African Americans in North Dakota
Author : Thomas Newgard
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
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ISBN : 9780965288019
Author : Thomas Newgard
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
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ISBN : 9780965288019
Author : Stephanie Abbot Roper
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Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,31 MB
Release : 1993
Category : African Americans
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Author : Thomas P. and William C. Sherman Newgard
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Page : 231 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 1994
Category : African Americans
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Author : Betti Carol VanEpps-Taylor
Publisher : South Dakota Historical Society Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
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paperback original, 6 X 9 inches, photo essay, notes, bibliography, index.
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Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Indians of North America
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Journal of the Northern Plains.
Author : Era Bell Thompson
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 1986
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780873512015
Black North Dakotans were indeed something of a rarity in 1914, when young Erabelle Thompson and her family moved to a farm near the small community of Driscoll. In fact, when the Thompsons traveled thrity miles to join two other black families for Christmas dinner, "there were fifteen of us, four percent of the state's entire Negro population." In this lively autobiography, Thompson describes the experiences of her North Dakota girlhood: busting broncos with her brothers; making friends with Norwegian and German neighbors; meeting Governor Lynn J. Frazier, for whom her father worked as a personal messenger; running footraces at picnics (and knowing that people were betting on her to win); selling used furniture in Mandan; working her way through college in Grand Forks; and facing prejudice without the support of a large black community. She also discusses the impact of her North Dakota background on her later adventures in St. Paul and Chicago.
Author : Barbara Handy-Marchello
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0873516044
Winner of the 2006 Caroline Bancroft History Prize "Impressively researched and highly readable, Barbara Handy-Marchello's analysis of North Dakota farm women's roles will become the standard by which other works on the subject will be judged." Paula M. Nelson, author of The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own In Women of the Northern Plains, Barbara Handy-Marchello tells the stories of the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era: the farm women. As the men struggled to raise and sell wheat, the women focused on barnyard labor--raising chickens and cows and selling eggs and butter--to feed and clothe their families and maintain their households through booms and busts. Handy-Marchello details the hopes and fears, the challenges and successes of these women--from the Great Dakota Boom of the 1870s and '80s to the impending depression and drought of the 1930s. Women of the frontier willingly faced drudgery and loneliness, cramped and unconventional living quarters, the threat of prairie fires and fierce blizzards, and the isolation of homesteads located miles from the nearest neighbor. Despite these daunting realities, Dakota farm women cultivated communities among their distant neighbors, shared food and shelter with travelers, developed varied income sources, and raised large families, always keeping in sight the ultimate goal: to provide the next generation with rich, workable land. Enlivened by interviews with pioneer families as well as diaries, memoirs, and other primary sources, Women of the Northern Plains uncovers the significant and changing roles of Dakota farm women who were true partners to their husbands, their efforts marking the difference between success and failure for their families. Barbara Handy-Marchello is a history professor at the University of North Dakota. She has written articles on rural women and is the co-author of A History of the NDSU Seedstocks Project. She lives near Fargo, North Dakota.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 1556099770
Author : John W. Ravage
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Page : 256 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
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The image of the pioneer as white, male, strong, independent, Protestant, and native-born was created in popular literature towards the end of the 19th century, perhaps as a reaction against increased immigration and urbanization on the east coast. Ravage (communications, U. of Wyoming-Laramie) furthers the struggle to disseminate a truer image by assembling over 200 photographs never published before depicting African-Americans in the West. They are supported by substantial text, drawings, and reproductions of contemporary documents. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803226675
Until recently, histories of the American West gave little evidence of the presence?let alone importance?of African Americans in the unfolding of the western frontier. There might have been a mention of Estevan, slavery, or the Dred Scott decision, but the rich and varied experience of African Americans on the Great Plains went largely unnoted. This book, the first of its kind, supplies that critical missing chapter in American history. ø Originally published over the span of twenty-five years in Great Plains Quarterly, the essays collected here describe the part African Americans played in the frontier army and as homesteaders, community builders, and activists. The authors address race relations, discrimination, and violence. They tell of the struggle for civil rights and against Jim Crow, and they examine African American cultural growth and contributions as well as economic and political aspects of black life on the Great Plains. From individuals such as ?Pap? Singleton, Era Bell Thompson, Aaron Douglas, and Alphonso Trent; to incidents at Fort Hays, Brownsville, and Topeka; to defining moments in government, education, and the arts?this collection offers the first comprehensive overview of the black experience on the Plains.