William Dorsey''s Philadelphia and Ours - On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

Zusatztext 'Roger Lane ... offers an important and insightful reexamination of Afro-American life in post reconstructionist Philadelphia.'Norman S. Cohen! Occidental College! History! Summer 1992 Klappentext In the crucial decades after the Civil War! Philadelphia was the archetypical city for African-Americans. Not only did it have the largest African-American population in actual numbers! but it was also the preferred destination in the North for blacks migrating from the South after the Civil War. A host of national and even international institutions! churches! lodges and newspapers tied the black leadership together--especially the Grand and United Order of Odd Fellows and the African Methodist Episcopalian Church. Zusammenfassung Focusing on material collected by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian, this study traces the development of one of America's largest black urban communities from the end of the American Civil War, when many blacks fled the South in search of an freedom.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Lane, Roger (Professor of History Lane, Lane Roger
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.1991
• EAN: 9780195065664
• ISBN: 978-0-19-506566-4
• No. of pages: 498
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ethnic Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Urban communities, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General