Readings

Period II: To the End of World War II

African American Military Men WWII-- Justice Delayed, Justice Denied

Alaska Highway--- A Feat of Skill and Endurance

Bert Williams--- Commedian and Showman

Bessie Coleman--- Very Early African American Woman-- From Oklahoma

Black Boomers--- Is There A Change for a New Beginning?

Black Seminoles and the Cudjoes

Freedom Fighters---Black Seminole Scouts

The Black Worker Reconstruction Era--- The Urban Life

Black Worker 1900-1971--- On the Ragged Edge

Black Worker in Transition from Agriculture to Industry-- Off to the Ragged Edge and the Shady Side of Town

African Americans in Early 20th Cent. film.

The Blanche K. Bruce Dynasty Begins

Blanche K. Bruce--- Senate Experience

Charles Young--- Colonel who was Denied a Generalship

W.E.B. DuBois and Germany--- a place to find oneself

Fisk Jubilee Singers--- Building a Monument

Hattie McDaniel--- Film Actress. First Oscar Winner

Henri Razafkeriefo--- Harlem's Man of Mystery and Music

Horsemen in the Bluegrass--- A Family of Professional Race Horse Trainers

Ida B. Wells--- The Best Study of Lynching

John Hope Franklin--- Famous Oklahoma Historian Speaks Out

Johnson Whittaker--- A West Point Cadet Forced Out

Juneteenth--- Celebrating

Lead Belly--- Musical Icon

Lewis Latimer--- Draftsman for Great Inventors

Meharry Medical College--- A Nashville Pride

Men, Markets, Money, 1865-World War I--- The Quest for Economic Security

Ralph Brock--- The First Professional Black Forester

Robert S. Abbott--- Editor of the Influential "Chicago Defender"

Scott Joplin--- The World Danced and Stepped on his Time

They Went West--- In Search of the American Dream and African American Fulfillment

Tuskegee Experiment--- A Tail of Medical Experimentation on Black Rabbits