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Shirley Graham, July 18, 1946
No full textPortrait of Shirley Graham. Written on verso: Shirley Graham; Photograph by Carl Van Vechten; 101 Central Park West; Cannot be reproduced without permission; July 18, 1946
Shirley Graham DuBois
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Shirley Graham DuBois
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Shirley Graham DuBois
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Elaine with her children Kenneth, Shirley, Graham and Teddy
No full textPhotograph of Elaine with her children Kenneth, Shirley, Graham and TeddyLeila Kerr (Linington) (Donor
Lorenz B. Graham, circa 1921/1930
No full textPhotograph of author Lorenz B. Graham. Graham wrote children's books. His sister, Shirley Graham, was married to civil rights leader W.E.B. DuBois
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The Artistry and Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer
No full textThis dissertation traces the early origins of Shirley Graham Du Bois, a well known Negro achiever in the 1930s and 1940s, from the decades preceding her birth in 1896 up through the mid-twentieth century when she has reached mid life and achieved a number of successes. It attempts to reclaim from obscurity the significant cultural production that Shirley Graham contributed to American society. Her artistry and activism were manifested in many ways. As a very young woman she conducted, throughout the northern and eastern parts of the U. S., musical concerts extolling the beauty and significance of spirituals. While attending school at Oberlin College, she wrote a musical opera that was regarded during its time as the world's first race opera. In 1936 she assumed the role of Director for the Chicago Black Unit of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP). After the FTP phased out, she attended Yale School of Drama to learn the craft of playwriting, and proceeded to write several plays that were staged and viewed by interracial audiences. As the country prepared for WWII, she was selected to head USO activities in Fort Huachuca, Arizona where the largest aggregation of Negro soldiers were stationed before being sent off to battle. She subsequently became a field secretary for the NAACP during this period of tumultuous change in the nation and the world. The early 1940s would see Graham reach the pinnacle of success during this phase of her life by writing biographies for a national children's audience. This success was short lived due to the political climate of red-baiting that became fashionable during the political reign of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Graham's progressive politics, communist affiliation and marriage to W. E. B. Du Bois placed her on the wrong side of the establishment. Each chapter develops the varying forms her activism took shape in each given situation. Following the example of fore-parents who were politically and socially engaged during their lifetimes, Graham follows suit. Her efforts reveal a woman who educated, inspired and empowered others while demonstrating the different ways one could use her abilities to confront racism.Afro-American StudiesDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.
Transcending Nationalities: Shirley Graham Du Bois and the Making of a New African Personality in Ghana
No full textIn everything I do, write or say, I think of myself as your ambassador, faithfully representing the true Ghana. Shirley Graham Du Bois made the above statement in a letter to Ghana\u27s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on October 20th, 1966, eight months after the overthrow of Nkrumah\u27s government. The letter revealed her continued support for Nkrumah\u27s vision of uplifting the Black race and defending Africa against neo-colonialists. The defense of Africa has always been a major theme for black nationalists. For instance, the likes of Edward Blyden and W.E.B. Dubois were described by historian James Meriwether as vindicationists because they chose to challenge and correct negative stereotypes about Africa and people of African descent. This paper argues that Nkrumah\u27s pursuit of a new African personality provided another vehicle to vindicate Africa and became an avenue for diaspora Africans to assert themselves in Africa. Graham Dubois was an American who died as a Tanzanian. Examining her lived experience in Africa, highlights the multiple ways diaspora Africans envisioned Africa and contributed to its developments. This examination will test the validity of the bad times thesis said to be the driving force behind African Americans\u27 interactions with Africa
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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