First Martyr of Liberty - Crispus Attucks in American Memory

Zusatztext [A] great read for a grounded biography of the man... and a thorough examination of inten¬tion in American history Informationen zum Autor Mitch Kachun is Professor of History at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Festivals of Freedom: Memory and Meaning in African American Emancipation Celebrations, 1808-1915 and co-editor of The Curse of Caste; or the Slave Bride: A Rediscovered African American Novel by Julia C. Collins. Klappentext First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in the role of African Americans in the mainstream American historical narrative from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Zusammenfassung First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in the role of African Americans in the mainstream American historical narrative from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Who Was This Man? Chapter 2: The Dustbin of History: Crispus Attucks and American Amnesia, 1770s-1840s Chapter 3: First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks and the Struggle for Citizenship in the Civil War Era Chapter 4: Crispus Attucks Meets Jim Crow: The Segregation of American Memory, 1870s-1910s Chapter 5: Crispus Attucks Meets the New Negro: Black History and Black Heroes between the World Wars Chapter 6: Crispus Attucks Meets Dorie Miller: Black Patriotism and Activism in the World War II Era Chapter 7: Crispus Attucks and the Black Freedom Struggle, 1950s-1970s Chapter 8: Crispus Attucks from the Bicentennial to the Culture Wars, 1970s-1990s Chapter 9: Crispus Attucks in Twenty-First Century America Conclusion Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Mitch Kachun, Mitch (Professor of History Kachun, Kachun Mitch
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780199731619
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973161-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), HISTORY / African American & Black, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War