Social Justice and Liberation Struggles

Glen Anthony Harris

doi:10.5771/9781793653697

Summary

Alexander McAllister Rivera Jr. was a prolific photojournalist and a foremost public relations specialist. Well-known for his long association with North Carolina Central University, his livelihood and professional career extended well beyond Durham, North Carolina. Rivera Jr. not only created a body of work that preserved critical aspects of African American and American history on the local, state, national, and international levels, he also personified the philosophies of confidentiality and anonymity essential in the field of public relations to maneuver and operate in the complex environment of national and state politics.

His career allowed him to witness, report, and participate to some degree on key historical events in the early-to-mid twentieth century, provided him connections to black communities across the country, and access to some of most powerful and influential people in the United States. He had unparalleled breath concerning the emerging struggle for equality.

This work will introduce Rivera Jr. - whose photojournalistic and public relations work has been ignored or underappreciated - to the historical record.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5368-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5369-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 270
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Notes No access
1. Thomas A. Rivera Sr. No access
2. St. Stephen African Methodist Episcopal Church No access
3. Thomas Rivera Jr. and the Events of Wilmington 1898 No access
4. Alexander McAllister Rivera Sr. No access
5. Judge John J. Parker: The Consequences of Bad Ideas No access
6. Postscript No access
7. Notes No access
1. Howard University, the Washington Tribune, and the U Street District No access
2. Marian Anderson and the Lincoln Memorial Recital No access
3. Dr. James E. Shepard and North Carolina College for Negroes No access
4. The Norfolk Journal and Guide, the Black Press, and Naval Intelligence No access
5. Introducing the Pittsburgh Courier No access
6. A Lynching Equates to an Absence of Democracy No access
7. Notes No access
1. Gaines v. Canada: 1938 No access
2. Two North Carolina Schools of Law No access
3. The National Association for the Advancement of Color People No access
4. Epps v. Carmichael (1950) and Its Aftermath No access
5. McKissick v. Carmichael (1950) No access
6. Notes No access
1. Clarendon County, South Carolina, and Briggs v. Elliott (1954) No access
2. The Pittsburgh Courier and the Southern Perspective of Integration No access
3. The Global News Syndicate Award and Vice President Richard M. Nixon No access
4. Notes No access
1. Vice President Nixon and the African American Press Corps No access
2. The Foundation of the African Independence Movement No access
3. From The Gold Coast to the Republic of Ghana No access
4. A Trifecta of Events No access
5. The Significance of Haile Selassie No access
6. Sudan, Libya, Liberia, Pope Pius XII, and Tunisia No access
7. Postscript No access
8. Notes No access
1. An Integral Understanding of Vice President Richard Nixon No access
2. Charles Stanback, President Gerald R. Ford, and the Art of Public Relations No access
3. The Return to North Carolina Central University, Public Relations, and President Gerald Ford No access
4. NCCU’s Director of Sports Information and Presidential/Chancellor Advisor No access
5. Retirement and Acknowledged Honors No access
6. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
1. Archival Materials No access
2. Oral Histories No access
3. Government and School Documents No access
4. Newspapers and Periodicals No access
5. Published Sources, Dissertations, Theses, and Unpublished Comments No access
Index No access Pages 257 - 268
About the Author No access Pages 269 - 270