Civil Rights
Movements, leaders, victories and the continuing fight for equality.
q2K BHP
Black History Portal
THE BHP WIRE —
HIDDEN TRUTHS
What's New!
Explore the people, places, events, achievements, struggles and stories that shaped our journey.
Movements, leaders, victories and the continuing fight for equality.
Innovation, patents, science, technology and world-changing contributions.
Pioneers, champions, Negro Leagues, records, activism and excellence.
Meet the people whose lives, choices and achievements shaped the journey.
Black towns, communities, institutions and places where history happened.
Moments that changed communities, movements, institutions and the nation.
Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Pronunciation | /ˈpɛri/ |
|---|---|
| Gender | Unisex |
| Language | English |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | From the Latin language, related to Peregrine, meaning "traveler" or "pilgrim" |
| Region of origin | English language |
| Other names | |
| Variant forms | Perrey, Perrie, Perri |
| Related names | Perry (surname), Parry, Peregrine, Perdita |
| Popularity | see popular names |
Perry is a unisex given name.
Source: Wikipedia. Article content is retrieved live through the MediaWiki API.
Perry Meisel is an American writer and former Professor of English at New York University. He taught at New York University for over forty years prior to his retirement in 2016 and has written on literature, music, psychoanalysis, theory, and culture since the 1970s. His articles have appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, October, The Nation, The Atlantic, and many other publications. His books include The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan, The Literary Freud, The Cowboy and the Dandy, The Myth of the Modern, The Absent Father, and Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Repressed. He is co-editor, with Haun Saussy, of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics, and co-editor, with Walter Kendrick, of Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924–25. He is also editor of Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays. He received his B.A., M. Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale.
Meisel or Meisels is a surname. It has two main derivations, 1) from Yiddish mayzel 'little mouse,' especially in and from Southern Germany, and 2) Middle German meizel, meisel 'chisel,' a metonymic name for a woodcarver, stone mason, or surgeon. Families with the latter meaning can be German Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Notable people with the surname include: Dominik Meisel (born 1999), German footballer Edmund Meisel (1894–1930), Austrian-born German composer Hana Meisel (1883–1972), Russian-born Israeli agronomist and Zionist Hilde Meisel (1914–1945), German Resistance writer Johanna Meisel, German film editor John Meisel (1923–2025), Austrian-born Canadian political scientist Jürgen M. Meisel (born 1944), German romanist and linguist Kurt Meisel (1912–1994), Austrian actor and film director Louis K. Meisel (born 1942), American photorealist art dealer Mordecai Meisel (1528–1601), Czech philanthropist and communal leader Noah Meisel (1891–1956), Russian-born Latvian politician Perry Meisel (born 1949), American writer and linguist Steven Meisel (born 1954), American fashion photographer Wilhelm Meisel (1891–1974), German Kriegsmarine admiral Wilhelm Meisel (Silesian Uprisings veteran) (1904–2009), Polish soldier, last known surviving veteran of the Silesian Uprisings Will Meisel (1897–1967), German composer Grete Meisel-Hess (1879–1922), Austrian feminist author Dow Ber Meisels (1798–1870), Polish rabbi and nationalist Esther Meisels (born 1995), Israeli cyclist Samuel J. Meisels (born 1945), American child development scholar Tamar Meisels, Israeli political scientist
Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia is a book by Julia Kristeva, published in 1989. It was translated from French to English by Leon S. Roudiez. In his review in The New York Times, Perry Meisel called the book "an absorbing meditation on depression and melancholia".
Perry is a unisex given name.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →Mae Jemison, aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.