Blacks in the Adirondacks : A History /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Svenson, Sally E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
African Americans.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > Adirondack, Monts > Biographies.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > Adirondack, Monts > Histoire.
African Americans > New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains > Biography.
African Americans > New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains > History.
New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains.
Adirondack, Monts (N.Y.) > Histoire locale.
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) > History, Local.
Biographies.
Local history.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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