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Cynthia Taylor

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"Big History: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Course" For A Panel On The Topic: The Interdisciplinary Means Of Approaching Careers In Microbiology, Cynthia Taylor May 2015

"Big History: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Course" For A Panel On The Topic: The Interdisciplinary Means Of Approaching Careers In Microbiology, Cynthia Taylor

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Keeping His Faith: A. Philip Randolph And Working-Class Religion, Cynthia Taylor Jan 2015

Keeping His Faith: A. Philip Randolph And Working-Class Religion, Cynthia Taylor

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At one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president of the all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodiment of America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for Black America, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation for nearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, the assaults waged against organized labor in the 1980s, and the overall silencing of labor history in U.S. popular discourse, he has been largely forgotten among large segments of the general public before whom he once loomed …

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Teaching Threshold 6: The Rise Of Homo Sapiens, Richard Simon, Mojgan Behmand, Thomas Burke, Esther Quaedackers, Seohyung Kim, Kiowa Bower, Neal Wolfe, James Cunningham, Cynthia Taylor, Martin Anderson, J. May, Philip Novak, Debbie Daunt, Jaime Castner, Ethan Annis, Amy Gilbert, Anne Reid, Suzanne Roybal, Alan Schut, Cynthia Brown, Harlan Stelmach Dec 2014

Teaching Threshold 6: The Rise Of Homo Sapiens, Richard Simon, Mojgan Behmand, Thomas Burke, Esther Quaedackers, Seohyung Kim, Kiowa Bower, Neal Wolfe, James Cunningham, Cynthia Taylor, Martin Anderson, J. May, Philip Novak, Debbie Daunt, Jaime Castner, Ethan Annis, Amy Gilbert, Anne Reid, Suzanne Roybal, Alan Schut, Cynthia Brown, Harlan Stelmach

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Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby reconciling traditional human history with environmental geography and natural history.Weaving the myriad threads of evidence-based human knowledge into a master narrative that stretches from the beginning of the universe to the present, the Big History framework helps students make sense of their studies in all disciplines by illuminating the structures that underlie the universe and the connections among them.Teaching Big History is …

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The Men Behind The March: Randolph And Rustin Together Again, Cynthia Taylor Aug 2013

The Men Behind The March: Randolph And Rustin Together Again, Cynthia Taylor

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Through the media attention on this anniversary, it has been gratifying to once again see the cover of Life magazine (September 6, 1963) with Randolph and Rustin standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial. At the time of the March, most Americans had viewed these two men as the real stars of the occasion. The 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom was actually the realization of their long-time “dream” to have a dramatic and peaceful demonstration that emphasized the need of all black Americans for economic opportunities and jobs, as well as the more elusive ideal of freedom.

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Presentations On Teaching Big History, Cynthia Taylor May 2013

Presentations On Teaching Big History, Cynthia Taylor

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Review Of Death Blow To Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress And The Rise Of Militant Civil Rights By Erik S. Gellman, Cynthia Taylor Nov 2012

Review Of Death Blow To Jim Crow: The National Negro Congress And The Rise Of Militant Civil Rights By Erik S. Gellman, Cynthia Taylor

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Teaching “Threshold Six” And The Paleolithic Era To First Year Students, Cynthia Taylor Aug 2012

Teaching “Threshold Six” And The Paleolithic Era To First Year Students, Cynthia Taylor

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A. Philip Randolph And The Struggle For Civil Rights By Cornelius L. Bynum, Cynthia Taylor Mar 2012

A. Philip Randolph And The Struggle For Civil Rights By Cornelius L. Bynum, Cynthia Taylor

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A review of the book "A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights," part of The New Black Studies Series, by Cornelius L. Bynum is presented.

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California History: Expanding The Narrative Of The First Californians, Cynthia Taylor Sep 2011

California History: Expanding The Narrative Of The First Californians, Cynthia Taylor

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Panellist Roundtable Discussion On A. Philip Randolph, Cynthia Taylor Oct 2010

Panellist Roundtable Discussion On A. Philip Randolph, Cynthia Taylor

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Review Of Women In The Church Of God In Christ: Making A Sanctified World By Anthea D. Butler, Cynthia Taylor May 2008

Review Of Women In The Church Of God In Christ: Making A Sanctified World By Anthea D. Butler, Cynthia Taylor

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The article reviews the book "Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World," by Anthea D. Butler.

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Review Of A. Philip Randolph: A Life In The Vanguard By Andrew E. Kersten, Cynthia Taylor Mar 2008

Review Of A. Philip Randolph: A Life In The Vanguard By Andrew E. Kersten, Cynthia Taylor

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Review Of From Civil Rights To Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Struggle For Economic Justice By Thomas F. Jackson, Cynthia Taylor Mar 2008

Review Of From Civil Rights To Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. And The Struggle For Economic Justice By Thomas F. Jackson, Cynthia Taylor

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"Thomas F. Jackson presents a secular view of an American religious icon. Jackson wants his readers to recall what contemporaries and other movement leaders never forgot: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s radicalism. In so doing, Jackson portrays the civil rights leader as a politically astute activist, a perspective often downplayed or forgotten in other biographies and studies that concentrate primarily on King as a religious figure with an emphasis on his orthodox religious beliefs and activities. This book challenged my stereotype of King as a political neophyte, totally dependent on the advice and guidance of older, more seasoned black political …

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Recent Developments In American Religious History, Cynthia Taylor Sep 2007

Recent Developments In American Religious History, Cynthia Taylor

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How Did The March On Washington Movement's Critique Of American Democracy In The 1940s Awaken African American Women To The Problem Of Jane Crow?, Cynthia Taylor Dec 2006

How Did The March On Washington Movement's Critique Of American Democracy In The 1940s Awaken African American Women To The Problem Of Jane Crow?, Cynthia Taylor

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This document project demonstrates the critical role women played in the 1940s March on Washington Movement (MOWM) during its formative period. African American women activists of the 1940s enthusiastically joined the MOWM because it promoted broad race-based employment goals. Although women found a welcoming place within the MOWM to fight Jim Crow, there was little room at this time for women to articulate their concerns about Jane Crow within the movement or society at large. Various factors kept female march activists from more fully developing an articulate feminist ideology in the 1940s: the effective and charismatic leadership of A. Philip …

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The Role Of African American Churches In U.S. Political History, Cynthia Taylor Jul 2006

The Role Of African American Churches In U.S. Political History, Cynthia Taylor

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A. Philip Randolph And Religion, Cynthia Taylor May 2006

A. Philip Randolph And Religion, Cynthia Taylor

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A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey Of An African American Labor Leader, Cynthia Taylor Nov 2005

A. Philip Randolph: The Religious Journey Of An African American Labor Leader, Cynthia Taylor

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A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was one of the most effective black trade unionists in America. Once known as "the most dangerous black man in America," he was a radical journalist, a labor leader, and a pioneer of civil rights strategies. His protegé Bayard Rustin noted that, "With the exception of W.E.B. Du Bois, he was probably the greatest civil rights leader of the twentieth century until Martin Luther King." Scholarship has traditionally portrayed Randolph as an atheist and anti-religious, his connections to African American religion either ignored or misrepresented. Taylor places Randolph within …

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A. Philip Randolph: Black Christian Humanist, Cynthia Taylor Oct 2003

A. Philip Randolph: Black Christian Humanist, Cynthia Taylor

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A. Philip Randolph, Black Churches, And Women Activists In The 1940s March On Washington Movement, Cynthia Taylor May 2003

A. Philip Randolph, Black Churches, And Women Activists In The 1940s March On Washington Movement, Cynthia Taylor

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Revisiting The De-Radicalization Thesis: An Update On Gayraud S. Wilmore’S Black Religion And Black Radicalism, Cynthia Taylor Mar 2003

Revisiting The De-Radicalization Thesis: An Update On Gayraud S. Wilmore’S Black Religion And Black Radicalism, Cynthia Taylor

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Albert B. Cleage, Jr., Cynthia Taylor Feb 2000

Albert B. Cleage, Jr., Cynthia Taylor

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Martin (history, Univ. of California) and Sullivan (W.E.B. DuBois Inst., Harvard) have compiled a massive encyclopedia featuring 730 entries on civil rights in America. Among the 332 contributors are such major scholars as Gerald Early, Frances Fox Pliven, Robin Kelley, and Kermit Hall, as well as a number of less well-known students of this topic. The editors have conceived their project broadly by transcending the traditional focus on African Americans. ~ Library Journal

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James Reeb, Cynthia Taylor Dec 1999

James Reeb, Cynthia Taylor

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Martin (history, Univ. of California) and Sullivan (W.E.B. DuBois Inst., Harvard) have compiled a massive encyclopedia featuring 730 entries on civil rights in America. Among the 332 contributors are such major scholars as Gerald Early, Frances Fox Pliven, Robin Kelley, and Kermit Hall, as well as a number of less well-known students of this topic. The editors have conceived their project broadly by transcending the traditional focus on African Americans. ~ Library Journal

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Battling The Color Line In The Era Of Segregation, 1896 - 1954, Cynthia Taylor Oct 1995

Battling The Color Line In The Era Of Segregation, 1896 - 1954, Cynthia Taylor

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