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Grounded History: A Keynote Address To The 14th Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, Amilcar Shabazz May 2008

Grounded History: A Keynote Address To The 14th Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

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One For The Crows, One For The Crackers: The Strange Career Of Public Higher Education In Houston, Texas, Amilcar Shabazz Jan 1998

One For The Crows, One For The Crackers: The Strange Career Of Public Higher Education In Houston, Texas, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

The dynamics of how the dual system of higher education in Jim Crow America emerged and operated is explored in this article in the context of the largest city in the 20th century U.S. South: Houston, Texas. The history herein moves from a pragmatic response to a deep need for postsecondary educational opportunity in the 1920s to a major expansion in the 1940s in the face of the lawsuit of Heman Sweatt to the 1960s after state-mandated segregation is officially ended.


Review Of Soulfires: Young Black Men On Love And Violence, Amilcar Shabazz Dec 1996

Review Of Soulfires: Young Black Men On Love And Violence, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

A review of a literary and cultural anthology on African American males on love and violence.


The Forty Acres Documents: An Introduction, Amilcar Shabazz Dec 1993

The Forty Acres Documents: An Introduction, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

The Forty Acres Documents: What Did the United States Really Promise the People Freed from Slavery? Wrote introduction and co-edited with Imari and Johnita Scott Obadele. * A revised and expanded edition is in the works *


Dope Is Death, Amilcar Shabazz Dec 1986

Dope Is Death, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

"Dope is Death" started as a study document for revolutionary nationalist cadres in the 1980s at the height of the Crack Wars and Reaganomics. It was later published in the September/October 1987 issue of "By Any Means Necessary!" newspaper published by the New Afrikan People's Organization. The version seen here is the 1988 pamphlet edition.


Statement By New Afrikan Prisoner Of War Kuwasi Balagoon, Amilcar Shabazz Jul 1983

Statement By New Afrikan Prisoner Of War Kuwasi Balagoon, Amilcar Shabazz

Amilcar Shabazz

As a member of Kuwasi Balagoon's political defense collective, called the National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters, I transcribed this statement that he attempted to present in court at his trial in Goshen, NY, that opened July 11, 1983. Orange County Judge David Ritter denied him from giving the full statement that is presented here from the pamphlet that was published for Black August 1983, with the brief introduction that I wrote.