION AND RESEGREGATION IN NORFOLK’S PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Mary C. Doyle
... 494

David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis, eds., AMBIGUOUS ANNIVERSARY: THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE BANS
Jarvis L. Hargrove
... 496

Gregory S. Parks and Stefan M. Bradley, eds., ALPHA PHI ALPHA: A LEGACY OF GREATNESS, THE DEMANDS OF TRANSCENDENCE
Gregory Lewis Bynum
... 498

ANNOUNCEMENTS


Call for Papers: “Ten Point Program for Reparations for African Americans”... 502

INDEX TO VOLUME 99... 508
JAAH Vol. 99 No 3