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

• 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 WATKINS, 1943-2007 Ralph R. Watkins passed away on September 18, 2007. He was diagnosed with cancer in May of...

  01/01/09 by Monroe Fordham · 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". (1) The...

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

• 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). Louis J....

  01/01/09 by James Davis · 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" which broke...

  01/01/09 by Charles "Pete" Banner-Haley · 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

• 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

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