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The Movement The African American Struggle for Civil Rights


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English | ISBN: 0197525792 | 2021 | 176 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle.

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The Arab-african Connection Political And Economic Realities


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367305623, 0367290162 | EPUB | pages: 174 | 0.6 mb
Between June 1967 and the end of 1973, most independent Black African states abandoned their neutral position in the Middle East conflict, cut their ties with Israel, and gave full support to the political aims of the Arab states. Since the beginning of 1974, however, and despite attempts by the Arabs to shield their new allies from the adverse effects of the 1973-74 world oil and economic crises, the alliance has begun to fragment as the African states become transformed from partners to clients and dependents of the Arabs. This study examines the roots of the African conversion, the nature of the evolving relationship between the African and Arab states, and the reasons―economic and political―for the transformation of the alliance. Basic to that transformation, the authors argue, is a fundamental change in the international status and power of the Arab states, a change that has led them to cast their lot with the industrialized "First World" rather than with the poorer, less developed countries.

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South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists 44th Annual Conference, SAICSIT 2023, Pret


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English | ISBN: 3031396510 | 2023 | 304 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This book contains a selection of the best papers of the 44th Annual Conference, SAICSIT 2023, held in Pretoria, South Africa, in July 2023.The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 regular submissions. They adress various aspects of the role of computer science in connectivity, information systems for connectivity, connecting society and emerging technologies for connectivity

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Soundscapes of Liberation African American Music in Postwar France


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English | ISBN: 1478013761 | 2021 | 312 pages | AZW3 | 6 MB
In Soundscapes of Liberation, Celeste Day Moore traces the popularization of African American music in postwar France, where it signaled new forms of power and protest. Moore surveys a wide range of musical genres, soundscapes, and media: the US military’s wartime records and radio programs; the French record industry’s catalogs of blues, jazz, and R&B recordings; the translations of jazz memoirs; a provincial choir specializing in spirituals; and US State Department-produced radio programs that broadcast jazz and gospel across the French empire. In each of these contexts, individual intermediaries such as educators, producers, writers, and radio deejays imbued African American music with new meaning, value, and political power. Their work resonated among diverse Francophone audiences and transformed the lives and labor of many African American musicians, who found financial and personal success as well as discrimination in France. By showing how the popularity of African American music was intertwined with contemporary structures of racism and imperialism, Moore demonstrates this music’s centrality to postwar France and the convergence of decolonization, the expanding globalized economy, the Cold War, and worldwide liberation movements.

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Raising Her Voice African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History


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English | 2021 | ASIN: B08W2LBM2S | EPUB | pages: 251 | 1.2 mb
Each chapter is a biographical sketch of an influential black woman who has written for American newspapers or television news, including Maria W. Stewart, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Josephine St.Pierre Ruffin, Delilah L. Beasley, Marvel Cooke, Charlotta A. Bass, Alice Allison Dunnigan, Ethel L. Payne, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

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Patton’s Panthers The African-American 761st Tank Battalion In World War II


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English | 2005 | ISBN: 0743485009 | EPUB | pages: 387 | 4.1 mb
On the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist limitations set upon them by others-proving themselves as tough, reliable, and determined to fight as any tank unit in combat.

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Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960


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English | ISBN: 022613881X | 2014 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as much of a Paris phenomenon as it was a Chicago and New York scene.

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Kwame Nkrumah’s Contribution to Pan-African Agency An Afrocentric Analysis


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English | 2003 | ISBN: 0415946433, 1138092665 | EPUB | pages: 204 | 0.3 mb
This study analyzes contributions made by Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) to the development of Pan-African agency from the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester to the military coup d’etat of Nkrumah’s government in February 1966.

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IndiVisible African-Native American Lives in the Americas


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English | 2009 | ISBN: 1588342719 | PDF | pages: 260 | 18.6 mb
Throughout American history, people of combined African and Native American descent have often struggled for acceptance, not only from dominant cultures but also from their own communities. In this collection of twenty-seven groundbreaking essays, authors from across the Americas explore the complex personal histories and contemporary lives of people wth a dual heritage that has rarely received attention as part of the multicultural landscape.

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