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This towering personage in the
life of the Negro cannot be appreciated today for the reason
that her task is almost done. Because of the rise of the race
from drudgery and the mechanization of the industrial world the
washerwoman is rapidly passing out. Confusing those women
employed in laundries with those washing at homes, the Bureau of
the Census in 1890 reported 151,540 washerwomen, 218,227 in
1900, and 373,819 in 1910. In 1920, however, there were actually
283,557, but this number has comparatively declined.
—Carter G. Woodson.
The Negro Washerwoman, a Vanishing
Figure
At the end of the Civil War newly
emancipated women moved to Atlanta to find employment as
household labourers and washerwomen
—International Review of
Social History
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John Henrik Clarke and the Power of
Africana History
Africalogical Quest for Decolonization
and Sovereignty
By Ahati N. N. Toure
Under Clarke s formulation liberation
was defined not simply as freedom from
European domination, but fundamentally
as the restoration of Afrikan
sovereignty. He explored history’s
utility in moving an oppressed and
subordinated people from a position of
subjugation on multiple levels to full
status as a self-sustaining,
self-defining, self-directed, free, and
independent people on a global stage.
Further, the study examines the
influence of indigenous Afrikan
intellectualism in the United States in
Afrikan cultural and intellectual
history. Although a leader among
European academy-trained Afrikan
intellectuals who join the European
academy largely beginning in the 1970s,
Clarke s education and training were the
product of a movement for the
indigenization of Afrikan academic
intellectualism in Harlem of the 1930s
that can be traced back to the early
nineteenth century. It is the first
extensive critical examination of Clarke
as an exemplar of indigenous
intellectualism in Afrikan culture in
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A Critical Biography
Julius E. Thompson and James L. Conyers, Jr.
Pan-African Nationalism in the Americas
The Life
And Times Of John Henrik Clarke. Africa World
Press, 2005. 260p
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John Henrik Clarke—A Great and Mighty Walk
This video chronicles the life
and times of the noted African-American historian, scholar and
Pan-African activist John Henrik Clarke (1915-1998). Both a
biography of Clarke himself and an overview of 5,000 years of
African history, the film offers a provocative look at the past
through the eyes of a leading proponent of an Afrocentric view of
history. From ancient Egypt and Africa’s other great empires, Clarke
moves through Mediterranean borrowings, the Atlantic slave trade,
European colonization, the development of the Pan-African movement,
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Dr. John Henrik
Clarke—Christopher Columbus 1 of 7
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