12/21/2005 · Sociology professor and author Troy Duster was born on July 11, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois. The son of Alfreda Duster, a community organizer, he was raised on the south side of Chicago. His extraordinary grandmother, Ida B. Wells, was born a slave in 1862 in Mississippi, months before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
10/24/1989 · Directed by William Greaves. With Troy Duster , Al Freeman Jr.
Paula Giddings, Toni Morrison. The work of a notable civil rights crusader in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Alfreda Duster – Wikipedia, Troy ’s grandmother, Ida B . Wells , was born as a slave in Mississippi in 1862. As Phillip Dray (2002:53) has written, Wells grew up in the exhilarating spirit of Reconstruction “believing fervently in the promise of black citizenship and accomplishment, and for the rest of her life chose to behave as though that promise had never been …
Troy Duster, Ph.D.
grandson of Ida B. Wells, adds historical background to the reason why global pressure was solicited in order to address the wide-spread oppression and terrorism faced by African Americans at the turn of the 20th century.
White-Washing Race, Backdoor to Eugenics, The Legislation of Morality…, Erving Goffman, Robert K. Merton, William Graham Sumner, Talcott Parsons, Herbert J. Gans
