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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and ours : on the past and future of the Black city in America /
Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rura...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, forma. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 483 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1423726286 9781423726289 0195362217 9780195362213 9780195065664 0195065662 1280525207 9781280525209 9786610525201 661052520X |