Add to ORKGLike civil-rights activists everywhere, those in Maine challenged racism and inequality in postwar America. Two factors - the size of the African-American minority in Maine, and the subtle but insidious forms of racism in the state - shaped NAACP strategies in Bangor, Lewiston, Brunswick, and Portland. Beginning with a small core group in the 1950s, the NAACP succeeded in building a basis for civil-rights legislation in Maine - a legacy, as Lumpkins points out - shared by all Mainers today. A native of Massachusetts, Mr. Lumpkins earned a M.L.S. from Simmons College in 1977 and a M.A. in history from the University of Maine in 1992. He is a candidate for the doctorate in American history at Pennsylvania State University, and a librarian and...
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Many historical contributions have been made to Civil Rights movement history in Mississippi. Thus f...
This article discusses the history of slavery in Maine prior to 1820. Questions addressed include wh...
African Americans in Portland, Maine, in the 1940s and 1950s made up less than 0.5% of the populatio...
Maine’s bicentennial year is an appropriate moment to reflect on the historical legacy of public pol...
This article discusses the cultural and political attitudes that Northern Abolitionists held of Sout...
A report prepared by the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights in...
In coastal southern Maine, a number of towns people enslaved others in the years through the end of ...
William Burney and John Jenkins were, respectively, mayors of Augusta and Lewiston. While this in it...
Over the past century, African Americans took part in building organizations to bring about equal ri...
An undated statement from the Northern Maine Coalition on Undoing Racism refuting research which se...
In September 1826, a group of six African American men addressed a letter “To the Public” on behalf ...
In 1912, after having lived on the island since the Civil War, the mixed-race community of Malaga Is...
Over the past century, African Americans took part in building organizations to bring about equal ri...
Many issues divided the nation before the Civil War. One in particular involved the passage of Perso...
“Race and Justice in Mississippi’s Central Piney Woods, 1940-2010,” examines the black freedom strug...
Many historical contributions have been made to Civil Rights movement history in Mississippi. Thus f...
This article discusses the history of slavery in Maine prior to 1820. Questions addressed include wh...