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79 relations: African Americans, Amanda America Dickson, American Civil War, Barbara Clare Foley, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Cane (novel), Carl Jung, Chatham County, North Carolina, Cherokee, Chicago race riot of 1919, Church of Scientology, City College of New York, Claude McKay, Deep South, Democratic Party (United States), Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.), Edgar Cayce, Ethnic conflict, Fontainebleau, Free people of color, Freedman, George Gurdjieff, Georgia (U.S. state), Great Migration (African American), Hancock County, Georgia, Harlem Renaissance, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Horace Liveright, Industrial school, Jim Crow laws, Langston Hughes, List of African-American writers, List of ethnic groups of Africa, Literary modernism, Literature of Georgia (U.S. state), Louisiana, Lynching, Margery Latimer, Marjorie Content, Miscegenation, Nella Larsen, New Orleans, New Rochelle, New York, New York Call, New York University, NPR, Our America, P. B. S. Pinchback, ..., Passing (racial identity), Peon, Quakers, Racial segregation, Reconstruction era, Red Summer, Republican Party (United States), Richard Wright (author), Sherwood Anderson, Socialism, Sparta, Georgia, T. S. Eliot, The Liberator (magazine), The Waste Land, Time (magazine), Union Army, United States Congress, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Waldo Frank, Wallace Thurman, Washington, D.C., White supremacy, Whiting Williams, Winesburg, Ohio, World War I, Yale University. Expand index (29 more) »
African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Amanda America Dickson
Amanda America Dickson (November 20, 1849 – June 11, 1893) was a mulatto socialite in Georgia.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Barbara Clare Foley
Barbara Foley (born 1948), Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark, focuses her research and teaching on U.S. literary radicalism, African American literature, and Marxist criticism.
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Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Cane (novel)
Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer.
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Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
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Chatham County, North Carolina
Chatham County, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Cherokee
The Cherokee (translit or translit) are one of the indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.
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Chicago race riot of 1919
The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois, on July 27, 1919, and ended on August 3.
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Church of Scientology
The Church of Scientology is a multinational network and hierarchy of numerous ostensibly independent but interconnected corporate entities and other organizations devoted to the practice, administration and dissemination of Scientology, a new religious movement.
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City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (more commonly referred to as the City College of New York, or simply City College, CCNY, or City) is a public senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City.
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Claude McKay
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay (September 15, 1889 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Deep South
The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era
Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era in the United States of America was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Doylestown is a borough and the county seat of Bucks County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
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Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School is a public secondary school located in Washington, D.C., United States. The school is located in the Truxton Circle neighborhood of Northwest Washington, two blocks from the intersection of New Jersey and New York avenues. Dunbar, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the District of Columbia Public Schools. From the early 20th century to the 1950s, Dunbar became known as the classical academic high school for black students in the segregated public schools. As all public school teachers were federal civil servants, its teachers received pay equal to that of white teachers in other schools in the district. It attracted high-quality faculty, many with advanced degrees, including doctorates. Parents sent their children to the high school from across the city because of its high standards. Many of its alumni graduated from top-quality colleges and universities, and gained professional degrees.
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Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 – January 3, 1945) was an American clairvoyant who answered questions on subjects as varied as healing, reincarnation, wars, Atlantis, and future events while claiming to be in a trance.
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Ethnic conflict
An ethnic conflict is a conflict between two or more contending ethnic groups.
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Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France.
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Free people of color
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres, Spanish: gente libre de color) were people of mixed African and European descent who were not enslaved.
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Freedman
A freedman or freedwoman is a former slave who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means.
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George Gurdjieff
George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (31 March 1866/ 14 January 1872/ 28 November 1877 – 29 October 1949) commonly known as G. I. Gurdjieff, was a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Alexandrapol (now Gyumri), Armenia.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Great Migration (African American)
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
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Hancock County, Georgia
Hancock County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
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Horace Liveright
Horace Brisbin Liveright (10 December 1883 – 24 September 1933) was an American publisher and stage producer.
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Industrial school
In England, the 1857 Industrial Schools Act was intended to solve problems of juvenile vagrancy, by removing poor and neglected children from their home environment to a boarding school.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
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List of African-American writers
This is a list of African-American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Wikipedia articles.
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List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each population generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.
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Literary modernism
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction.
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Literature of Georgia (U.S. state)
The literature of Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
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Louisiana
Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Lynching
Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group.
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Margery Latimer
Margery Bodine Latimer (February 6, 1899 – August 16, 1932), born in Portage, Wisconsin, was an American writer, feminist theorist, and social activist.
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Marjorie Content
Marjorie Content (1895–1984) was an American photographer from New York City active in modernist social and artistic circles.
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Miscegenation
Miscegenation (from the Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, or procreation.
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Nella Larsen
Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen, born Nellie Walker (April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964), was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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New Rochelle, New York
New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.
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New York Call
The New York Call was a socialist daily newspaper published in New York City from 1908 through 1923.
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New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Our America
Our America is an award-winning IMDb, retrieved 2008-07-10 film based on the book Our America: Life And Death on the South Side of Chicago.
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P. B. S. Pinchback
Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (born Pinckney Benton Stewart May 10, 1837 – December 21, 1921) was an American publisher and politician, a Union Army officer, and the first African American to become governor of a U.S. state.
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Passing (racial identity)
Racial passing occurs when a person classified as a member of one racial group is also accepted as a member of a different racial group.
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Peon
Peon (English, from the Spanish peón) usually refers to a person subject to peonage: any form of unfree labour or wage labor in which a laborer (peon) has little control over employment conditions.
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Quakers
Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.
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Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
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Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.
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Red Summer
The Red Summer refers to the summer and early autumn of 1919, which was marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States, as a result of racial riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works.
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Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.
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Sparta, Georgia
Sparta is a city in Hancock County, Georgia, United States.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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The Liberator (magazine)
The Liberator was a monthly socialist magazine established by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman in 1918 to continue the work of The Masses, which was shut down by the wartime mailing regulations of the U.S. government.
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The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Union Army
During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (also known as University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, or regionally as UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.
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Waldo Frank
Waldo David Frank (1889-1967) was an American novelist, historian, political activist, and literary critic, who wrote extensively for The New Yorker and The New Republic during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Wallace Thurman
Wallace Henry Thurman (August 16, 1902 - December 22, 1934) was an American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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White supremacy
White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore white people should be dominant over other races.
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Whiting Williams
Whiting Williams (March 11, 1878 - April 14, 1975) was co-founder of the Welfare Federation of Cleveland, a predecessor to the Community Chest and United Way charitable organizations, as well as an author of popular books and articles about labor relations during the early 20th century.
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Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio (full title: Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life) is a 1919 short story cycle by the American author Sherwood Anderson.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Yale University
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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References
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