Background
Polsgrove, Carol Claxon was born on February 19, 1945 in Louisville. Daughter of William Neville and Emma Osborne Claxon.
(No movement in the 20th century posed such a stark moral ...)
No movement in the 20th century posed such a stark moral challenge to American intellectuals as that of civil rights. Yet the response of prominent writers and thinkers was hesitant and ambivalent. William Faulkner spoke out for desegregation but asked the North to "go slow". Richard Wright and W.E.B. Du Bois had difficulty being heard while editors sought out more moderate voices. Other less patient voices struggled to emerge and put themselves at risk to air their views but it was James Baldwin who threw down a gauntlet to other intellectuals in his brilliant and revolutionary "The Fire Next Time". This text tells the history of the civil rights movement, full of stories of unaccountable bravery and inexplicable timidity - often the products of the same divided minds.
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(On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group o...)
On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group of Africans and West Indians in London dared to imagine the unimaginable: the end of British rule in Africa. In books, pamphlets, and periodicals, they launched an anti-colonial campaign that used publishing as a pathway to liberation. These writers included West Indians George Padmore, C. L. R. James, and Ras Makonnen, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and Sierra Leone's I. T. A. Wallace Johnson, and they made their point: that colonial rule was oppressive and inconsistent with the democratic ideals Britain claimed at home. Ending British rule in Africa draws on previously unexplored manuscript and archival collections to trace the development of this publishing community from its origins in George Padmore's American and Comintern years through the independence of Ghana in the 1957. This original study will be of interest to scholars and general readers interested in social movements, diaspora studies, empire and African history, publishing history, literary history, and cultural studies.
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Polsgrove, Carol Claxon was born on February 19, 1945 in Louisville. Daughter of William Neville and Emma Osborne Claxon.
Bachelor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1966. Master of Arts, University Louisville, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University Louisville, 1973.
Instructor Maysville Community College, Maysville, Kentucky, 1973—1974. Assistant professor Eastern Kentucky University, 1974—1977. Lecturer San Jose State University, California, 1978—1980, 1982—1983, California State University, Hayward, 1987—1989.
Professor Indiana University, Bloomington, 1989—2008. Retired, 2008.
(On the eve of World War II, a small, impoverished group o...)
(No movement in the 20th century posed such a stark moral ...)
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