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Opal Moore

Subject: Literature

(b. 1953), poet, short story writer, essayist, educator, and critic of children's literature. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Opal Moore was influenced from childhood by ...

Anti-Imperialism

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Robert David Johnson

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Foreign Relations

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2021
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
10,627 words

...1. “ Declaration of Independence ,” July 4, 1776; J. M. Opal , “ Common Sense and Imperial Atrocity,” Common-Place 9 (2009) , http://www.common-place.org/vol-09/no-04/forum/opal.shtml; see also Michael A. McDonnell, “ The American War for Independence and the American Revolution ,” Oxford Research Encyclopedias (forthcoming). 2. “ Declaration of Independence ,” July 4, 1776; Robert Remini , “Northwest Ordinance: Bulwark of the Republic,” Indiana Magazine of History 84, no. 1 (1988), 15–24 ; Opal , “ Common Sense ”. 3. On treaty-making, see Jack...

Harlem Renaissance

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Black Women in America (2 ed.)

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2005
Subject:
History, Regional and National History
Length:
5,220 words
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...at the time, the show was considered a triumph primarily for the cast. Critics of the time were hugely impressed by the quality of the performances. Robert Benchley , critic for the Tribune , raved. George Jean Nathan , leading critic of the day, put two of the actors— Opal Cooper and Inez Clough—on his list of the ten best male and the ten best female performers on Broadway that year. Another black woman who set the theatrical stage for the Harlem Renaissance was Rose McClendon . One of the few black women to win recognition on Broadway, she...

African Historical Geography, Landscapes, and Environmental Change

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Katherine Homewood

The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources

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Subject Reference
Current Version:
2019
Subject:
History, Regional and National History, Archaeology
Length:
12,078 words

...from grass, and microscopic fragments of charcoal, all used to reconstruct past environments. Grasses and other monocotyledonous plants often produce characteristically shaped phytoliths of silica and/or calcium, readily preserved and mineralizing, under the right conditions, to opal. All of these components, their presence/absence and proportional contribution to the overall core, constitute proxy measures of environmental characteristics. Total volumes of phytoliths, such as have been retrieved from oceanic cores off west equatorial Africa, may indicate...

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