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Armstrong, Louis; Ball, James Presley; Bates, Daisy; Batiste, Alvin; Blair, Henry C.; Bolin, Jane; Carmichael, Stokley; Chaney, James; Cheaham, Henry Plummer; Cochran Jr., Johhnie L.; Davenport, Willie; Dickerson, Eric; Evans, James Carmichael; Forman, James; Harris, Franco; Hawkins, Connie; Iverson, Allen; Lawrence Jr., Robert H.; Mays, Benjamin E.; Nixon, E.D.; Peete, Rodney; Sanders, Barry; Toomer, Jean; Walters, Alexander; And Yerby, Frank G., Howard Bromberg
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Contributions by Howard J. Bromberg to Great Lives from History: African Americans, a collection of short biographical essays.
'Stubborn And Disposed To Stand Their Ground': Sugar Workers And The Dynamics Of Collective Action In The Louisiana Sugar Bowl, 1863-87, Rebecca J. Scott
'Stubborn And Disposed To Stand Their Ground': Sugar Workers And The Dynamics Of Collective Action In The Louisiana Sugar Bowl, 1863-87, Rebecca J. Scott
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There are several ways to fit these events into narratives of southern history in this period. The presence of black and white Knights of Labor organizers encourages one to view the strike as an unusually bold instance of the cautious policy of cross-racial alliance followed by the Knights in this period. The failure of the strike, and the inability of the Knights to protect their members from repression, might be seen to illuminate the limits of that policy. Alternatively, one can situate this conflict in the story of modernization and consolidation of industry, a Sugar Bowl variant on the Gilded …
The Provincial Archive As A Place Of Memory: Confronting Oral And Written Sources On The Role Of Former Slaves In The Cuban War Of Independence (1895-98), Rebecca J. Scott
The Provincial Archive As A Place Of Memory: Confronting Oral And Written Sources On The Role Of Former Slaves In The Cuban War Of Independence (1895-98), Rebecca J. Scott
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Few questions of historical interpretation are more passionately debated than those that have become intertwined with a national narrative and with the definition of how a country came to be what it is imagined to be. For the island nation of Cuba, political independence was forged in a lengthy series of wars against Spanish colonial rule, ending in a direct encounter with U.S. expansionism. Those wars began in 1868 and concluded in 1898 with the departure of Spanish troops, followed by a military occupation of the island by U.S. forces. In 1902 the arst Cuban republic emerged, but it was …