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The Dream Dancers: Volume One

BySpencer Jourdain

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The Dream Dancers, Volume I: New England Preservers of the Dream (1620–1924), recounts the long struggle to achieve freedom and equality for Americans of color, as experienced by a multicultural New England family. Born at the end of the Civil War, Edwin Bush Jourdain, Sr. (1865–1938) grew up in an American family of African, Native American, and European heritage in New Bedford, Massachusetts, during the turbulent era of unrealized post–Civil War dreams. In 1905, Edwin, Sr., will assist his friend and colleague W.E.B. Du Bois in the creation of the startling Niagara Movement that will insist upon equal civil rights without further delay for people of color in America, and around the world. The empowering philosophy of the Niagara Movement will motivate Attorney Jourdain’s son, Edwin B. Jourdain, Jr., while a student at Harvard in 1921 to ignite a protest for student racial equality soon championed by Harvard alumni nationwide.

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Publication Date
Nov 14, 2011
Language
English
ISBN
9780976523260
Category
History
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Spencer Jourdain

Specifications

Pages
280
Binding
Perfect Bound
Interior Color
Black & White
Dimensions
US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)

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