National Research Council Committee on the Status of Black Americans working papers, 1986-1988.

Carson, Clayborne, 1944-....

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Persistence of the Spirit, directed by Ken Hubbell, was an interpretive study of the people and events that contributed to the black experience in Arkansas. Developed in 1986-87 by a team of humanities scholars (including Patricia Washington McGraw, Carl H. Moneyhon, Ruth Polk Patterson, Grif Stockley, Orville W. Taylor, LeRoy T. Williams, and Nudie E. Williams with Tom Baskett Jr. as editor) supported by grants (from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Projects and the...

Malveaux, Julianne 1953-

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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Status of Black Americans

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In 1985, "A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society" was published by the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences of the National Research Council. The work was prepared by the Committee on the Status of Black Americans which was charged by the Commission to "...marshall descriptive data on the changing position of blacks in American society since 1940; ...and explore the consequences, anticipated and unanticipated, of public and private initiatives to ameliorate the position of blacks ...

Bell, Derrick Albert, Jr., 1930-2011

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Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. was born in 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a distinguished scholar and prolific writer on current issues, most notably civil rights in the United States. His writings and lectures have examined racism's workings in American society, and the legal remedies for racism as it is expressed in law and custom. He is or has been a member of the D.C., Pennsylvania, New York State, City of New York, and California bar associations. After serving i...

Jackson, Henry F.

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Powell, Richard J., 1953-....

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Art historian, Durham, North Carolina. Powell curated the exhibition Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro-America, 1938-1946, at the National Museum of American Art, 1991-1992. From the guide to the Richard J. Powell papers, 1971-1992, (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution) Art historian, curator; Washington, D.C. (National Museum of American Art). From the description of Richard J. Powell papers, 1971-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81380229...

Williams, Robin Murphy

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Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Cornell University , 1946-2003. From the description of Robin Williams papers, 1954-1997. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 595197398 ...

Gates, Henry Louis

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Jaynes, Gerald David

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...