Mary Rolinson

World History

This Day In History

Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

Dr. Rolinson is the author of Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 (Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2007). This book is part of the John Hope Franklin Series on African American History and Culture edited by Waldo Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. Dr. Rolinson is currently working on two research projects: One is on Mabel Murphy Smythe, an African American woman who was an expert on economic development and politics in the post-World War II era. Smythe became Jimmy Carter's Ambassador to Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea as well as deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Rolinson's second project is tracing the remains of the Garvey Movement from 1940-1975 through an examination of the Thomas W. Harvey Papers. Selected Publications: Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927. The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007). “Mabel Murphy Smythe,” African American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Grassroots Garveyism

January 01, 2013

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/434856.Grassroots_Garveyism Grassroots Garveyism: The Universal Negro Improvement Association in the Rural South, 1920-1927 by Mary G. Rolinson…

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