{"id":45639,"date":"2016-02-15T16:50:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45639"},"modified":"2016-02-15T16:50:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T16:50:42","slug":"end-the-autocracy-of-color-african-americans-and-global-visions-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45639","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEnd the Autocracy of Color\u201d: African Americans and Global Visions of Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cEnd the Autocracy of Color\u201d: African Americans and Global Visions of Freedom<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Imperial & Global Forum<\/a> (blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the History Department, University of Exeter)
\n2016-02-15<\/p>\n

Keisha N. Blain<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History
\nUniversity of Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJohn Q. Adams<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Historically, black men and women in the United States frequently linked national and geopolitical concerns. Recognizing that the condition of black people in the United States was \u201cbut a local phase of a world problem<\/a>,\u201d black activists articulated global visions of freedom and employed a range of strategies intent on shaping foreign policies and influencing world events.<\/p>\n

During the early twentieth century, John Q. Adams<\/a>, an African American journalist, called on people of African descent to link their experiences and concerns with those of people of color in other parts of the globe. Born in Louisville, Kentucky<\/a> in 1848, Adams moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1886<\/a>, where he became associate editor, and subsequent owner, of the Appeal<\/em> newspaper<\/a>. The paper\u2019s debut coincided with key historical developments of the period including the hardening of U.S. Jim Crow segregation laws<\/a>, the rising tide of anti-immigration sentiment, and the rapid growth of American imperial expansion overseas…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nJohn Q. Adams, \u201cEnd Autocracy of Color<\/a>,\u201d The Appeal, 4 January 1919<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cEnd the Autocracy of Color\u201d: African Americans and Global Visions of Freedom Imperial & Global Forum (blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the History Department, University of Exeter) 2016-02-15 Keisha N. Blain, Assistant Professor of History University of Iowa John Q. Adams Historically, black men and women in the United States […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,26,20],"tags":[22984,22985,22023,22022,5703,22983,22986,22010],"class_list":["post-45639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-imperial-global-forum","tag-john-q-adams","tag-keisha-blain","tag-keisha-n-blain","tag-minnesota","tag-the-appeal","tag-western-appeal","tag-woodrow-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45640,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions\/45640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}