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An American Dilemma
American Dilemma, An (1944).Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy ranks among the most important studies of American race relations. The “American Negro Problem,” Myrdal argued, lay not in African Americans' imagined inferiority, but in white... Read more |
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African Americans
African Americans Brenda Gayle Plummer Race and foreign affairs have intersected at numerous points in U.S. history. Officials in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were not always explicitly aware of the impact of race on foreign relations or on their own decision making, but its impact on... Read more |
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Maggie Williams
Maggie Williams1954— Government official A public relations consultant and Democratic campaign strategist, MaggieWilliams is a powerful and controversial figure in American politics. During the 1990s she served in the White House as chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and as an... Read more |
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Racism
Race and Racism Problems of race and race relations—particularly issues concerning the status of African‐Americans—have played a prominent role in American political life since the colonial era. Given the place of the Supreme Court in the political structure, it was almost... Read more |
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David Satcher
David Satcher1941– Physician, educator, administrator Dr. David Satcher attained distinction for his leadership at the highest levels of American health care. The first African-American director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Satcher increased the agency's attention on... Read more |
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Sambo
Sambo THE ORIGINS OF SAMBO SAMBO AND THE MINSTREL SHOW POPULAR CULTURE AND BLACKFACE PERFORMANCES SAMBO IN ACADEME BIBLIOGRAPHY The derisive term Sambo refers to African American males in a manner that is commonly viewed as racist and unacceptable. The long career of the Sambo stereotype... Read more |
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Great Migration
GREAT MIGRATION, 1910–1920 In 1914, 90 percent of African Americans lived in the states of the former Confederacy, where so-called Jim Crow statutes had legalized the separation of Americans by race. These statutes were validated by a series of Supreme Court rulings during the 1890s,... Read more |
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American Greetings Corp
American Greetings Corporation One American Road Cleveland, Ohio 44144-2398 U.S.A. Telephone: (216) 252-7300 Fax: (216) 252-6777 Web site: http://www.americangreetings.com Public Company Incorporated: 1944 as American Greeting Publishers, Inc. Employees: 32,600 Sales: $1.99 billion... Read more |
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Daniel Hale Williams
Williams, Daniel Hale (1856–1931), surgeon and educator, pioneer in both surgical technique and race relations.Born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Williams possessed a mixed racial ancestry, with Caucasian, Native American, and African‐American antecedents on both sides of his family.... Read more |
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Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley1952— Writer Walter Mosley has broken new ground as a mystery writer by incorporating issues of race into novels that stand on their own as gripping detective fiction. His novels are all written from an African-American perspective. He has also branched out into the areas of science... Read more |
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