The Robert R. Church Family of Memphis
Author | : Pamela Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 1979-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780878700592 |
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Author | : Pamela Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 1979-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780878700592 |
Author | : Pamela Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780878700608 |
Author | : Darius J. Young |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2022-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813072425 |
Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc., C. Calvin Smith Book Award This volume highlights the little-known story of Robert R. Church Jr., the most prominent black Republican of the 1920s and 1930s. Tracing Church’s lifelong crusade to make race an important part of the national political conversation, Darius Young reveals how Church was critical to the formative years of the civil rights struggle. A member of the black elite in Memphis, Tennessee, Church was a banker, political mobilizer, and civil rights advocate who worked to create opportunities for the black community despite the notorious Democrat E. H. “Boss” Crump’s hold over Memphis politics. Spurred by the belief that the vote was the most pragmatic path to full citizenship in the United States, Church founded the Lincoln League of America, which advocated for the interests of black voters in over thirty states. He was instrumental in establishing the NAACP throughout the South as it investigated various incidents of racial violence in the Mississippi Delta. At the height of his influence, Church served as an advisor for Presidents Harding and Coolidge, generating greater participation of and recognition for African Americans in the Republican Party. Church’s life and career offer a window into the incremental, behind-the-scenes victories of black voters and leaders during the Jim Crow era that set the foundation for the more nationally visible civil rights movement to follow. Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Author | : Pamela Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1979-06 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780878700592 |
Author | : Charles Wann Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : African American families |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Wann Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : African American families |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Wann Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Wann Crawford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : African American families |
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Author | : Elizabeth Gritter |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2014-02-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813144744 |
One of the largest southern cities and a hub for the cotton industry, Memphis, Tennessee, was at the forefront of black political empowerment during the Jim Crow era. Compared to other cities in the South, Memphis had an unusually large number of African American voters. Black Memphians sought reform at the ballot box, formed clubs, ran for office, and engaged in voter registration and education activities from the end of the Civil War through the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. In this groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Gritter examines how and why black Memphians mobilized politically in the period between Reconstruction and the beginning of the civil rights movement. Gritter illuminates, in particular, the efforts and influence of Robert R. Church Jr., an affluent Republican and founder of the Lincoln League, and the notorious Memphis political boss Edward H. Crump. Using these two men as lenses through which to view African American political engagement, this volume explores how black voters and their leaders both worked with and opposed the white political machine at the ballot box. River of Hope challenges persisting notions of a "Solid South" of white Democratic control by arguing that the small but significant number of black southerners who retained the right to vote had more influence than scholars have heretofore assumed. Gritter's nuanced study presents a fascinating view of the complex nature of political power during the Jim Crow era and provides fresh insight into the efforts of the individuals who laid the foundation for civil rights victories in the 1950s and '60s.
Author | : Sarah Wilkerson Freeman |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820339016 |
Including suffragists, civil rights activists, and movers and shakers in politics and in the music industries of Nashville and Memphis, as well as many other notables, this collective portrait of Tennessee women offers new perspectives and insights into their dreams, their struggles, and their times. As rich, diverse, and wide-ranging as the topography of the state, this book will interest scholars, general readers, and students of southern history, women's history, and Tennessee history. Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times shifts the historical lens from the more traditional view of men's roles to place women and their experiences at center stage in the historical drama. The eighteen biographical essays, written by leading historians of women, illuminate the lives of familiar figures like reformer Frances Wright, blueswoman Alberta Hunter, and the Grand Ole Opry's Minnie Pearl (Sarah Colley Cannon) and less-well-known characters like the Cherokee Beloved Woman Nan-ye-hi (Nancy Ward), antebellum free black woman Milly Swan Price, and environmentalist Doris Bradshaw. Told against the backdrop of their times, these are the life stories of women who shaped Tennessee's history from the eighteenth-century challenges of western expansion through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century struggles against racial and gender oppression to the twenty-first-century battles with community degradation. Taken as a whole, this collection of women's stories illuminates previously unrevealed historical dimensions that give readers a greater understanding of Tennessee's place within environmental and human rights movements and its role as a generator of phenomenal cultural life.