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2) America's historically Black colleges & universities: a narrative history from the nineteenth century into the twenty-first century

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Lovett, Bobby L

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America's historically Black colleges and universities

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This narrative provides a comprehensive history of America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The book concludes that race, the Civil Rights movements, and black and white philanthropy had much affect on the development of these minority institutions. Northern white philanthropy had much to do with the start and maintenance of the nations HBCUs from 1837 into the 1940s. Even from 1950 to 1970, HBCUs depended upon financial support...

3) How it came to be: the Boyd family's contribution to African American religious publishing from the 19th to the 21st century

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Lovett, Bobby L

4) A Black man's dream: the first 100 years : Richard Henry Boyd and the National Baptist Publishing Board

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Lovett, Bobby L

5) The African-American history of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: elites and dilemmas

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Lovett, Bobby L

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Black Community Studies

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Book, eBook

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Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks—slave and free—made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough's settlers in 1779. From these early years through the Civil War, a growing black community in Nashville, led by a small group of black elites, quietly built the foundations of a future society, developing schools, churches, and businesses. The Civil War brought new freedoms and challenges

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6) The civil rights movement in Tennessee: a narrative history

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Lovett, Bobby L

7) "A touch of greatness": a history of Tennessee State University

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Lovett, Bobby L

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America's historically Black colleges and universities

8) "Tell them we are singing for Jesus": the original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian reconstruction, 1871-1878

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Anderson, Toni P

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Between 1871 and 1878, the Jubilee Singers presented concerts featuring the Negro spirituals that won the applause and admiration of the Western world. The rise and renown of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers form one of the most celebrated stories of post-Civil War America. Equally fascinating are the varied, multitudinous influences that converged to catapult them onto the world's stage and into the annals of history. "Tell Them We Are Singing for...

9) The souls of Black folk

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Du Bois, W. E. B

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Dover thrift editions

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Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a sociologist, historian, novelist, and activist whose astounding career spanned the nation's history from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Fisk, Harvard, and the University of Berlin, Du Bois penned his epochal masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903. It remains his most studied and popular work;...