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Forgotten Lives: African Americans in South Dakota

por Betti VanEpps-Taylor

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Throughout South Dakota's history, African Americans have been vastly outnumbered by their white and American Indian neighbors. Underreported as well, they have been misrepresented by historians, journalists, even census-takers. However, from the first African Americans to visit the Northern Great Plains as fur traders in the early 1800s to twentieth-century voting-rights advocates or professionals recruited after World War II, African Americans have pioneered here. They have participated in the state's successes and failures and contributed to its rich history. In Forgotten Lives, Betti VanEpps-Taylor teases these South Dakotans' stories out of newspaper accounts, census records, early social histories, and oral histories. Her insights into the lives and communities of this small but vital minority span two centuries and focus on the well known as well as the local. Prominent figures such as York, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition, and Oscar Micheaux, the acclaimed filmmaker, fit neatly into the timeline, alongside less-famous laborers, river men, soldiers, seamstresses, business owners, miners, lawyers, homesteaders, midwives, doctors, and town leaders. Their stories offer much to twenty-first-century Americans still struggling to come to grips with their racial history.… (mais)
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One of those great texts that underscores that there is a hidden and more than occasionally repressed racial history in almost every area of the United States. A brilliant and thoroughly researched piece of regional scholarship. A must have, not just for libraries but also for students of race history and Americana in general. ( )
  Dannelke | Jul 9, 2009 |
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As a history buff, I knew going in just based on the size of this volume that it would not be an in depth look at the lives of prominent African Americans in SD history. What Vanepps-Taylor does well, though is to provide a thorough broad range look at a number of people that history has left behind. As she herself stated, the further removed one gets from the point of first interaction, the less first person data there will be to relay. She has done a remarkable job with the sometimes scant primary sources that she had to find, collect, and collate. Now, the serious work can begin and other scholars can use her work as a jumping off point and dig further into these fascinating people and the way that they shaped the American West. ( )
  pandorabox82 | Aug 12, 2008 |
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The book's title and premise was far more interesting then the book itself for me. This was due to the fact that I didn't feel like I got a full taste of any one part of it. It visits several time periods in various chapters.
My favorite glimpse was on the African American women; however, no doubt this is largely due to my being female and so it helped me to feel like I could feel for them more with the glimpse I got into them.
The book is a interesting read, just not one I'm likely to read again soon. ( )
  Kaelendra | May 7, 2008 |
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I was immediately intrigued by the title of this book. The chronicles of one of our less populated states, particularly the role of African Americans in settling the area, could be a fascinating narrative. Unfortunately, this is not.

The book is divided into the various periods of history, starting with the Lewis and Clark expedition to present time. It is obvious that the historical material is sparse, as the author jams each chapter with example after example, providing a less than fulfilling account of any one person. It was more a cataloguing of names than a historical archive of events.

Perhaps the one exception to this, was the chapter on the African American women who left their mark in the unsettled territory. Three or four women are highlighted in detail, providing the reader with a satisfying account on the perilous lives of the early women settlers.

I found the writing choppy and obviously short on facts. The topic period was obviously too broad and unfocused. I learned little of any one important person.
Overall, an unsatisfying read. ( )
  TheaMak | May 6, 2008 |
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Forgotten Lives : African Americans in South Dakota is a very interesting book written about people who would have otherwise remained anynamous if not for the light shed on them by the author. The only downfall this book has is that it reads like a text book. I found myself struggling through some sections, just to get to the meat of the stories. If you can wade through the research done in the book, you can come away with some little gems of insight into an overlooked people who lived in the budding era of our country. For anyone who enjoys history I reccomend this book. ( )
  Jennyonfire | Apr 24, 2008 |
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Throughout South Dakota's history, African Americans have been vastly outnumbered by their white and American Indian neighbors. Underreported as well, they have been misrepresented by historians, journalists, even census-takers. However, from the first African Americans to visit the Northern Great Plains as fur traders in the early 1800s to twentieth-century voting-rights advocates or professionals recruited after World War II, African Americans have pioneered here. They have participated in the state's successes and failures and contributed to its rich history. In Forgotten Lives, Betti VanEpps-Taylor teases these South Dakotans' stories out of newspaper accounts, census records, early social histories, and oral histories. Her insights into the lives and communities of this small but vital minority span two centuries and focus on the well known as well as the local. Prominent figures such as York, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition, and Oscar Micheaux, the acclaimed filmmaker, fit neatly into the timeline, alongside less-famous laborers, river men, soldiers, seamstresses, business owners, miners, lawyers, homesteaders, midwives, doctors, and town leaders. Their stories offer much to twenty-first-century Americans still struggling to come to grips with their racial history.

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