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Books by Marcus Bruce
Christian
Song of the Black Valiants: Marching Tempo
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High Ground: A Collection of Poems /
Negro soldiers in the Battle of New Orleans
I am New
Orleans: A Poem
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900 /
The Liberty Monument
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Elmer A.
Carter on Christian's
"Men on Horseback"
OPPORTUNITY-Journal
of Negro Life
Published
by the National Urban League
1133
Broadway, Room 826
New
York City
August
Fifth 1936
My
dear Mr. Christian:
Thank
you very much for your letter. I am going to send your poem
['Men on Horseback'] over to W.C. Handy and see what he can do
with it. I will have Handy get in touch with you directly. If he
does not compose the music himself he is acquainted with a great
number of composers who, I am sure, could do justice to it.
Very sincerely yours,
Elmer Anderson Carter, Editor
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Elmer A. Carter (1890-1973), editor
and a prominent Republican, was the first chairman of the New
York State Commission Against discrimination (the predecessor of
the State Division of Human rights) and first director of the
State Human rights Division until his resignation in 1961. He
then served for two years as special assistant to Governor
Nelson A. Rockefeller on issues of race relations. In 1937,
while editor of Opportunity, a journal published by the Urban
League, Carter was appointed by Governor Herbert Lehman to the
Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board. He thus began a career in
public service devoted to eliminating racial bias in housing,
employment, and public accommodation. Carter's wife, the former
Thelma Johnson, died just a few weeks before her husband. The
Carters lived at 409 Edgecombe Avenue from the 1940s until their
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| OPPORTUNITY -- Journal of Negro Life, the
official organ of the National Urban League, completing in
December thirteen brilliant years under the able editorship of
distinctive contribution to the literature dealing with the
problems of interracial contacts in America. Dispassionate,
factual data and illuminating articles from the pens of some of
America's most distinguished students and writers graced the
columns of the magazine -- establishing it in the minds of
discriminating readers as one of the indispensable sources of
light on "America's most baffling problem." Opportunity
Journal, thanks to its perceptive, broad-minded editors,
first, Charles S. Johnson, and then Elmer A. Carter,
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Opportunity magazine was published from 1923 to 1949 by
the National Urban League (at first as a monthly, later as a
quarterly). . . .Charles S. Johnson served as its first editor
for five and a half years; Elmer A. Carter took over in 1928.
The magazine published both sociological reporting on conditions
of African American life and poetry and literature written by
young black writers. . . . After Johnson left the magazine for
Fisk University in 1928, the magazine continued to stress
socio-economic analysis of northern, urban African Americans.
Though he never stopped publishing stories and poems, Elmer A.
Carter, Johnson's successor, "directed his attention to the
sociological and economic aspects of the Negro's relation to
American life," as one early historian of the publication put
it. The magazine focused on working conditions of African
Americans during the Great Depression--and their precarious
relationship with America's labor unions. Then it focused on the
Fair Employment Practice Committee during the 1940s and the
general fight for racial equality which occurred during and
immediately after World War II.
Opportunity magazine
accomplished a great deal for a publication with a small
circulation. In every possible way, it promoted the work of
black writers and documented the lives of a growing number of
African Americans in northern cities. “Opportunity.” St.
James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture, Jan 29, 2002.
Find Articles
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Selected Letters
Selected Diary Notes Memories of Marcus B. Christian
(Cains) Christian's
BioBibliographical Record Introduction to I AM NEW
ORLEANS
A
Theory of a Black Aesthetic Magpies,
Goddesses, & Black Male Identity
Activist Works on Next Level of Change
Intro to I Am New
Orleans
Letter from Dillard University
A
Labor of Genuine Love
Letter of Gift of
Photos
Letters from
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900
By Marcus Bruce Christian
Study of the blacksmith
tradition and New Orleans famous lace balconies and
fences.
Acclaimed
during his life as the unofficial poet laureate of
the New Orleans African-American community, Marcus
Christian recorded a distinguished career as
historian, journalist, and literary scholar. He was
a contributor to Pelican's
Gumbo Ya Ya, and also wrote many articles
that appeared in numerous newspapers, journals, and
general-interest publications. |
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Audio:
My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)
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Hopes and Prospects
By Noam Chomsky
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky
surveys the dangers and prospects of our
early twenty-first century. Exploring
challenges such as the growing gap
between North and South, American
exceptionalism (including under
President Barack Obama), the fiascos of
Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S.-Israeli
assault on Gaza, and the recent
financial bailouts, he also sees hope
for the future and a way to move
forward—in the democratic wave in Latin
America and in the global solidarity
movements that suggest "real progress
toward freedom and justice." Hopes and
Prospects is essential reading for
anyone who is concerned about the
primary challenges still facing the
human race. "This is a classic Chomsky
work: a bonfire of myths and lies,
sophistries and delusions. Noam Chomsky
is an enduring inspiration all over the
world—to millions, I suspect—for the
simple reason that he is a truth-teller
on an epic scale. I salute him." —John
Pilger
In dissecting the rhetoric and logic of
American empire and class domination, at
home and abroad, Chomsky continues a
longstanding and crucial work of
elucidation and activism . . .the
writing remains unswervingly rational
and principled throughout, and lends
bracing impetus to the real alternatives
before us.—Publisher's
Weekly
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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