In the Jim Crow era, along with black churches, schools, and
newspapers, African Americans also had their own history. Making
Black History focuses on the engine behind the early black history
movement, Carter G. Woodson and his Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History (ASNLH). Author Jeffrey Aaron Snyder shows
how the study and celebration of black history became an
increasingly important part of African American life over the
course of the early to mid-twentieth century. It was the glue that
held African Americans together as "a people," a weapon to fight
racism, and a roadmap to a brighter future.Making Black History
takes an expansive view of the historical enterprise, covering not
just the production of black history but also its circulation,
reception, and performance. Woodson, the only professional
historian whose parents had been born into slavery, attracted a
strong network of devoted members to the ASNLH, including
professional and lay historians, teachers, students, "race"
leaders, journalists, and artists. They all grappled with a set of
interrelated questions: Who and what is "Negro"? What is the
relationship of black history to American history? And what are the
purposes of history? Tracking the different answers to these
questions, Snyder recovers a rich public discourse about black
history that took shape in journals, monographs, and textbooks and
sprang to life in the pages of the black press, the classrooms of
black schools, and annual celebrations of Negro History Week. By
lining up the Negro history movement's trajectory with the wider
arc of African American history, Snyder changes our understanding
of such signal aspects of twentieth-century black life as
segregated schools, the Harlem Renaissance, and the emerging modern
civil rights movement.
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