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Malcolm X, Bridgewater State University

Malcolm X

Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement

Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, NE. His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family’s eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. In 1929, their Lansing, MI, home was burned to the ground. Two years later, Earl’s body was found lying across the town’s trolley tracks. Louise suffered an emotional breakdown several years after the death of her husband, was institutionalized, and her children were split up amongst various foster homes and orphanages.

Malcolm was a smart, …

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Black Men Who Betray Their Race: 20th Century Literary Representations Of The Black Male Race Traitor, Gregory Coleman University of Massachusetts Amherst

Black Men Who Betray Their Race: 20th Century Literary Representations Of The Black Male Race Traitor, Gregory Coleman

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation, Black Men Who Betray Their Race, gathers a literary archive in order to identify and introduce the “race traitor” as a heretofore unrecognized yet important trope within 20th century African-American Literature. In addition to coping with the burden of racism, African Americans have had to put considerable energy toward negotiating the possibility of being perceived as race traitors by others within the African American community. This study tracks the possibilities and perils of black group identity in literary representations of black men, neither privileging opposition to the white world, nor celebrating black unity beyond it. Focusing …

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Crispus Attucks, Bridgewater State University

Crispus Attucks

Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement

Crispus Attucks, one of the first men to die for American freedom, was a fugitive slave who had escaped from his master and had worked for twenty years as a merchant seaman. When Samuel Adams, prominent leader of the struggle against British domination of the American colonies, called upon the dock workers and seamen in the port of Boston to demonstrate against the British troops guarding the customs commissioners, Crispus Attucks responded to the plea. Aroused by Adams’ exhortations, a group of 40 to 50 patriots, armed with clubs, sticks and snowballs, approached the British soldiers. Attucks was apparently in …

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Opinion Editorial: Why Is It That So Many White People Fear Black Men?, Dmitri C. Westbrook Grand Valley State University

Opinion Editorial: Why Is It That So Many White People Fear Black Men?, Dmitri C. Westbrook

College Student Affairs Leadership

Why is it that so Many White People Fear Black Men?

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Lewis Howard Latimer, Bridgewater State University

Lewis Howard Latimer

Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement

Lewis Latimer was one of the pioneers in the electric light industry from its creation until it became worldwide in its influence. Latimer’s great sense of accomplishment was outstanding, even in his childhood. His self-made background was indeed one of talent, and his many abilities were destined to bring him recognition. Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on September 4, 1848, and reared in Boston. He was the fourth child of George and Rebecca Latimer. His father, a former slave, had fled to Boston from a Norfolk, Virginia plantation during the 1830s to get away from slavery.

George Latimer’s limited …

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The Colonial Roots Of The Racial Fetishization Of Black Women, Caren M. Holmes College of Wooster

The Colonial Roots Of The Racial Fetishization Of Black Women, Caren M. Holmes

Black & Gold

In my research, I examined the history of sexual debasement and abuse of black women throughout American history and its influence of modern racial fetishization. In my paper, I explore the influence of European colonial thought on these modern realities. I argue that the conquest and feminization of the New World led to the dehumanization and conquest of African women who were perceived by colonialists to be byproducts of manifest destiny. My research reflects how the sexual debasement experienced by black women throughout American history has led to the racial fetishization prevalent today. I also consider how this history of …

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Dr. Charles Richard Drew, Bridgewater State University

Dr. Charles Richard Drew

Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement

The man, for whom Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles is named, was a brilliant Black physician, famous for his pioneering work in blood preservation. Born in Washington, D.C. on June 3, 1904, his life ended in an auto accident just two months before his 46th birthday. The intervening years were crowded with achievements, learning and sharing his knowledge to benefit mankind. In 1926 he graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts, where his athletic prowess in track and football earned him the Mossman trophy as the man who contributed most to athletics for four years. …

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Her-Story: Black, Middle-School Girls Exploring Their Intersectional Identities, Crystal Latanya Edwards University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Her-Story: Black, Middle-School Girls Exploring Their Intersectional Identities, Crystal Latanya Edwards

Theses and Dissertations

While intra-racial-group comparisons have lead scholars to argue that Black girls are succeeding academically and therefore require less explicit focus in educational research, there is little literature that focuses on the ways that Black girls’ experiences in formal educational spaces shape their emotional wellbeing and sense of intersectional identity—specifically, from their own perspectives (Paul, 2003; Townsend, Thomas, Neilands, and Jackson, 2010). In recognizing this relative invisibility, my research redirects focus to obstacles that typically go relatively unnoticed and unaddressed. Utilizing focus groups and diary/follow-up interviews as methods, I explore the subjective experience of Black girls within the educational context. Placing …

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Mary Eliza Mahoney, R.N., Bridgewater State University

Mary Eliza Mahoney, R.N.

Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement

At the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Roxbury, Massachusetts, a three-by-five, black, paper-covered memorandum book is kept under lock and key, along with other historical materials dealing with the founding and operation of this institution devoted to the medical and nursing education of women. On page five of this simple little book, the name Mary Mahoney has been inscribed. Thus began the record of the indomitable courage of the ninety pound Negro woman who became the first graduate nurse of her race in America.

Mary Mahoney was born in Boston in 1845; an unverified report gives the …

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Harriet Ann Jacobs, Bridgewater State University

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement

Harriet Ann Jacobs is now known as the author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself (1861), the most important slave narrative by an African-American woman. Jacobs is also important because of the role she played as a relief worker among Black Civil War refugees in Alexandria, Virginia and Savannah, Georgia. Throughout most of the twentieth century, Jacob’s autobiography was thought to be a novel by a white writer, and her relief work was unknown. With the 1987 publication of an annotated edition of her book, however, Jacobs became established as the author of the …

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 9, WKU Student Affairs 2023 Western Kentucky University

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 79, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

  • Hopkins, Shawntaye. Holding Memories – Katie Autry
  • Hopkins, Shawntaye. Caution on Campus – Katie Autry
  • Hopkins, Shawntaye. Tracking the Case – Katie Autry
  • Hoang, Mai. Donors, Staff Reflect on Capital Campaign
  • Brueggemann, Marlene. Winona LaDuke Speaks Out for Environment, Women’s Rights
  • Reed, Lindsey. Faculty Senate Meets Today
  • Reed, Lindsey. Concerns Raised About Students’ Privacy – Student Government Association
  • Different Views Key in College
  • Lamar, Mike. Editorial Cartoon re: Opinions
  • McIntosh, Jeri. If You’re Thinking About a Tattoo. . .
  • Johnson, Leigh. Kentucky Academy Will Be Good – Gatton Academy …

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The Experiences Of Black Women Senior Student Affairs Officers: A Multiple-Case Study, Tamekka L. Cornelius, Donald Mitchell Jr. 2023 Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Professional

The Experiences Of Black Women Senior Student Affairs Officers: A Multiple-Case Study, Tamekka L. Cornelius, Donald Mitchell Jr.

The Qualitative Report

Within this multiple-case study, we explored the experiences of Black women in senior student affairs officer (SSAO) positions at four-year historically white institutions (HWIs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the United States. We used Black feminist thought and representational bureaucracy to theoretically frame the study. Participants included SSAOs representing three HWIs and two HBCUs. Four central themes—often expressed within experiences of marginalization—emerged across the cases: 1) I Have a Right to Be Here; 2) Creating Networks; 3) No Straight Line to the Top; and 4) I’m Thinking about the Black Girls Coming Behind Me. We conclude the …

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Utopian Promises, Dystopic Realities: Teaching Bell Hooks “No Love In The Wild”, NaImah H. Ford 2023 Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Utopian Promises, Dystopic Realities: Teaching Bell Hooks “No Love In The Wild”, Naimah H. Ford

Feminist Pedagogy

This original teaching activity discusses bell hooks’ film review of Beasts of The Southern Wild and explains how it can be used to encourage students to recognize how popular culture reproduces and reinforces disturbing paradigms. This original teaching activity, based on hooks’ review “No Love in The Wild,” encourages students to be informed while navigating visual images in popular culture. This activity also explains how hooks’ film review and the film can be used to empower students with strategies to analyze film and other visual images that are seemingly progressive but support the strictures and structures that reinforce patriarchy, racism, …

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Loving Blackness: A Sense Experience, Ricardo J. Millhouse 2023 University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa

Loving Blackness: A Sense Experience, Ricardo J. Millhouse

Feminist Pedagogy

The late bell hooks framed feminist pedagogies as a set of practices and systems that provide a description of feminism, a feminist learning environment, and ways to cultivate a community that is ready for feminist instruction. Using intersectionality, hooks (1992) discussed “loving blackness” as a representational and destabilizing practice to de-center whiteness. hooks (1992, 20) writes, “loving blackness as a political resistance transforms our ways of looking and being, and thus creates conditions necessary for us to move against the forces of domination and death and reclaim black life.” I propose a black feminist praxis teaching tool, “a sense experience,” …

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Black Feminist Pedagogy In White Southern Spaces, Frances B. Henderson 2023 University of Kentucky

Black Feminist Pedagogy In White Southern Spaces, Frances B. Henderson

Feminist Pedagogy

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks situates the classroom as “the most radical space of opportunity in academia” (hooks 1994,), as it is within this space that we might challenge and transcend ways of knowing centered in patriarchy, sexism and racism. But what happens when the classroom is located in spaces loyal to the historical frameworks that buttress white supremacist heteropatriarchy? This article examines my twelve years of experience in teaching undergraduate courses in political science at a small liberal arts college in the mid-South. At its center are critical reflections on attempts to formulate and employ a black feminist …

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Paths To Equity: Parents In Partnership With Ucedds Fostering Black Family Advocacy For Children On The Autism Spectrum, Elizabeth H. Morgan, Benita D. Shaw, Ida Winters, Chiffon King, Jazmin Burns, Aubyn Stahmer, Gail Chodron 2023 California State University Sacramento and University of California Davis CEDD at the MIND Institute

Paths To Equity: Parents In Partnership With Ucedds Fostering Black Family Advocacy For Children On The Autism Spectrum, Elizabeth H. Morgan, Benita D. Shaw, Ida Winters, Chiffon King, Jazmin Burns, Aubyn Stahmer, Gail Chodron

Developmental Disabilities Network Journal

Racism and ableism have doubly affected Black families of children with developmental disabilities in their interactions with disability systems of supports and services (e.g., early intervention, mental health, education, medical systems). On average, Black autistic children are diagnosed three years later and are up to three times more likely to be misdiagnosed than their non-Hispanic White peers. Qualitative research provides evidence that systemic oppression, often attributed to intersectionality, can cause circumstances where Black disabled youth are doubly marginalized by policy and practice that perpetuates inequality. School discipline policies that criminalize Black students and inadequate medical assessments that improperly support Black …

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Kirkland, Zachariah - Record Of Sale Of Enslaved Persons From The Estate Of Zachariah Kirkland, Deceased, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kirkland, Zachariah - Record Of Sale Of Enslaved Persons From The Estate Of Zachariah Kirkland, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Record of sale of enslaved persons from the estate of Zachariah Kirkland, deceased, for Peter, Amy, Amy's child John, Maria and Eliza.

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Kirkland, Zachariah - Record For Payments On Note For The Sale Of Enslaved Persons From The Estate Of Zacharias Kirkland, Deceased, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kirkland, Zachariah - Record For Payments On Note For The Sale Of Enslaved Persons From The Estate Of Zacharias Kirkland, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

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Record for payments on note for the sale of enslaved persons from the estate of Zacharias Kirkland, deceased, for Peter, Amy, Amy's child John, Maria and Eliza.

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Kirkland, Zachariah- Affirmation Of Amendments To Mortgage Backed By Enslaved Persons, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kirkland, Zachariah- Affirmation Of Amendments To Mortgage Backed By Enslaved Persons, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Affirmation of amendments to mortgage backed by enslaved persons, confirming the addition of two enslaved persons.

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Kirkland, Zachariah - Order For The Inventory And Appraisement Of The Estate Of Zachariah Kirkland, Deceased, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kirkland, Zachariah - Order For The Inventory And Appraisement Of The Estate Of Zachariah Kirkland, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Order for the inventory and appraisement of the estate of Zachariah Kirkland,, deceased, including seven enslaved persons.

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Kirkland, Zachariah - Mortgage, Zachariah Kirkland To Bartlett Lord, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kirkland, Zachariah - Mortgage, Zachariah Kirkland To Bartlett Lord, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Mortgage, Zachariah Kirkland to Bartlett Lord, backed by five enslaved persons: Peter, Amy and child, Mariah and Eliza.

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Kirkland, Zachariah - Esate Of Zachariah Kirkland, Deceased, With Bartlett Ford, Admr., Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kirkland, Zachariah - Esate Of Zachariah Kirkland, Deceased, With Bartlett Ford, Admr., Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Envelope for the probate records of the estate of Zachariah Kirkland

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Kelly, Patrick - Partial Inventory Of The Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kelly, Patrick - Partial Inventory Of The Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Partial inventory of the estate of Patrick Kelly

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Kelly, Patrick- Representation Of The Insolvency Of The Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, By Samuel Postelthwaite, Admr, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kelly, Patrick- Representation Of The Insolvency Of The Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, By Samuel Postelthwaite, Admr, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Explanation of debts owed by the estate of Patrick Kelly, deceased

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Kelly, Patrick - Order For The Appraisement And Inventory Of The Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kelly, Patrick - Order For The Appraisement And Inventory Of The Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Order for the inventory and appriasement of the estate of Patrick Kelly, deceased, inclusing an enslaved woman named Sally.

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Kelly, Patrick - Inventory Of The Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kelly, Patrick - Inventory Of The Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Inventory of the estate of Patrick Kelly, deceased, including an enslaved woman named Sally.

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Kelly, Patrick - Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, With Samuel Postelthwaite, Admr, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kelly, Patrick - Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, With Samuel Postelthwaite, Admr, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Envelope for the probate records of Patrick Kelly, deceased

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Kelly, Patrick - Letter Testamentary, Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Kelly, Patrick - Letter Testamentary, Estate Of Patrick Kelly, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Letter testamentary, estate of Patrick Kelly, deceased, giving Samuel Postelthwaite the ability to administrate the estate of Patrick Kelly, including the emancipation of an enslaved woman named Sally.

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Haughton, John - Estate Administration Record For The Estate Of John Haughton, Deceased, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Haughton, John - Estate Administration Record For The Estate Of John Haughton, Deceased, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Estate administration record for the estate of John Haughton, deceased, involving enslaved persons named Jisy (a man), an unnamed woman, and a man named Daniel.

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Haughton, John - Sales Of Sundries At Auction On Account Of Robert Haughton, Chancery Court of Adams County 2023 Mississippi State University

Haughton, John - Sales Of Sundries At Auction On Account Of Robert Haughton, Chancery Court Of Adams County

Historic Natchez Foundation

Sales of sundries at auction on account of Robert Haughton, including an enslaved man named Jes, owned jointly with the estate of John Haughton

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