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From the Editor

             The Summer/Fall 2020 issue of 1619: Journal of African American Studies features several powerful articles that range from historical genealogical research to the discussion and analysis of African American Literature and Art.  In addition, it features a paper written by a graduate of Central Connecticut State University written during her senior year before successfully completing her degree.

            Attorney Kara Crutcher’s article shares with readers, a very personal journey in which she used her academic skills and legal...

By Walton Brown Foster. PhD, Editor in Chief

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Piecing Together My Family and 19th Century Milledgeville Through the Southern Claims CommissionIntroduction              I’ve been to Milledgeville, Georgia a handful of times, and is a town that often goes...

THIS RELAY WAS ABOUT RACE: Fighting to Segregated Schools in Cleveland, Ohio            To many, "Black Lives Matter" is a necessary response to the multiple killings of African Americans by police across...

Speaking from the He(art): The Black Arts Movement           Africans and their descendants have been a part of the story of the Americas at least since 1619. They were...

Book Review: Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”Hurston, Z. N., Plant, D., & Walker, A. (2018). Barracoon: The story of the last “Black cargo” (First edition.). New York, NY: Amistad. 171...

Cultural Dynamism in the Works of Chinua Achebe, Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall                  This paper examines the works of three major writers, Chinua Achebe, Toni Morrison,...

Student Paper

The Double, Double Consciousness: Gender Construction in AmericaIntroduction  Many scholars who have analyzed W.E.B Du Bois’s work always points out his fight for African American civil rights. Many know him as...

Editor in Chief

Dr. Walton Brown-Foster

 

Editorial Board

Dr. Felton O. Best (CCSU)

Dr. Stacey Close, (ECSU)

Dr. Benjamin Foster, Jr. (CCSU)

Dr. Jane Gates (CSCU)