"PROVIDING FOR THE FUTURE": THE WORLD OF
                                          THE AFRICAN AMERICAN DEPOSITORS OF
                                          WASHINGTON, DC'S FREEDMEN'S SAVINGS BANK,
                                          1865-1874
                                          by Barbara P. Josiah                                                        Page 1


"SUPPORTING OUR FRIENDS AND DEFEATING OUR ENEMIES": MILITANCY AND
NON-PARTISANSHIP IN THE NAACP, 1936-1948
by Simon Topping                                                                                                                 Page 17


GOD, GANDHI, AND GUNS: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN
TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA, 1964-1965
by Simon Wendt                                                                                                                    Page 36


SOUL CITY, NORTH CAROLINA: BLACK POWER, UTOPIA, AND THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN DREAM
by Christopher Strain                                                                                                                                        Page 57


ESSAY REVIEW


CORNEL WEST ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
by Floyd W. Hayes III                                                                                                                                      Page 75


BOOK REVIEWS


Barbara Ransby, ELLA BAKER AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT:
A RADICAL DEMOCRATIC VISION
by Gayle T. Tate                                                                                                                                                Page 80



Sheila S. Walker, ed., AFRICAN ROOTS/AMERICAN CULTURES: AFRICA IN THE
CREATION OF THE AMERICAS
by Benjamin A. Cowan                                                                                                                                     Page 82



Stanley Harrold, SUBVERSIVES: ANTISLAVERY COMMUNITY IN WASHINGTON,
D.C., 1828-1865
by David Taft Terry                                                                                                                                        Page 85



Joanne-Megna-Wallace, UNDERSTANDING I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS:
A STUDENT CASEBOOK
by Loretta G. Woodard                                                                                                                                     Page 87


Sasha Torres,BLACK, WHITE, AND IN COLOR: TELEVISION AND BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS
by Richard M. Breaux                                                                                                                                        Page 89



ANNOUNCEMENTS
CARTER G. WOODSON DISINGUISHED LECTURERS, 2003-2004                                                        Page 92






INTRODUCTION:

AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
by Linda Serece Williams                                                                                                                                Page 93



CAPITAL OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN-WEST INDIAN
HARLEM NEXUS AND THE TRANSNATIONAL DRIVE FOR BLACK FREEDOM, 1940-1948
by Jason Parker                                                                                                                                            Page 98



POLICE-BLACK COMMUNITY RELATIONS IN POSTWAR PHILDELPHIA:
RACE AND CRIMINALIZATION IN URBAN SOCIAL SPACES, 1945-1960
by Karl E. Johnson                                                                                                                                        Page 118



THE "NOT-BUYING POWER" OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY: URBAN BOYCOTTS
AND EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY, 1960-1964
by Stacy Kinlock Sewell                                                                                                                                Page 135



LATASHA HARLINS, SOON JA DU, AND JOYCE KARLIN: A CASE STUDY
OF MULTICULTURAL FEMALE VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE ON THE URBAN FRONTIER
by Brenda E. Stevenson                                                                                                                                Page 142



SPECIAL REPORT

RECOGNIZING VALUE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE OBJECTS
by Elvin Montgomery                                                                                                                                   Page 177



BOOK REVIEWS

Gayle T. Tate, UNKNOWN TONGUES: BLACK WOMEN’S POLITICAL
ACTIVISM IN THE ANTEBELLUM ERA, 1820-1860
by Rhett Jones                                                                                                                                                Page 183



Marvin McAllister, “WHITE PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE AT
ENTERTAINMENTS FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF COLOUR”: WILLIAM
BROWN’S AFRICAN AND AMERICAN THEATER
by Nikki Taylor                                                                                                                                                Page 185


Jacqueline Glass Campbell, WHEN SHERMAN MARCHED NORTH FROM THE SEA:
RESISTANCE ON THE CONFEDERATE HOME FRONT
by Michael E. Long                                                                                                                                        Page 187



Arnoldo DeLeon, RACIAL FRONTIERS: AFRICANS, CHINESE, AND MEXICANS
IN WESTERN AMERICA, 1848-1890
by Albert S. Broussard                                                                                                                                  Page 189


Robert C. Hayden, MR. HARLEM HOSPITAL: DR. LOUIS T. WRIGHT
by Frederick Newsome                                                                                                                                Page 191


Carroll Parrott Blue, THE DAWN AT MY BACK: MEMOIR OF A BLACK TEXAS UPBRINGING
by Stephanie Wright                                                                                                                                      Page 193


Joy Ann Williamson, BLACK POWER ON CAMPUS: THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, 1965-1975
by Michael Fultz                                                                                                                                            Page 195


Maurice O. Wallace, CONSTRUCTING THE BLACK MASCULINE: IDENTITY AND
IDEALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN'S LITERATURE AND CULTURE, 1775-1995
by Zachery Williams                                                                                                                                        Page 196


ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                                                                                  Page 199






INTRODUCTION:
NEW DIRECTIONS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY
by Francille Rusan Wilson                                                                                                                                Page 199



THINKING LOCALLY, ACTING GLOBALLY: THE INTERNATIONAL
AGENDA OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUBWOMEN, 1888-1940
by Michelle Rief                                                                                                                                                Page 203


A GENERATION OF WOMEN ACTIVISTS: AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE
EDUCATORS IN HARLEM, 1930-1950
by Lauri Johnson                                                                                                                                                Page 223



BLACK WOMEN HISTORIANS FROM THE LATE 19TH CENTURY TO THE
DAWN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
by Pero Gaglo Dagbovie                                                                                                                                  Page 241


ESSAY REVIEW I: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND BLACK POWER
by June O. Patton                                                                                                                                             Page 262


ESSAY REVIEW II: BLACK AND WHITE WOMEN HISTORIANS TOGETHER?
by Francille Rusan Wilson                                                                                                                                Page 266


BOOK REVIEWS


Lynn M. Hudson, THE MAKING OF “MAMMY PLEASANT”: A BLACK
ENTREPRENEUR IN NINETEENTH CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO
by Kenneth W. Goings                                                                                                                                Page 270



Rayvon Fouché, BLACK INVENTORS IN THE AGE OF SEGREGATION:
GRANVILLE T. WOODS, LEWIS H. LATIMER, AND SHELBY DAVIDSON
by Robert C. Hayden                                                                                                                                  Page 271


Frank N. Schubert, ed., VOICES OF THE BUFFALO SOLDIER: RECORDS,
REPORTS, AND RECOLLECTIONS OF MILITARY LIFE AND SERVICE IN THE WEST
by Sandra E. Bowen                                                                                                                                      Page 273


Michael E. Lomax, BLACK BASEBALL ENTREPRENEURS, 1860-1901: OPERATING
BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY
by David Spivey                                                                                                                                           Page 275



Matthias Reiss, “DIE SCHWARZEN WAREN UNSERE FREUNDE”:
DEUTSCHE KRIEGSGEFANGENE IN DER AMERIKANISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT, 1942-1946
by Leroy Hopkins, Jr.                                                                                                                                    Seite 277



Carol Anderson, EYES OFF THE PRIZE: THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE
AFRICAN AMERICAN STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, 1944-1955
by Kwame Dixon                                                                                                                                        Page 278


Kate A. Baldwin, BEYOND THE COLOR LINE AND THE IRON CURTAIN:
READING ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN BLACK AND RED, 1932-1963
by Brenda Gayle Plummer                                                                                                                             Page 280


Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, AMERICAN CONGO: THE AFRICAN AMERICAN
FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN THE DELTA
by Andrew M. Kaye                                                                                                                                        Page 282



James H. Madison, A LYNCHING IN THE HEARTLAND: RACE AND MEMORY IN AMERICA
by Gregory Mixon                                                                                                                                                Page 283



John H. Scott with Cleo Scott Brown, WITNESS TO THE TRUTH: MY STRUGGLE
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN LOUISIANA
by Clyde Robertson                                                                                                                                         Page 285



Bruce R. Hare, ed., 2001 RACE ODYSSEY: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SOCIOLOGY
by Ben Frymer                                                                                                                                                Page 287



Linda Williams, PLAYING THE RACE CARD: MELODRAMAS OF BLACK AND
WHITE FROM UNCLE TOM TO O.J. SIMPSON
by Benjamin Justesen                                                                                                                                        Page 289


ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                                                                                  Page 291







THE MARKETING OF DUKE ELLINGTON: SETTING THE STRATEGY
FOR AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAESTRO
by Harvey G. Cohen                                                                                                                                        Page 291



PINKSTER IN CHICAGO: BUD BILLIKEN AND THE MAYOR OF BRONZEVILLE, 1930-1945
by Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott                                                                                                        Page 316



THE NURTURANCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC TALENT
by Beatrice L. Bridglall and Edmund W. Gordon                                                                                            Page 331




SPECIAL REPORT


ACTUARIAL ISSUES IN INSURANCE ON SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES SOUTH
by Cheryl Rhan-Hsin Chen and Gary Simon                                                                                                     Page 348


INTERVIEW

AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE NAVY DURING THE CIVIL WAR
by Helen Hannon                                                                                                                                        Page 358



BOOK REVIEWS

Joanna Brooks, AMERICAN LAZARUS: RELIGION AND THE RISE OF
AFRICAN AMERICAN AND NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURES
by Lamont DeHaven King                                                                                                                        Page 362



Jacqueline Bacon, “THE HUMBLEST MAY STAND FORTH”: RHETORIC,
EMPOWERMENT, AND ABOLITION
by Eric Gardner                                                                                                                                           Page 364



Stanley Harrold, THE RISE OF AGGRESSIVE ABOLITIONISM: ADDRESSES TO THE SLAVES
by Jacqueline Bacon                                                                                                                                     Page 365




Dylan C. Penningroth, THE CLAIMS OF KINFOLK: AFRICAN AMERICAN
PROPOERTY AND COMMUNITY IN THE NINETEENTHCENTURY SOUTH
by Larry E. Hudson Jr.                                                                                                                                Page 367


Bonnie Stepenoff, THAD SNOW: A LIFE OF SOCIAL REFORM IN THE MISSOURI BOOTHEEL
by Debra F. Greene                                                                                                                                        Page 369


Dianne Johnson, editor, THE COLLECTED WORKS OF LANGSTON HUGHES:
WORKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS
by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper                                                                                                                Page 371


Tatcho Mindiola, Jr., Yolanda Flores Niemann, and Nestor Rodriquez, BLACK-BROWN:
RELATIONS AND STEREOTYPES
by Zebulon V. Miletsky                                                                                                                                Page 372



Richard E. Harris, THE AMERICAN ODYSSEY OF A BLACK JOURNALIST, 1933-2003
by Geta LeSeur                                                                                                                                                Page 374


Jerald E. Podair, THE STRIKE THAT CHANGED NEW YORK: BLACKS,
WHITES, AND THE OCEAN HILL-BROWNSVILLE CRISIS
by Clarence Taylor                                                                                                                                        Page 376


Katherine Tate, BLACK FACES IN THE MIRROR: AFRICAN AMERICANS
AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE U.S. CONGRESS
by Louis Randolph                                                                                                                                        Page 378



BOOKS RECEIVED                                                                                                                                Page 381


ANNOUNCEMENTS                                                                                                                                Page 386

INDEX TO VOLUME 89                                                                                                                        Page 396
The Journal of African
American History
Volume 89, 2004
Index
Number 1                                              Winter 2004
Number 2                                                                                         Spring 2004
Special Issue:
"African Americans and the Urban Landscape"
Number 4                                                                                                 Fall 2004
Number 3                                                                         Summer 2004
Special Issue:
"New Directions in African American Women’s History"
The Journal of African American History
Formerly The Journal of Negro History
Founded by Carter G. Woodson, January 1, 1916
A Publication of the
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
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