River Jordan : African American urban life in the Ohio Valley

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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Main Author: Trotter, Joe William, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1998.
Series:Ohio River Valley series.
Subjects:
African Americans > Ohio River Valley > Social conditions.
City and town life > Ohio River Valley > History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
African Americans > Social conditions
City and town life
Race relations
Social conditions
Stadt
Soziale Situation
Steden.
Noirs américains > États-Unis > Ohio, Vallée de l' > Conditions sociales.
Vie urbaine > Ohio, Vallée de l' > Histoire.
Ohio River Valley > Social conditions.
Ohio River Valley > Race relations.
Ohio River Valley
Ohio-Gebiet
Schwärze
History
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. African Americans and the Expansion of Commercial and Early Industrial Capitalism, 1790-1860. 1. African Americans, Work, and the "Urban Frontier" 2. Disfranchisement, Racial Inequality, and the Rise of Black Urban Communities
  • pt. 2. Emancipation, Race, and Industrialization, 1861-1914. 3. Occupational Change and the Emergence of a Free Black Proletariat. 4. The Persistence of Racial and Class Inequality: The Limits of Citizenship
  • pt. 3. African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1915-1945. 5. The Expansion of the Black Urban-Industrial Working Class. 6. African Americans, Depression, and World War II.

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