“We Know Our Rights and Have the Courage to Defend Them”: The Spirit of Agitation in the Age of Accommodation, 1883–1909

The period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is one of the darkest epochs in American race relations. During the ‘nadir,’ African Americans responded to their conditions in numerous ways, including among others the promotion of self-help, racial solidarity, economic nationalism, p...

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Main Author: Alexander, Shawn Leigh
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2004
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3152669