And Still I Rise: Black America Since MLK
Language: English
Pages: 336
ISBN: 0062427008
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The companion book to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s PBS series, And Still I Rise—a timeline and chronicle of the past fifty years of black history in the U.S. in more than 350 photos.
Beginning with the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965, And Still I Rise: From Black Power to the White House explores the last half-century of the African American experience. More than fifty years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the birth of Black Power, the United States has both a black president and black CEOs running Fortune 500 companies—and a large black underclass beset by persistent poverty, inadequate education, and an epidemic of incarceration. Harvard professor and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. raises disturbing and vital questions about this dichotomy. How did the African American community end up encompassing such profound contradictions? And what will “the black community” mean tomorrow?
Gates takes readers through the major historical events and untold stories of the sixty years that have irrevocably shaped both the African American experience and the nation as a whole, from the explosive social and political changes of the 1960s, into the 1970s and 1980s—eras characterized by both prosperity and neglect—through the turn of the century to today, taking measure of such racial flashpoints as the Tawana Brawley case, OJ Simpson’s murder trial, the murders of Amadou Diallo and Trayvon Martin, and debates around the NYPD’s “stop and frisk” policies. Even as it surveys the political and social evolution of black America, And Still I Rise is also a celebration of the accomplishments of black artists, musicians, writers, comedians, and thinkers who have helped to define American popular culture and to change our world.
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Municipal workplaces.21 James Reynolds, director of the Colorado Civil Commission, discusses the Equal Employment Opportunity Act with other panelists. MARCH 27, 1972 Diana Ross and Cicely Tyson are nominated for Best Actress Oscars for Lady Sings the Blues and Sounder, respectively. APRIL 27, 1972 At age seventy-seven, Alma Thomas becomes the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work is influenced by abstract expressionism.
Hall delivers his late-night monologue. JANUARY 26, 1989 Colgate-Palmolive announces it will rename its Darkie toothpaste, sold in Asia and featuring a minstrel in blackface as its logo, to Darlie. “It’s just offensive,” says Colgate’s chief executive, Reuben Mark. Later in the year, Quaker Oats redesigns its iconic Aunt Jemima character, now with pearl earrings instead of a headband, in another attempt to distance its brand from evocations of American slavery.42 FEBRUARY 10, 1989 Ronald Brown,.
Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, twenty-eight-year-old Cuba Gooding, Jr., wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the football player Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire, in which he immortalizes the line “Show me the money!”25 APRIL 13, 1997 Twenty-one-year-old Tiger Woods wins the Masters golf tournament, dominating the field and claiming victory by a record-breaking twelve strokes. Woods’s father, Earl Woods, encouraged Tiger’s interest in golf at an early age, and Tiger.
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