Maurice Jackson is an American scholar and political activist. He is currently an Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies and an Affiliated Professor of Performing Arts (Jazz) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in addition to being a visiting professor at its Qatar campus. [1] [2]
Jackson teaches Atlantic, African-American History, and the history of Washington, D.C. at Georgetown University. [1] He also teaches African-American history and Jazz history. [1] He is currently working on a social, political, and cultural history of African Americans in Washington (1790 to the present). Jackson earned his BA in Political Economy at Antioch College, his MA in History at Georgetown University, and his Ph.D. in History at Georgetown University. [3]
His book, Let This Voice be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism [4] was published in 2009 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. [1] He is co-editor with Jacqueline Bacon of African Americans and the Haitian Revolution: Selected Essays and Historical Documents (Routledge, January 2010). [1] "James and Esther Jackson: A Personal Introspective" appears in African American Communists and the Origins of the Modern Civil Rights Movement (Routledge, 2009). His "'Friends of the Negro! Fly with me, The path is open to the sea:' Remembering the Haitian Revolution in the History, Music, and Culture of the African American People" in Early American Studies, April 2008, and "The Rise of Abolition" in The Atlantic World, 1450-2000 (Indiana University Press, 2008).
He wrote the liner notes to the Grammy-nominated jazz CD by Charlie Haden and Hank Jones entitled Steal Away: Spirituals, Folks Songs and Hymns (Verve Records, 1995). [5] He wrote the liner notes, as well, to Come Sunday, which was Hank Jones' last recording in the Fall of 2011. [1]
On April 19, 2009, he was inducted into the Washington, D.C. Hall of Fame for his years of service to the people of the nation's capital. [1] He was a 2011– 12 Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Jackson and his wife Laura live in Washington, D.C., with their two children.
Frank Wellington Wess was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. In addition to his extensive solo work, Wess is remembered for his time in Count Basie's band from the early 1950s into the 1960s. Critic Scott Yanow described him as one of the premier proteges of Lester Young, and a leading jazz flutist of his era—using the latter instrument to bring new colors to Basie's music.
Barney Kessel was an American jazz guitarist. Known in particular for his knowledge of chords and inversions and chord-based melodies, he was a member of many prominent jazz groups as well as a "first call" guitarist for studio, film, and television recording sessions. Kessel was a member of the group of session musicians informally known as the Wrecking Crew.
Melbourne Robert Cranshaw was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records to his later involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw performed in Rollins's working band on and off for over five decades, starting with a live appearance at the 1959 Playboy jazz festival in Chicago and on record with the 1962 album The Bridge.
Prince Hall was an American abolitionist and leader in the free black community in Boston. He founded Prince Hall Freemasonry and lobbied for education rights for African American children. He was also active in the back-to-Africa movement.
Eugene Edward "Snooky" Young was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known for his mastery of the plunger mute, with which he was able to create a wide range of sounds.
Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone, he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation, recording more than 100 albums. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern because of his tendency to rarely work with the same musicians for long despite his relentless touring and devotion to the craft. Stitt was sometimes viewed as a Charlie Parker mimic, especially earlier in his career, but gradually came to develop his own sound and style, particularly when performing on tenor saxophone and even occasionally baritone saxophone.
Anthony Benezet was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A prominent member of the abolitionist movement in North America, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. He also founded the first public school for girls in North America and the Negro School at Philadelphia, which operated into the nineteenth century. Benezet was a vegetarian and advocated for the kind treatment of animals, integrating these views into his teachings.
Rayford Whittingham Logan was an African-American historian and Pan-African activist. He was best known for his study of post-Reconstruction America, a period he termed "the nadir of American race relations". In the late 1940s he was the chief advisor to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on international affairs. He was professor emeritus of history at Howard University.
Theodore Marcus "Teddy" Edwards was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Quentin "Butter" Jackson was an American jazz trombonist.
Walid Phares is a Lebanese-American politician, scholar, and conservative pundit.
Randolph Edward "Randy" Weston was an American jazz pianist and composer whose creativity was inspired by his ancestral African connection.
The Religious Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, played a major role in the abolition movement against slavery in both the United Kingdom and in the United States. Quakers were among the first white people to denounce slavery in the American colonies and Europe, and the Society of Friends became the first organization to take a collective stand against both slavery and the slave trade, later spearheading the international and ecumenical campaigns against slavery.
Jimmy Owens is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, arranger, lecturer, and educator. He has played with Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Hank Crawford, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Herbie Mann, among many others. Since 1969, he has led his own group, Jimmy Owens Plus.
James Milton Cleveland was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.
Joseph Benjamin Wilder was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.
Charles Lawrence Persip, known as Charli Persip and formerly as Charlie Persip, was an American jazz drummer.
Clarence Lusane is an American author, activist, lecturer and freelance journalist. His most recent major work is his book The Black History of the White House.
Allen Fromherz is an American historian specializing in the Middle East and Mediterranean. From 2007 to 2008 he was a professor at Qatar University. He joined the faculty of Georgia State University in 2008. Since 2015, Fromherz has served as President of the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS), a part of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
David Cooper was an American farmer, Quaker, pamphleteer and an author of abolitionist ideals in the latter 1700s. A native of New Jersey, he lived the greater part of his life in and around Gloucester and Salem, New Jersey. Cooper was vocal on the issue of slavery and was devoted to the abolitionist movement before, during and after the American Revolution. As a devoted Christian and Quaker, he made numerous comparisons between abolition and Biblical thought in his writings, orations and orations. By submitting pamphlets and petitions, Cooper appealed to and encouraged George Washington and the Congress to make efforts to abolish slavery. He is noted for writing a 22-page anti-slavery tract addressed to the "Rulers of America", which was distributed to members of Congress, a copy of which Washington signed and kept in his personal library.
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