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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823263003321

Autore

Lane Roger

Titolo

William Dorsey's Philadelphia and ours : on the past and future of the Black city in America / / Roger Lane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1991

ISBN

0-19-771801-9

1-280-52520-7

0-19-536221-7

1-4237-2628-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (508 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

974.8/1100496073

Soggetti

African Americans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History

Philadelphia (Pa.) History

Philadelphia (Pa.) History Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; PART I: THE MEDIUM AND THE MESSAGE: THE DORSEY COLLECTION AND THE BLACK PORTRAIT IN THE POPULAR PRESS; PART II: OCCUPATIONS AND MAKING A LIVING; PART III: THE WEB OF ORGANIZATION: RELIGION, RACE, CLASS, AND RECREATION; PART IV: WILLIAM DORSEY'S CITY AND OURS; APPENDIX I. The William Henry Dorsey Collection at Cheyney State University; APPENDIX II. Sources for William Dorsey and His Family; APPENDIX III. Philadelphians Most Noted in the Dorsey Collection; APPENDIX IV. ""Elite"" Philadelphians, 1860's and 1890's; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.