Most Recent Articles from Afro-Americans in New York Life and History

• Look For Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance 

  Louis J. Parascandola, "Look For Me All Around You": Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance (Wayne State UP, 2005)....

  01/01/09 by James Davis · More from publication

• Napoleon v. Lemmon: antebellum black New Yorkers, antislavery, and law 

  In Lemmon v. the People (1860), New York's highest court declared that slaves traveling through the state with their holder were "free"....

  01/01/09 by Thomas J. Davis · More from publication

• This issue of Afro-Americans in New York Life and History is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Ralph Watkins 

  RALPH WATKINS, 1943-2007 Ralph R. Watkins passed away on September 18, 2007. He was diagnosed with cancer in May of 2005, was treated but had a...

  01/01/09 by Monroe Fordham · More from publication

• Myths and truths: the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans on the Southern Tier of upstate New York 

  The Civil Rights Movement is commonly thought of as a southern movement to eradicate Jim Crow segregation, or as a "freedom Struggle"...

  01/01/09 by Charles "Pete" Banner-Haley · More from publication

• Dr E.E. Nelson: founder of the Buffalo Cooperative Economic Society 

  During the several decades following the "great migration" of Afro-Americans to the northern cities, the economic and social problems confronting...

  01/01/09 by Monroe Fordham · More from publication

• African American historiography and community history preservation: a position paper 

  When Dr. Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in 1915 and The Journal of Negro History the following...

  01/01/09 by Monroe Fordham · More from publication

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