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Presidential Slaves: The Story Of Black People In The Lives Of Antebellum U.S. Presidents, Nika Davis
Presidential Slaves: The Story Of Black People In The Lives Of Antebellum U.S. Presidents, Nika Davis
History Dissertations
The historical narrative about American slavery included many topics such as the African slave trade, the Middle Passage, slave culture, rebellions, religion, and abolition. This study revealed more information to be examined in the record of American slavery relating to the presidents of the United States and their enslaved laborers. This oversight proved prevalent during the years leading to the American Civil War from 1820-1860. Therefore, this dissertation focused upon the enslaved and free Black people who intersected with the presidents and their friends, political acquaintances, and family. By studying their lives, this dissertation revealed that the slaves associated with …
Carolyn Parker's Electronic Frequencies, Charnell Chasten Long
Carolyn Parker's Electronic Frequencies, Charnell Chasten Long
Faculty Publications
The chapter illustrates what it meant for Carolyn Beatrice Parker (1917–1966) to be a Black woman physicist in the US during the Jim Crow era. Her father, a physician, and her mother, a teacher, shepherded her into Fisk University, an historically Black college. As a physics major she studied infrared spectroscopy with the Black physicist Elmer Imes, graduating with a BS in 1938. She later attended the University of Michigan, obtaining an MA in physics in 1941. But like many Black women, she spent time before and after graduate school teaching in the K–12 system. In 1943, she became a …