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River Jordan : African American urban life in the Ohio Valley /

Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It marked the passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the Industrial age it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. Consequently, the Ohio became known as t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trotter, Joe William, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1998.
Colección:Ohio River Valley series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. African Americans and the Expansion of Commercial and Early Industrial Capitalism, 1790-1860. 1. African Americans, Work, and the "Urban Frontier" 2. Disfranchisement, Racial Inequality, and the Rise of Black Urban Communities
  • pt. 2. Emancipation, Race, and Industrialization, 1861-1914. 3. Occupational Change and the Emergence of a Free Black Proletariat. 4. The Persistence of Racial and Class Inequality: The Limits of Citizenship
  • pt. 3. African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1915-1945. 5. The Expansion of the Black Urban-Industrial Working Class. 6. African Americans, Depression, and World War II.