River Jordan : African American urban life in the Ohio Valley / Joe William Trotter, Jr.
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...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Trotter, Joe William, 1945- |
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| Format: | eBook
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1998.
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| Series: | Ohio River Valley series.
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| Subjects: |
HISTORY
> United States
> State & Local
> Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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| Online Access: | Click for online access
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