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TITLES OF ARTICLES IN RECENT ISSUES OF THE JOURNAL

 

Volume 32  Number 2 (July 2008)

 

Felix Armfield:  “Introduction to the Niagara Movement Special Issue.”

 

Kyle D. Wolf:  “The Niagara Movement in 1905: A Look Back to a Century Ago.”

 

Mark Elliott:  “The Question of Color-Blind Citizenship: Albion Tourgee, W.E.B. Du Bois and the Principles of the Niagara Movement.”

 

Ida Jones:  “Coming of the Race: Kelly Miller and Two Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the Niagara Movement Era.”

 

Anita Nahal and Lopez D. Matthews, Jr.:  “African American Women and the Niagara Movement, 1905-1909.”

 

Book Reviews           

 

 

Volume 32  Number 1 (January 2008)

Bernth Lindfors:  “Ira Aldridge’s Life in New York City.”

Jennifer A, Lemak:  “Albany, New York and the Great Migration.”

Diedre Hill Butler:  “The South Side Community Center of Ithaca, New York: Built Through ‘Community Mothering,’1938.”

Alice Bernstein:  “Remembering the Civil Rights Struggle in Brooklyn, New York.”

Stefan Bradley:  “‘This is Harlem Heights’: Black Student Power and the 1968 Columbia University Rebellion.”

Book Reviews

 

Volume 31  Number 2 (July 2007)

 

Clarence Taylor:  "Introduction to Special Issue."

 

Martha Biondi:  "How New York Changes the Story of the Civil Rights Movement."

 

Peter Eisenstadt:  "Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New York City."

 

Brian Purnell:  "'Taxation Without Sanitation is Tyranny:' Civil Rights Struggle Over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New York During the Fall of 1962."

 

Daniel Perlstein:  "The Dead End of Despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York School Crisis, and the Struggle for Racial Justice."

 

Clarence Taylor:  "Robert Wagner, Milton Galamison and the Challenge to New York City Liberalism."

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Volume 31  Number 1 (January 2007)

 

Ian Rocksborough-Smith:  “‘Filling the Gap’: Intergenerational Black Radicalism and the Popular Front Ideals of Freedomways Magazine’s Early Years, 1961-1965.”        

                                             

Jamie J. Wilson:  “Individual and Organizational Responses to Health Conditions in Harlem, New York, During the Interwar Period.” 

 

Stephen J. Valone:  “William Henry Seward, the Virgina Controversy, and the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1839-1841.”                              

 

Bernth Lindfors: “Ira Aldridge’s Relatives in New York City.”

 

A.J. Williams-Myers:  “Out of the Shadows: African Descendants – Revolutionary Combatants in the Hudson River Valley; A Preliminary Historical Sketch.”                                                                      

 

Book Reviews:

 

 

Volume 30  Number 2 (July 2006)

 

SPECIAL ISSUE: “Street Scholars and Stepladder Radicals; A Harlem Tradition.” Guest Editor, Ralph L. Crowder

 

John M. McClendon:  “Richard B. Moore, Radical Politics and the Afro-American History Movement: The Formation of a Revolutionary Tradition in African American Intellectual Culture.”

 

Malik Simba:   "Joel Augustus Rogers: Negro Historian in History, Time, and Space.”

 

Thabiti Asukile:  “Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938): Embracing the Black  Motherhood Experience in Love of Black People.”

 

Karen Wilson:  “Harlem Wisdom in a Wild Woman’s Blues: The Cool Intellect of Ida Cox.”

 

Ralph L. Crowder:  “Willis Nathaniel Huggins (1886-1941): Historian, Activist, and Community Mentor.”

 

Ula Taylor:  “Street Strollers: Grounding the Theory of Black Women Intellectuals.”

 

Jacob H. Carruthers:  “John Henrik Clarke: The Harlem Connection to the Founding of Africana Studies.”

 

 

Volume 30   Number 1   (January 2006)

 

Louis J. Parascandola:  “Cyril Briggs and the African Blood Brotherhood: A Radical Counterpoint to Progressivism.”    

 

James H. Rigali and John C. Walter:  “The Anglophone Caribbean Immigrant & Partisan Politics in New York City, 1900-1972.”

 

Felix L. Armfield:  “Eugene Kinckle Jones and the Struggle to Keep the National Urban League Afloat During the Great Depression.”

 

 

Volume 29   Number 2   (July 2005)

 

James H. Rigali and John C. Walter:  “The Integration of the American Bowling Congress: The Buffalo Experience.”

 

Michael Boston:  “Dr. P.H. Skinner: Controversial Educator of the Deaf, Blind and Mute, and Niagara Falls, NY Abolitionist.”

 

Ralph L. Crowder:  “Tribute to the Pioneer Patriarch of African American History: Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950).”

 

A.J. Williams-Myers:  “Some Notes on the Extent of New York City’s Involvement in the Underground Railroad.”                   

 

Melvin I. Douglass:  “Tribute to an Outstanding New York African American Educator: Dr. Adelaide L. Sanford.”                   

 

Charles Banner Haley:  “Reclaiming the Past: Local People, Local & National History; A Book Review Essay.”                       

  

 

Volume 29  Number 1  (January 2005)

 

Jacqueline A. McLeod:  Persona Non-Grata: Judge Jane Matilda Bolin and the NAACP, 1930-1950.”

 

Alice Bernstein: “Philip Rose: A Broadway Journey Against Racism.”

 

Rick Knott: “The Jack Johnson v. Barney Olfield Match Race of 1910; What It Says About Race in America.”

 

Khaled Aljenfawi:  “Art as Propaganda: Didactism and Lived Experience.”

 

 

Volume 28   Number 2  ( July 2004)

 

Michael B. Boston:  “Blacks in Niagara Falls , New York : 1865 to 1965, A Survey.”

                                                                                                

A.J. Williams-Myers:  “Positioning and Imaging Caesar: From Margin to Center in the Historiography of Colonial New York  City .”    

 

Rebeccah Welch:  “The African Presence in Lower Manhattan , 1613-1863 (A Topical Reading List).”                                             

Georgia Burnette:  “Looking Back: Black Nurses Struggle for Admission to Professional Schools.”                                         

 
Book Reviews                                                                                        

 

 

Volume 28  Number 1    (January  2004)

 

Gabriel Smith:  Correspondence Between the Reverend J. Edward Nash, Sr., Pastor, Michigan Street Baptist Church, Buffalo, NY, and African-American Soldiers During World War II.        

 

Barbara A. Seals Nevergold:  “Doing the Pan”: The African-American Experience at the Pan-American Exposition, 1901.             

 

Angela Murphy:  “It Outlaws Me, and I Outlaw it”! Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Law in Syracuse , New York.

                     

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo:  Getting To Work In Spite of the Odds:  Commuting Patterns of African-Americans in Rochester and Buffalo , New York . 

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Volume  27   Number 2   (July 2003)   

 

Jane E. Dabel:  African-American Mothers in New York City , 1827-1877.

 

Jean Richardson:  Buffalo’s Antebellum African-American Community and The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. 

 

Durahn Taylor: “Bill-O” and “the Fox”: Linkage and Leverage in Postwar Harlem Politics, 1945-1950.

 

Jan DeAmicis:  Slavery in Oneida County, New York

 

Book Reviews 

 

 

Volume 27   Number 1   (January 2003 )

 

Karen Lettko:  Dr. Anna Porter Burrell; “A Quiet Breakthrough.”

 

Eric J. Roth:  “The Society of Negroes Unsettled”:  A History of Slavery in New Paltz , New York .

 

A.J. Williams-Myers: The Underground Railroad in the Hudson River Valley : A Succinct Historical Composite. 

 

Ralph L. Crowder:  “Grand Old Man of the Movement”: John Edward Bruce, Marcus Garvey, and the U.N.I.A..

 

Book Reviews

Volume 26   Number 2   (July  2002)

 

Jim Goldfarb:  Harlem’s Team: The New York Lincoln Giants.  
 
Craig Steven Wilder:  “The Guardian Angel of Africa”: A Financial History of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief, 1808-1945.
 
John C. Walter:  Problems and Possibilities for Black Studies for the 21st Century.
 
Book Reviews

 

Volume 26  Number 1  (January 2002)

 

Jerald E. Podair: The Strikes That Changed New York: Race, Culture, and Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1960-1975.

 

Victor J. DiSanto: Peg Leg Bates and the Peg Leg Bates Country Club.

 

Ralph L. Crowder: From Slavery to Freedom: John Edward Bruce’s Childhood and Adolescence.

 

Ralph L. Crowder: Race, Politics, and Patronage: John Edward Bruce and the Republican Party.

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Volume 25  Number 2  (July 2001)

 

Sherri L. Wallace: Buffalo’s "Prophet of Protest": The Political Leadership and Activism of the Reverend Dr. Bennett W. Smith, Sr.

 

Lorna Fitzsimmons: Adapting Cotton Comes to Harlem: From Inter to Intra-racial Conflict.

 

Thomas J. Davis: Another Place, Another Promise, Another Paradise? Another Perspective on Black Migration, Promised Lands, and Paradises.

 

Bert J. Thomas: Constructing the Caribbean-American Family: The Influence of Middle Class Grandfathers Over Their Grandsons.

 

Barbara S. Seals Nevergold: To Be an Instrument for Their Voices: Finding, Writing and Sharing Family Histories.

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Volume 25  Number 1  (January 2001)

 

Milton C. Sernett: "On Freedom’s Trail": Researching the Underground Railroad in New York State. Page 7

 

Judith Wellman: Larry Gara’s Liberty Line in Oswego County, New York, 1838-1854: A New Look at the Legend. Page 33

 

William Seraile: The Civil War’s Impact on Race Relations in New York State, 1865-1875. Page 57

 

Editorial. Page 91

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Volume 24  Number 2 (July 2000)

 

Buzz Haughton: "Bayard Rustin: An Annotated Bio-bibliography."

 

Madeline O. Scott: "DOCUMENT: Proceedings of an Address Delivered at the Colored Voters League’s Annual Meeting, Orlean, New York, August    13-15, 1895."

 

Ralph Crowder: "DOCUMENT: Laura Eliza Wilkes; A Memorial Address on the Life and Death of a Neglected Pioneer Black Female Historian,  Presented by John Edward Bruce, 1922."

 

Sharon Y. Holley and Lennox Yearwood: "DOCUMENT: Mary Crosby Chappelle of Buffalo, New York; A Biographical Interview."

 

Book Reviews 

 

 

Volume 24  Number 1 (January 2000)

 

Judson L. Jeffries: "The New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, 1970-1988."

 

Carol Faulkner: "’A Proper Recognition of Our Manhood’: The African Civilization Society and the Freedmen'’ Aid Movement."

 

Clarence Taylor: "Expanding the Boundaries of Politics: The Various Voices of the Black Religious Community of Brooklyn, New York Before and During the Cold War."

 

Ralph L. Crowder: "Fidel Castro and Harlem: Political, Diplomatic, and Social Influences of the 1960 Visit to the Hotel Theresa."

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Volume 23  Number 2 (July 1999)

 

A.J. Williams-Myers: "An African Voice Among the River Folk of the Hudson River Valley: The Diary of an Ex-slave, 1827-1866."

 

Genyne Henry Boston: "Masked Illusions: An Examination of Performance Traditions and W.E.B. DuBois’ Notion of Double Consciousness."

 

Book Review Essay 

 

 

Volume 23  Number 1 (January 1999)

 

Joseph A. Douglas: "The Ironic Role of African Americans in the Elmira, New York Civil War Prison Camp, 1864-1865."

 

Marva Griffin Carter: "The ‘New Negro’ Legacy of Will Marion Cook."

 

Michael E. Lomax: "I Never Had it Made Revisited: The Political, Economic, and Social Ideology of Jackie Robinson."

 

Robert J. Havlik: "A Coffin for the Union."

 

Book Reviews

 

 

Volume 22  Number 2 (July 1998)

 

Craig Steven Wilder: "The Rise and Influence of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief, 1808-1865."

 

Robert J. Swan: "The Other Fort Amsterdam: New Light on Aspects of Slavery in New Netherland."

 

A.J. Williams-Myers: "The Plight of African Americans in Ante-Bellum of New York City."

 

Ralph L. Crowder: "Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and John Edward Bruce: The Relationship of a Militant Black Journalist with the ‘Father  of Civil Rights,’ and the ‘Wizard of Tuskegee.’"

 

Book Reviews 

 

 

Volume 22  Number 1 (January 1998)

 

E. Anne Schaetzke: "Slavery in the Genesee Country (also known as Ontario County), 1789 to 1827."

 

Tamara Brown: "It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Harlem Swing: Social Dance and the Harlem Renaissance."

 

Thorin Tritter: "The Growth and Decline of Harlem’s Housing."

 

Book Reviews 

 

 

Volume 21  Number 2 (July 1997)

 

Victor J. Disanto, "Henry Johnson’s Paradox: A Soldier’s Story."

 

Jan DeAmicis, "’To Them That Has Brot Me Up’: Black Oneidans and Their Families, 1850 to 1920."

 

James H. Meriwether, "The American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa and its Arden House Conference."

 

A.J. Williams-Myers, " New York City, African Americans and Selective Memory."

 

Edward S. Jenkins, "Empirical Findings By a Young Medical Scientist on Two Acute Medical Diseases…."

 

Book Reviews  

 

Volume 21  Number 1 (January 1997)

 

Monroe Fordham, "Origins of the Michigan Street Baptist Church, Buffalo, NY."

 

John F. Siskar, "The B.U.I.L.D. Academy: A Historical Study of Community Action…in Buffalo, NY."

 

B. Gwendolyn Greene, "From the ‘Chapel’ to the Buffalo Urban League."

 

Thelma B. Thompson, "Autobiography as Self-Discovery and Affirmation in James Weldon Johnson's Journey, Along This Way."

 

Oscar R. Williams, "From Black Liberal to Black Conservative: George S. Schuyler, 1923-1925."

 

James R. McDonnell, " Interview With Olin Wilson: Charter Member, Steelworkers Organizing Committee, Bethlehem Steel Corp.,       

Buffalo, NY."

 

Book Reviews 

 

Volume 20  Number 2 (July 1996)

 

Marcy S. Sacks, "…Separatism and the Demand for Equality by Albany’s (NY) Black Citizens, 1827-1860."

 

Robert T. Vinson, "…The Promotion and Encouragement of the Atlantic Slave Trade by the New York Judiciary System, 1857-1862."

 

Ralph L. Crowder, "John E. Bruce, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Alexander Crummell, and J. Robert Love: Mentors, Patrons, and Evolution of A Pan-African   Intellectual Network."

 

Patsy M. Fletcher, "Historic Preservation and the African American Community."

 

Book Reviews 

 

Volume 20  Number 1 (January 1996)

 

Richard McRae, "Paying Their Dues: Buffalo’s African American Musicians Union, Local 533, A.F.M., 1917-1969."      

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