This chapter traces the origins of American anticommunism by focusing on the years between 1860 and 1917. It suggests that anticommunism was a response to the failure of US politic...

The Exodus Train

This chapter focuses on the Chicago Defender's role in sparking the Great Northern Drive mainly through advertisements that announced the many employment opportunities in the North...

Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons

Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational ster...

For Race and Country

Charles Young served as the highest-ranking African American officer in the U.S. Army until 1917. During his career, he served on the western frontier, in the Philippines, and in M...

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