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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1998.
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| Series: | Ohio River Valley series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.