Trinkunas examines Venezuela's transition to democracy following military rule and its attempts to institutionalize civilian control of the military over the past sixty years, a period that included three regime changes. Placing Venezuela in comparative perspective with Argentina, Chile, and Spain, Trinkunas identifies the bureaucratic mechanisms democracies need in order to sustain civilian authority over the armed forces.
The convention began in the Goldsboro town hall , with William Smith O'Brien Robinson , a twenty - nine - yearold lawyer and the son of Irish immigrants , as chairman . Robinson and George T. Wassom , the black chairman of the county ...
At the core of Making Race, Making Power is an insightful dissection of the concrete connections between political strategies of solidarity and exclusion and underlying patterns of race relations.
Contributors to this important book hope to draw public attention to the tragedy, to honor its victims, and to bring a clear and timely historical voice to the debate over its legacy.
Coastal black leaders George W. Price Jr., Abraham Galloway, John Sampson, John Randolph, and Jonathan R. Good publicized the convention as a way to claim ''the dignity of men'' and the ''rights of Freemen that have been so long ...
Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood ... Schneider, Mark R. Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890–1920. ... “Confronting Jim Crow: Boston's Antislavery Tradition, 1890–1920.
No doubt whites did exercise considerable and inordinate control over the freedmen , individually or in groups ... But the disposition to accept white leadership was less likely to occur in those areas where Negro leadership was ...
Canvassing the town's black better class , Coleman found an enthusiastic and willing group of contributors and raised $ 5,000 ... In April 1897 , when the AMEZ board of bishops met at the publishing house » 74 in Charlotte , Coleman and ...
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress.
A Sketch of the Negro in Politics, Especially in South Carolina and Mississippi
Eric Anderson clarifies a confusing, uneven period of promise from the emancipation to the disfranchisement of black Americans.