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Volume 94
2009
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COMMENTARY: THE ELECTION OF BARACK OBAMA: THE DEBT HAS NOT BEEN    
PAID
  V.P. Franklin                                                                                                                          1     

“THIS PITIABLE REJECTION OF A GREAT OPPORTUNITY”: W.E.B. DU BOIS,
CLEMENT G. MORGAN, AND THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATION OF 1890
  Bruce A. Kimball                                                                                                                    5

RUNNING WITH THE REDS: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE COMMUNIST
PARTY DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION
  Lashawn Harris                                                                                                                    21

“NOT AN ACADEMIC AFFAIR”: AFRICAN AMERICAN SCHOLARS AND THE
DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES,
1942-1960
  Jerry Gershenhorn                                                                                                               44

PRISONER OF LOVE: AFFILIATION, SEXUALITY, AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
  Amy Abugo Ongiri                                                                                                               69

ESSAY REVIEWS


AFRICANS, THE BIBLE, AND CHRISTIANITY
  Michael Omolewa                                                                                                                87

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
  Monique Moultrie                                                                                                                92


BOOK REVIEWS


Jason R. Young, RITUALS OF RESISTANCE: AFRICAN ATLANTIC RELIGION IN THE
KONGO AND LOWCOUNTRY SOUTH IN THE ERA OF SLAVERY
  Sergio Lussana                                                                                                                     97

David Richardson, Anthony Tibbles, and Suzanne Schwarz, eds., LIVERPOOL AND
TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY
  Selwyn Carrington                                                                                                               99

Harriet A. Washington, MEDICAL APARTHEID: THE DARK HISTORY OF MEDICAL
EXPERIMENTATION ON BLACK AMERICANS FROM COLONIAL TIMES TO THE
PRESENT
  Malcolm Mills                                                                                                                    101

Susan E. O’Donovan, BECOMING FREE IN THE COTTON SOUTH
  Paul Thomas                                                                                                                      103

Dale Torston Graden, FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM IN BRAZIL: BAHIA, 1835-1900
  Joshua M. Rosenthal                                                                                                          105

Stephanie Mitchem, AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLK HEALING
  Deirdre Cooper Owens                                                                                                      108

Paul Christopher Johnson, DIASPORA CONVERSIONS: BLACK CARIB RELIGION AND
THE RECOVERY OF AFRICA
  Sara B. Farmer                                                                                                                  110

Debra A. Reid, REAPING A GREATER HARVEST: AFRICAN AMERICANS, THE
EXTENSION SERVICE, AND RURAL REFORM IN JIM CROW TEXAS
  Peggy B. Gill                                                                                                                      112

Marie W. Dallam, DADDY GRACE: A CELEBRITY PREACHER AND HIS HOUSE OF
PRAYER
  Marne L. Campbell                                                                                                            114

Robert Mann, WHEN FREEDOM WOULD TRIUMPH: THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE IN
CONGRESS, 1954-1968
  Stacy Kinlock Sewell                                                                                                          116
  
Brian K. Landsberg, FREE AT LAST TO VOTE: THE ALABAMA ORIGINS OF THE 1965
VOTING RIGHTS ACT
  Ashley M. Howard                                                                                                              118

Leslie W. Lewis, TELLING NARRATIVES: SECRETS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN
LITERATURE
  Sandra Bowen                                                                                                                    121

Edward J. Blum, W. E. B. DU BOIS, AMERICAN PROPHET\
  J.R. Kerr-Ritchie                                                                                                                123

Paul Alkebulan. SURVIVIAL PENDING REVOLUSTION: THE HISTORY OF THE BLACK
PANTHER PARTY
  Simon Wendt                                                                                                                      125

Paul Buhle, TIM HECTOR: A CARIBBEAN RADICAL’S STORY
  David Austin                                                                                                                       127


ANNOUNCEMENTS

REMEMBERING GLORIA HARPER DICKINSON (1947-2009)                                      130
  Bettye Collier-Thomas

EBSCOHOST AMERICA: HISTORY AND LIFE AWARD                                                    133

BOOKS RECEIVED                                                                                                              
134                                                            

CARTER G. WOODSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURESHIPS, 2008-2009                      139
Volume 94, No. 1      Winter 2009
COMMENTARY: REPARATIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL MALFEASANCE
  V.P. Franklin                                                                                                                      149

GARVEYISM AND LABOR ORGANIZATION ON THE CARIBBEAN COAST OF
GUATEMALA, 1920-1921
  Frederick Douglass Opie                                                                                                   153

“WHO DIVIDED THE CHURCH? AFRICAN AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS FIGHT
SEGREGATION IN THE POSTAL UNIONS, 1939-1962
  Philip F. Rubio                                                                                                                   172

“IN COMMON STRUGGLE AGAINST A COMMON OPPRESSION”:  THE UNITED FARM
WORKERS AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, 1968-1973
  Lauren Araiza                                                                                                                    200

THE MAKING OF A NUCLEAR ENGINEER, INVENTOR, AND BLACK FILM HISTORIAN:
DR. HENRY THOMAS SAMPSON, JR.
  Henry Thomas Sampson, Jr. with Laura H. Young-Sampson                                           224


ESSAY REVIEWS


THE HISTORY OF COLONIALISM IN AFRICA - REVISITED
  Michael Omolewa                                                                                                              248

AFRICAN AMERICANS, AFRO-GERMANS, WHITE AMERICANS, AND GERMANS
  Kenneth Barkin                                                                                                                  253

MEMORY-TELING AND PRAISE-SINGING OF THE GENIUS OF LANGSTON HUGHES
  Angelita F. Reyes                                                                                                               266


BOOK REVIEWS


Henry J. Richardson III, THE ORIGINS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTERESTS IN
INTERNATIONAL LAW
  Thomas J. Davis                                                                                                                 274

S. D. Smith, SLAVERY, FAMILY, AND GENTRY CAPTIALISM IN THE BRITISH
ATLANTIC: THE WORLD OF THE LASCELLES, 1648-1834
  Brooke Newman                                                                                                                 277

Todd L. Savitt, RACE AND MEDICINE IN NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH
CENTURY AMERICA
  Gregory D. Smithers                                                                                                          280

Margaret Humphreys, INTENSELY HUMAN: THE HEALTH OF THE BLACK SOLDIER IN
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
  Chad L. Williams                                                                                                                282

Art T. Burton, BLACK GUN, SILVER STAR: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF FRONTIER
MARSHALL BASS REEVES
  Barbara Behan                                                                                                                   285

Charles Lumpkins, AMERICAN POGROM: THE EAST ST. LOUIS RACE RIOT AND
BLACK POLITICS
  Sundiata Cha-Jua                                                                                                               287

Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, MIGRATING TO THE MOVIES: CINEMA AND BLACK
URBAN MODERNITY
  Dwayne Mack                                                                                                                     290

Cedric J. Robinson, FORGERIES OF MEMORY AND MEANING: BLACKS AND THE
REGIMES OF RACE IN AMERICAN THEATER AND FILM BEFORE WORLD WAR II
  Jill Watts                                                                                                                            293

Francille Rusan Wilson, SEGREGATED SCHOLARS: BLACK SOCIAL SCIENTISTS
AND THE CREATION OF BLACK LABOR STUDIES, 1890-1950
  Lillian S. Williams                                                                                                              296

Sonya Ramsey, READING, WRITING, AND SEGREGATION: A CENTURY OF BLACK
WOMEN TEACHERS IN NASHVILLE
  Carter Julian Savage                                                                                                         299

Dan R. Warren, IF IT TAKES ALL SUMMER: MARTIN LUTHER KING, THE KKK, AND
STATES’ RIGHTS IN ST. AUGUSTINE, 1964
  Dionne Danns                                                                                                                    301

Judith Kilpatrick, THERE WHEN WE NEEDED HIM: WILEY AUSTIN BRANTON, CIVIL
RIGHTS WARRIOR
  Scott C. Smith                                                                                                                     304

Scott Kurashige, THE SHIFTING GROUNDS OF RACE: BLACK AND JAPANESE
AMERICANS IN THE MAKING OF MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES
  Yuichiro Onishi                                                                                                                  306

Nell Bernstein, ALL ALONE IN THE WORLD: CHILDREN OF THE INCARCERATED
  Felicia W. Mack                                                                                                                 309

Wilbur C. Rich, ed., AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE
  Floyd W. Hayes, III                                                                                                            311


ANNOUNCEMENTS

REMEMBERING JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN (1915-2009)                                                  316
Volume 94, No. 2       Spring 2009
Special Issue
The Legacy of Dr. John Hope Franklin


INTRODUCTION:  EXPLORING THE LEGACY OF DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN  
V.P. Franklin                                                                                                                      317

A LIFE OF INTEGRITY: A TRIBUTE TO PROFESSOR JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
Genna Rae McNeil                                                                                                             323

HUMANITY, SCHOLARSHIP, AND PROUD RACE CITIZENSHIP: THE GIFTS OF JOHN
HOPE FRANKLIN
Nell Irvin Painter                                                                                                               341

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, A MENTOR AND CONFIDANTE
Bettye Collier-Thomas                                                                                                       344

JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN AND BLACK HISTORY IN TRANSITION
Darlene Clark Hine                                                                                                            354

HISTORIAN IN THE WORLD AND JUDICIOUS RADICAL
Robin D.G. Kelley                                                                                                             362

PARTICIPANT-OBSERVER OF HISTORY: JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN,
SCHOLAR, MENTOR, AND PROMOTER OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY
Lillian Serece Williams                                                                                                      370

“STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS”: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON A
GREAT AMERICAN
  Sylvia M. Jacobs                                                                                                              377

“WE CAN BEST HONOR THE PAST…BY FACING IT SQUARELY, HONESTLY, AND
ABOVE ALL, OPENLY”
Robert L. Harris, Jr.                                                                                                           391

A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS IN THE JOURNEY FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM
James B. Stewart                                                                                                                398

FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM, THIRD EDITION: SNAPSHOT FROM THE LIFE OF A
BOOK
 Tony Martin                                                                                                                      402

INTERVIEW


INTERVIEW WITH DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
Brian Purnell                                                                                                                      407

BOOK REVIEWS


Cedrick May, EVANGELISM AND RESISTANCE IN THE BLACK ATLANTIC, 1760-1835
Annette Palmer                                                                                                                   422

Curtis J. Evans, THE BURDEN OF BLACK RELIGION
Barbara L. Green                                                                                                               424

Jane E. Dabel, A RESPECTABLE WOMAN: THE PUBLIC ROLES OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN WOMEN IN NINETEENTH CENTURY NEW YORK
Julie Gallagher                                                                                                                  
426                                  

Eric Gardner, ed., JENNIE CARTER: A BLACK JOURNALIST IN THE EARLY WEST
Janice L. Sumler-Edmond                                                                                                  428

Micki McElya, CLINGING TO MAMMY: THE FAITHFUL SLAVE IN TWENTIETH
CENTURY AMERICA
Jennifer Frost                                                                                                                      430

Kimberly Wallace-Sanders, MAMMY: A CENTURY OF RACE, GENDER, AND
SOUTHERN MEMORY
June O. Patton                                                                                                                    432

David M. Lewis-Coleman, RACE AGAINST LIBERALISM: BLACK WORKERS AND THE
UAW IN DETROIT
William P. Jones                                                                                                                435

Margaret Wade-Lewis, LORENZO DOW TURNER: FATHER OF GULLAH STUDIES
Jennifer Hildebrand                                                                                                           436

Beverly Lindsay, ed., RALPH JOHNSON BUNCHE: PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL AND
NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE
Louis J. Wright, Jr.                                                                                                             438

Kevin K. Gaines, AFRICAN AMERICANS IN GHANA: BLACK EXPATRIATES AND THE
CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie                                                                                                        439

Earl Middleton and Joy Barnes, KNOWING WHO I AM: A BLACK ENTREPRENEUR’S
STRUGGLE AND SUCCESS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
Oscar Williams                                                                                                                   442

Huston Diehl, DREAM NOT OF OTHER WORLDS: TEACHING IN A SEGREGATED
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, 1970
Elizabeth Bridges                                                                                                               444

Paul Frymer, BLACK AND BLUE: AFRICAN AMERICANS, THE LABOR MOVEMENT
AND THE DECLINE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Simon Topping                                                                                                                   446

Jody Miller, GETTING PLAYED: AFRICAN AMERICAN GIRLS, URBAN INEQUALITY,
AND GENDERED VIOLENCE
Bettina L. Love                                                                                                                   448

Jennifer A. González, SUBJECT TO DISPLAY: REFRAMING RACE IN
CONTEMPORARY INSTALLATION ART
Andrea Burns                                                                                                                     450

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Volume 94, No. 3       Summer 2009