Black Huntington : an Appalachian story /

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"This project explores the experiences of black migrants and residents in Huntington, West Virginia, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Founded as a transshipment station by financier Collis P. Huntington for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in 1871, Huntington grew from...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fain, Cicero M. III, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1800-1999
African Americans > West Virginia > Huntington > History > 19th century.
African Americans > West Virginia > Huntington > History > 20th century.
African Americans > West Virginia > Huntington > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > West Virginia > Huntington > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 19th century.
Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Virginie-Occidentale > Huntington > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Virginie-Occidentale > Huntington > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Virginie-Occidentale > Huntington > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Virginie-Occidentale > Huntington > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > General.
African Americans
African Americans > Migrations
African Americans > Social conditions
Migration, Internal
United States
West Virginia > Huntington
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The African American experience in Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1825-1870
  • The "grapevine telegraph": post-emancipation black community and early black migrant influx, 1865-1871
  • Into the crucible: the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and the black industrial worker, 1870-1900
  • Community, race, and class: black settlement patterns, 1871-early 1900s
  • Institutional development, public space, and political aspiration in early Huntington, 1870-early 1900s
  • Spreading our wings: Afro-Huntingtonian progress during the era of "benevolent segregation."

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