The Dream Dancers, Volume I: New England Preservers of the Dream (1620-1924), recounts the long struggle to achieve freedom and equality for Americans of color, as experienced by a multicultural New England family. Born at the end of the Civil War, Edwin Bush Jourdain, Sr. (1865-1938) grew up in an American family of African, Native American, and European heritage in New Bedford, Massachusetts, during the turbulent era of unrealized post-Civil War dreams. In 1905, Edwin, Sr., will assist his friend and colleague W.E.B. Du Bois in the creation of the startling Niagara Movement that will insist...
The Dream Dancers, Volume I: New England Preservers of the Dream (1620-1924), recounts the long struggle to achieve freedom and equality for Americans...