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Pietersen, Sheri-Ann. "An Eriksonian psychobiography of Martin Luther King Junior." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021037.

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The aim of the current study was to conduct a psychobiography of the life of Martin Luther King Junior, who was born in 1929 and died in 1968. He was an American clergyman, husband, father, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement. King fought for civil rights for all people. His “I Have a Dream” speech raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established him as one of the greatest orators in the United States of America. His main legacy was to secure access to civil rights for all Americans, thereby empowering people of all racial and re

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Walch, Barbara Hunter. "Sallye B. Mathis and Mary L. Singleton: Black pioneers on the Jacksonville, Florida, City Council." UNF Digital Commons, 1988. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/704.

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In 1967 Sallye Brooks Mathis and Mary Littlejohn Singleton were elected the first blacks in sixty years, and the first women ever, to the city council of Jacksonville, Florida. These two women had been raised in Jacksonville in a black community which, in spite of racial discrimination and segregation since the Civil War, had demonstrated positive leadership and cooperative action as it developed its own organizations and maintained a thriving civic life. Jacksonville blacks participated in politics when allowed to do so and initiated several economic boycotts and court suits to resist racial

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Brown, Linda Bigger. "Schooling for blacks in Henrico County, Virginia 1870-1933 : with an emphasis on the contributions of Miss Virginia Estelle Randolph /." Diss., This resource online, 1990. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09162005-115016/.

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Stanford-Randle, Greer Charlotte PhD. "The Enigmatic "Cross-Over" Leadership Life of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1510931464259225.

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Ferguson, Janice Y. "Anna Julia Cooper: A Quintessential Leader." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1420567813.

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Jordan, Cheryl D. "Stories of Resistance: Black Women Corporate Executives Opposing Gendered (Everyday) Racism." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1312461227.

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Best, Felton O. "Crossing the color line : a biography of Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872-1906 /." Connect to resource, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1249488861.

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Joens, David A. "John W. E. Thomas : a political biography of Illinois' first African American state legislator /." Available to subscribers only, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1791777391&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009.<br>"Department of History." Keywords: Thomas, John W. E., Illinois, State legislators, African-Americans. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-364). Also available online.

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Joens, David Arthur. "John W. E. Thomas: A Political Biography of Illinois' First African American State Legislator." OpenSIUC, 2009. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/293.

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John W. E. Thomas (1847-1899) was elected as Illinois' first African American state legislator in 1877 and served three terms in the Illinois General Assembly. This dissertation serves as the first full length biography of Thomas and seeks to discuss African American politics and society in post Civil War Chicago.

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Barnaby, Nicole. "The Biography of an Institution: The Cultural Formation of Mass Incarceration." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1459887258.

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Kenck-Crispin, Douglas Jon. "Charles A. Moose: Race, Community Policing, and Portland's First African American Police Chief." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3412.

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In 1993, Charles Moose became Portland, Oregon's first black police chief. A nationally recognized student of the developing theories of community policing, Chief Moose's promotion was also hoped to help strengthen the diversity of the Portland Police Bureau. Ultimately, Portlanders were unable to look past Moose's public outbursts and demeanor and recognize his accomplishments. As a city, they missed an opportunity. This thesis uses transcripts of speeches and policy papers to present some political history to the reader, but also letters to the mayor's office, letters to the editor and the l

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Knight, Dawn K. "A biography of George Taliaferro and his impact on the integration of professional football." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1272767.

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George Taliaferro was a trailblazer. He was the first black quarterback in professional football, the first black quarterback in the National Football League (NFL), and the first black man to be drafted by an NFL team.Taliaferro's story of perseverance revealed the slow and difficult process of integration in high school, at Indiana University, and in his professional football career. The obstacles he faced and the lessons he learned were representative of issues related to the integration of the NFL.A combination of personal narrative and historical investigation was used in this creative pro

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Gaines, Adam W. "Work of Art : the life and music of Art Farmer." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1317924.

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Baldwin, Garth Adrian. "Rev James Warren "Jim" Jones: a psychobiographical study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1015635.

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The purpose of a psychobiography is to describe an individual‟s life while using a psychological theory. James Warren “Jim” Jones was selected through purposive sampling because of his instrumental role in organising the largest mass suicide in recorded USA history. Kernberg‟s (1979; 1985; 2004) object relations theory was used to illuminate his life and personality dynamics, a theory focused on describing the borderline personality organisation. The study employed a qualitative single case study design, and data was analysed according to the principals set out by Yin (1994) as well as Miles a

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Ruiters, Jeremy John. "Michael Jackson : a psychobiography." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013061.

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In a psychobiography a psychological theory is used as a framework to uncover the story of an individual. The psychobiographical approach to research tends to be underutilised. The result of this is that an important area for the application of psychobiographical theory and the study of completed lives is neglected. The value of psychobiographical studies has been advocated by many scholars in the field of psychobiographical research for the development and testing of theories relating to human development. The subject under investigation in this psychobiography is Michael Jackson. Although mu

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Roddy, Rhonda Kay. "In search of the self: An analysis of Incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2262.

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In her bibliography, Incidents in the life of a Salve Girl, Harriet Ann Jacobs appropriates the autobiographical "I" in order to tell her own story of slavery and talk back to the dominant culture that enslaves her. Through analysis and explication of the text, this thesis examines Jacobs' rhetorical and psyshological evolution from slave to self as she struggles against patriarchal power that would rob her of her identity as well as her freedom. Included in the discussion is an analysis of the concept of self in western plilosophy, an overview of american autobiography prior to the publicatio

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HELLER, CHARLES ERDMAN. "IN ADVANCE OF FATE: A BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE LUTHER STEARNS, 1809-1867 (MASSACHUSETTS)." 1985. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8509553.

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Born January 8, 1809, George Luther Stearns was from an old New England family. His father's death forced him to enter the business world at an early age. He rose from a clerk to a linseed oil manufacturer for the shipbuilders of his native Medford, Massachusetts. Later, the lead pipe factory he started solidified his wealth and standing in the manufacturing community. A conservative businessman, Stearns kept half his earnings in gold. From the Compromise of 1850 on, Stearns became increasingly active in antislavery efforts and involved with the Concord literati, including Emerson and Alcott.

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Ogg, Mariette. "Mess to the Press: Navigating Alex Haley's Journalistic Roots." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-85gt-ed78.

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Mess to the Press is a narrative of the life of Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (Alex Haley), the author and twenty-year United States Coast Guard veteran who wrote his way into annals of the nation’s literary, journalistic, and military histories. While the Pulitzer Prize-winning Haley is best known for authoring The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) and the genealogical epic Roots (1976), this study archives and considers over two decades of writerly practices that precede publication of these seminal texts. More specifically, the narrative history presented here—charted from a complex network

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Thango, Linda Thokozile. "Scratching where it itches in the autobiographies of Harriet Jacob's incidents in the life of a slave girl and Bhanu Kapil's Schizophrene." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24470.

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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Johannesburg, 2017<br>Set within a revisionist and feminist context, this thesis seeks to draw parallels in the autobiographical texts of Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) written by an African American ex-enslaved and Schizophrene (2011) penned by Bhanu Kapil, a British born Asian American, a descendant of a generation that live (d) through/with ‘what happened in a particular country on a partic

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Sibanda, Brian. "Perception by incomgruity." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19847.

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This study examines the paradoxical and at the same time interesting relationship between Christian religion and the system of slavery in the American historical context. Through the use of Kenneth Burke’s concept and theory of Perception by Incongruity as a theoretical and conceptual framework, this study examines Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Frederick Douglass’ The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. In the view of this study, Perception by Incongruity, as a theoretical and conceptual tool has the literary and the rhetorical resources to unmask th

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Ziegenbein, Linda M. "Inhabiting spaces, making places: Creating a spatial and material biography of David Ruggles." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3589230.

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This dissertation considers the role biography can play in analyses of past landscapes and, conversely, how those landscapes can help us better understand the lives of individuals. It focuses on one person, David Ruggles—a blind, African American, journalist, doctor, businessman, and antislavery activist—and a specific landscape, that of western Massachusetts during the mid-19th century. The questions that guide this dissertation concern the extent to which understanding past landscapes can reveal the previously unconsidered dimensions of the lives of people who experienced them. The landscape

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Wilson, Alona. "The formation of an African American artist, Hughie Lee-Smith, from 1925 to 1968." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/19572.

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This dissertation significantly expands our knowledge of the biography and artistic contributions of Hughie Lee-Smith (1915–1999), an African American artist. I argue that between 1925 and 1968 Lee-Smith’s personal, educational, and professional experiences within the context of Jim Crow America and the Cold War era influenced the style and content of his figurative work and his opportunities for success. Throughout the dissertation, I examine his inspirations from art history and position his works alongside those of his contemporaries to show that his paintings are based on observations, art

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Robinson, Jo-Ann. "An interpretive biography of Benjamin S. Ruffin, the first African American chair of the UNC Board of Governors how life experience informs practice /." 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-03232009-130331/unrestricted/etd.pdf.

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Jerrey, Lento Mzukisi. "A critical investigation to the concept of the double consciousness in selected African-American autobiographies." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19665.

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The study critically investigated the concept of ―Double Consciousness‖ in selected African-American autobiographies. In view of the latter, W.E.B. Du Bois defined double consciousness as a condition of being both black and American which he perceived as the reason black people were/are being discriminated in America. The study demonstrated that creative works such as Harriet Jacobs‘ Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl: Told by Herself, Frederick Douglass‘ The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois‘ The Souls of Black Folk, Booker T. Washington‘s Up from Slavery, Langston Hughes‘ The

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Emerson, Mark G. "Scholarly Edition of the Grand Tour Diaries of Frederick Douglass and Helen Pitts Douglass." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/4974.

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Bishop, Meghan Linsley. "Slave to Freewoman and Back Again: Kitty Payne and Antebellum Kidnapping." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/1009.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2007.<br>Title from screen (viewed June 11, 2007). Department of History, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 112-118).

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Dent, Jacqueline Elizabeth May. "Exploring the construction of white male identity in selected novels by J.M. Coetzee." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1583.

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Coetzee's own experience of living in apartheid South Africa provides the backdrop for novels infused with sardonic irony and rich metaphoric systems. In modes of metafiction that emphasize the destructive and violent nature of language, he optimizes his unique oeuvre to interrogate global, national and domestic power relations. This dissertation relies on psychoanalytical theories that examine microstructures of power within the individual, and in his domestic domain. Each of Coetzee's chief protagonists carries a secret related to a dysfunctional mother/son relationship. This hampers their p

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Sauer, Christof 1963. "Reaching the unreached Sudan Belt : Guinness, Kumm and the Sudan-Pioneer-Mission." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/891.

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This missiological project seeks to study the role of the Guinnesses and Kumms in reaching the Sudan Belt, particularly through the Sudan-Pionier-Mission (SPM) founded in 1900. The term Sudan Belt referred to Africa between Senegal and Ethiopia, at that period one of the largest areas unreached by Christian missionaries. Grattan Guinness (1835-1910) at that time was the most influential promoter of faith missions for the Sudan. The only initiative based in Germany was the SPM, founded by Guinness, his daughter Lucy (1865-1906), and her German husband Karl Kumm (1874-1930). K

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