Facing freedom : an African American community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow /

Show other versions (1)

The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In this book the author relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated a radica...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thorp, Daniel B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Series:American South series.
Subjects:
African Americans > Virginia > Montgomery County > History.
African Americans > Virginia > Montgomery County > Biography.
Noirs américains > Virginie > Montgomery (Comté) > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Virginie > Montgomery (Comté) > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African Americans.
Montgomery County (Va.) > Biography.
Virginia > Montgomery County.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • People and communities
  • Families in freedom
  • Labor, land, and making a living
  • Schools for the benefit of our children
  • Temples built unto the Lord
  • Government and politics.

Similar Items