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Water in Sacred Places: Rebuilding New Orleans Black Churches as Sites of Community Empowerment
Many displaced residents have been frustrated in their efforts to return by several factors, including disputes with insurance companies, inadequate employment opportunities, high housing costs, housing shortages, concerns about flood protection, escalating insurance rates, and reduced city services. New Orleans African American churches have been actively involved in that effort.3 This article examines the work of several of the city's African American churches and suggests that it is emblematic of the role the black church is assuming in the city's recovery, a role that fits within a longstanding tradition of African American churches as centers of the social, political, economic, and religious life of their members and communities.4 The importance of religion and the church in the lives of African Americans has been well documented by scholars and other commentators.
Journal Article
Freedom’s Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides
De Vore reviews Freedom's Main Line: The Journey of Reconciliation and the Freedom Rides by Derek Charles Catsam.
Book Review
Race relations and community development: The education of blacks in New Orleans, 1862-1960
Throughout the history of the United States individuals and groups have used education as a means to improve their status in America--economically, politically, and socially. When slaves gained their freedom between 1862 and 1865, they, too, looked to education as a way to ameliorate the harmful effects of over two hundred years of slavery. In New Orleans freedmen and those free before the war viewed education almost as a panacea to the many problems within the black community. Black New Orleanians realized, of course, that the gains derived from education would take time to filter throughout the entire community. During the antebellum period New Orleans' free blacks had accumulated a certain degree of wealth and supported educational attainment for its members, and beginning in Reconstruction, led in the struggle for improved education for the entire black population. During Reconstruction blacks won inclusion into the public school system, and for several years many blacks attended desegregated schools. The end of Reconstruction, however, brought eventual disfranchisement and the triumph of a racial ideology that sought to impose on blacks the status of second class citizenship. This view found expression in the type of education whites thought blacks should receive. This study suggests that many blacks in New Orleans refused to accept the permanency of limited education or white supremacy. Devoid of political power, however, blacks used a strategy of petition and protest to school officials to gain educational improvements for the black community. Between 1900 and 1945 that strategy produced improvements, but by the end of World War II, black education still lagged behind the educational opportunities given whites. In 1948 black leaders abandoned the strategy of protest and petition and decided to use the federal courts to gain educational parity within a separate school system. Their goals shifted again in 1952, and they filed suit to end school desegregation in New Orleans. The legal assault to desegregate the schools was part of the larger black effort for racial equality.
Dissertation
Creating Community: Life and Learning at Montgomery's Black University (review)
It provides, in some ways, a typical and timeless look at the historical roles that HBCUs such as ASU have played in providing African Americans opportunities for educational, social, and political growth.
Journal Article
Technology Education in Prospect: Perceptions, Change, and the Survival of the Profession
While this Special Section focuses on issues related to one of the professional fields served by Epsilon Pi Tau, there is much of value to students and practitioners in the other fields of technology, particularly as we realize our connectiveness. Whatever goes well or poorly with anyone of our professional family undoubtedtly affects the others in the clan. This Special Edition is based on a November 12, 1998, presentation to the 85th Mississippi Valley Technology Education Conference (MVTTEC) in Rosemont, Illinois. The details of the concept and its implementation are best told from extracts of presenter Karnes’ introductory remarks at the conference. JS
Journal Article
Kepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science
The Kepler Mission, launched on Mar 6, 2009 was designed with the explicit capability to detect Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of solar-like stars using the transit photometry method. Results from just forty-three days of data along with ground-based follow-up observations have identified five new transiting planets with measurements of their masses, radii, and orbital periods. Many aspects of stellar astrophysics also benefit from the unique, precise, extended and nearly continuous data set for a large number and variety of stars. Early results for classical variables and eclipsing stars show great promise. To fully understand the methodology, processes and eventually the results from the mission, we present the underlying rationale that ultimately led to the flight and ground system designs used to achieve the exquisite photometric performance. As an example of the initial photometric results, we present variability measurements that can be used to distinguish dwarf stars from red giants.
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