Blacks in the Adirondacks : a history /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Svenson, Sally E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
African Americans > New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains > History.
African Americans > New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains > Biography.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > Adirondack, Monts > Histoire.
Noirs américains > New York (État) > Adirondack, Monts > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
African Americans
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) > History, Local.
Adirondack, Monts (N.Y.) > Histoire locale.
New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains
Biographies
History
Local history
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Slavery: backdrop to the Adirondack story
  • Gerrit Smith: Essex and Franklin County colonists
  • Soldiers of the Civil War
  • Wartime and early postwar migration
  • Making a living
  • Railroad building
  • The summer resort industry
  • Resort entertainment: employees and students
  • Baseball, and a little basketball
  • Saranac Lake and tuberculosis
  • Community life in Saranac Lake
  • Popular culture: professional performers
  • Lake Placid and the John Brown Memorial Association
  • Public and publicly supported institutions
  • Miners of Moriah
  • Pullman porters: railroad stories
  • The twentieth-century military
  • Tourism
  • 1940 to 1950 and beyond.

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