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Katz, William Loren was born on June 2, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of Bernard and Madeline (Simon) Katz.
(A study of the relationship between native American and A...)
A study of the relationship between native American and African-American people profiles six people of mixed African and native American ancestry, including colonial trader Richard Cuffe, Senator Robert Smalls, and artist Edmonia Lewis.
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(history of the American negro told in words and pictures ...)
history of the American negro told in words and pictures of those who made history - organized along lines of typical American History course
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( Out of a past little noted in history texts comes this...)
Out of a past little noted in history texts comes this tale of African American pioneers in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. These pathfinders were slaves, poets, runaways, missionaries, farmers, teachers, and soldiers. For these African Americans, the frontier meant freedom, and from the earliest times, some seized liberty by joining Indian nations. As Southern slaveholders tried to pass laws to make slavery legal in the West and territorial legislatures wrote "Black Laws" that limited basic rights to white settlers, African American pioneers became freedom fighters. From Ohio to Kansas they battled slavehunters and developed Underground Railroad stations. Black families built their own schools and churches and created unique forms of protest to ensure their advancement. Historian William Loren Katz reveals a frontier saga that has often been buried, glossed over, or lost.
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(from earliest times, black men and women helped shape the...)
from earliest times, black men and women helped shape the frontier of this country. yet, their participation in american history has often been neglected. william loren katz tells the story of thirty-five black people whose activities and accomplishments are a testimony to their unique contribution.
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(The compelling account of how two heritages united in the...)
The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America—now updated with new content! The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance and friendship among our country’s original inhabitants. Though they seldom appear in textbooks and movies, the children of Native- and African-American marriages helped shape the early days of the fur trade, added a new dimension to frontier diplomacy, and made a daring contribution to the fight for American liberty. Since its original publication, William Loren Katz’s Black Indians has remained the definitive work on a long, arduous quest for freedom and equality. This new edition features a new cover and includes updated information about a neglected chapter in American history.
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(Black women were always part of America's westward expans...)
Black women were always part of America's westward expansion. Some escaped slavery to live with the Native Americans, while others traveled west after the Civil War to settle the new lands. They came as servants and as independent pioneers struggling to make a life in the wilderness. Brief text and extraordinary photos record many of the black women who went West to find a new life for themselves and their families.
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( This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glori...)
This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as a revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on our early frontiers.Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers such as Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick, Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary, Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill—and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo.Featuring captivating narratives and photographs (many from the author’s world-famous collection), The Black West enriches and deepens our stirring frontier saga. From slave runaways during the colonial era, to the journeys of Lewis and Clark, to the charge at San Juan Hill, Katz vividly recounts the crucial contributions African Americans made during scores of frontier encounters. With its stirring pictures and vivid eyewitness accounts, The Black West is an exhilarating treasure trove.
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(Through a skillful interweaving of first-hand reports and...)
Through a skillful interweaving of first-hand reports and photographs, this riveting volume brings to life the young American poets, laborers, professors, students, seamen and journalists who challenged their government's Depression-era inaction to take up arms against the rising Facist tide in Europe.
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(The American West: no period in our history has defined a...)
The American West: no period in our history has defined and shaped us more as a nation. Unique to the U.S., the Old West exerts a power on the American imagination that can still be seen in almost every aspect of our culture. Sadly, as is the case with most other periods, historic acknowledgment of the African American contribution to the West is either totally nonexistent or nowhere near complete. In "The Black West," historian William Loren Katz corrects the record in words and pictures, showing that, from the journeys of Lewis and Clark to the charge at San Juan Hill, African American men and women exerted an influence beyond their numbers in the discovery and definition of the American West.
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("The role of black Indians, largely omitted from or disto...)
"The role of black Indians, largely omitted from or distorted in conventional history books, is traced by Katz with careful and committed research. . . . he integrates their general history with brief individual biographies, including leaders, army scouts and soldiers, frontiersmen and explorers, (and) dangerous outlaws".--Booklist.
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Katz, William Loren was born on June 2, 1927 in Brooklyn. Son of Bernard and Madeline (Simon) Katz.
Bachelor, Syracuse University, 1950. Master of Arts, New York University, 1952.
Teacher American history, New York City, 1954—1960, Hartsdale, New York, 1960—1967. Freelance author, since 1967. Consultant New York State Education Department, 1967-1968, 83-84, United States Air Force School in England, Belgium and Holland, 1974-1975.
Scholar in residence Teachers College Columbia, 1971-1973, New York University, 1987-1991. Teacher Black history Tombs Prison, New York City, 1973, New York University Afro-American Institute, 1973. Faculty Institute Urban and Minority Education, General Assistance Center, Teachers College Columbia University, 1976.
Teacher American history New School for Social Research, New York City, 1977-1983. President Ethrac Publications, since 1971.
(Through a skillful interweaving of first-hand reports and...)
( This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glori...)
(A study of the relationship between native American and A...)
(The compelling account of how two heritages united in the...)
("The role of black Indians, largely omitted from or disto...)
(history of the American negro told in words and pictures ...)
( Out of a past little noted in history texts comes this...)
(Discusses the causes, events, and effects of the Great De...)
(Filled with wonderful illustrations, this work offers fir...)
(Photographs and text describe German nazism of the 1930's...)
(2nd Revised edition, 1973, a like-new, unread, unworn, un...)
(Among the most pernicious myths about slavery in America ...)
(The American West: no period in our history has defined a...)
(from earliest times, black men and women helped shape the...)
(from earliest times, black men and women helped shape the...)
(A pictorial and documentary history of the Afro-American ...)
(Discusses the successes, failures, and collapse of the Re...)
(Black women were always part of America's westward expans...)
(Detailed autobiographies that exposed the slave system.)
(Book by Halliburton, Warrenj, Katz, William Loren)
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Member of executive board Art Against Apartheid, 1984. Member of national council National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1983-1985. Curator Black West Exhibit, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City, 1985-1986.
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1946.
Married Laurie Lehman, September 10, 1994.