Nine Original Quarterly Issues of The Journal of Negro History with Articles on Colonial Race Thought, Voting Rights, African Origins, and Affirmative Action

The Journal of Negro History

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The Journal of Negro History traces Black historical scholarship from the civil rights crisis of the late 1960s to the constitutional battles over affirmative action in the early 1980s. Kenneth B. Clark opens the January 1968 number with “The Present Dilemma of the Negro,” while other issues examine racial thought in colonial America, Black sailors in the Navy and merchant service, discipline under industrial slavery in the Old South, antislavery agents working with free Black communities from 1833 to 1838, and the Bakke, Weber, and Fullilove affirmative-action cases. Across these numbers, Carter G. Woodson’s journal appears in its mature postwar form: a footnoted forum for recovering Black labor, law, politics, and institutions from records that earlier historians had ignored or treated as marginal.

Nine original quarterly issues of The Journal of Negro History, preserving the first periodical appearances of articles by Kenneth B. Clark, Walter Rodney, Allan Lichtman, Louis Ruchames, David W. Bishop, and others. Kenneth B. Clark, a psychologist whose work with Mamie Phipps Clark on children and racial segregation was cited in Brown v. Board of Education, opents the January 1968 issue with, “The Present Dilemma of the Negro,” connecting the journal’s historical scholarship to contemporaneous civil rights era debates over segregation, racial psychology, and Black political life.

William M. Brewer and Alton Hornsby, Jr., eds. The Journal of Negro History. Washington, D.C.: The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc., 1967-1982. Nine quarterly issues: Vol. LIII, Nos. 3 and 4, July and October 1967; Vol. LIII, Nos. 1 and 2, January and April 1968; Vol. LIV, Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, January, April, July, and October 1969; Vol. LV, No. 1, January 1970; and Vol. LXVII, No. 3, Fall 1982. Including writings, “The Emergence of DuBois As An African Nationalist”; Max Welborn, “Racial Massacre In Atlanta September 22, 1906”; Valeria W. Weaver, “The Failure Of Civil Rights 1875-1883 And Its Repercussions”; and “The Ethel Johns Report: Black Women In The Nursing Profession, 1925.”
These issues show Woodson’s program in the decades after civil rights activism brought Black historical scholarship into debates over school desegregation, voting rights enforcement, affirmative action, and the recovery of African origins in Atlantic slavery. January 1969 number includes the annual report “The Mis-Education of The Negro,” tying the Association’s current work to Woodson’s critique of American schooling, while the 1982 number places King’s memory, Central African slavery, Black women’s nursing labor, affirmative action, and Civil War freedom claims in the same scholarly forum. Wrappers show toning, some scattered stains, with some issues showing binding weakness; interiors remain readable. Overall very good condition. A compact run of The Journal of Negro History that connects ASALH’s Woodson-era mission to late twentieth-century scholarship on enslavement, civil rights enforcement, African diaspora origins, Black labor, and affirmative action law.

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Price: $550.00