Alonzo M Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3959210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alonzo M Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alonzo M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD A M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
H. Ford Douglas and the Emergence of Radical Activism in Illinois During the Civil War Era
BY THE MID-1850S, THE CONFRONTATION between the North and South became increasingly volatile, and the likelihood that its resolution would only be determined through violent means seemed inevitable. As the Civil War loomed, Black Illinoisans became even more resolute in their collective goal of economic empowerment. Expunging the state's Black laws, they maintained, was paramount to their collective survival, and the only way they would be able t…
Dream Books and Gamblers
“A Revolution in Labor”
IN MARCH 1875, A CHICAGO TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT reported that a miners’ strike in Brazil, Indiana, continued with conditions worsening and the “breach between labor and capital widen[ing].” The year-long labor dispute found the striking miners “dogged and sullen” and was taking a dreadful toll on the men and their families. Many of the town's merchants initially supported the strike, but they increasingly feared violence would ensue as the strikin…
Black Public History in Chicago
Ian Rocksborough-Smith's compelling monograph challenges the “tragic” narrative of the radical black Left in early Cold War America by examining the efforts of black public history activists. The significance of their collective activism, according to Rocksborough-Smith, “bridged the radical political cultures” of Great Depression– and World War II–era activists with those of the more familiar civil rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s (p. 3).…
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Black Public History in Chicago
Ian Rocksborough-Smith's compelling monograph challenges the “tragic” narrative of the radical black Left in early Cold War America by examining the efforts of black public history activists. The significance of their collective activism, according to Rocksborough-Smith, “bridged the radical political cultures” of Great Depression– and World War II–era activists with those of the more familiar civil rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s (p. 3).…
“A Revolution in Labor”
IN MARCH 1875, A CHICAGO TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT reported that a miners’ strike in Brazil, Indiana, continued with conditions worsening and the “breach between labor and capital widen[ing].” The year-long labor dispute found the striking miners “dogged and sullen” and was taking a dreadful toll on the men and their families. Many of the town's merchants initially supported the strike, but they increasingly feared violence would ensue as the strikin…
H. Ford Douglas and the Emergence of Radical Activism in Illinois During the Civil War Era
BY THE MID-1850S, THE CONFRONTATION between the North and South became increasingly volatile, and the likelihood that its resolution would only be determined through violent means seemed inevitable. As the Civil War loomed, Black Illinoisans became even more resolute in their collective goal of economic empowerment. Expunging the state's Black laws, they maintained, was paramount to their collective survival, and the only way they would be able t…
Dream Books and Gamblers
Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Spanish Civil War (2 works) · African-American history (1 work) · Appalachian Studies and Mathematics (1 work) · Art (1 work)