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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823717603321

Autore

Ballard Allen B

Titolo

Breaching Jericho's walls [[electronic resource] ] : a twentieth-century African American life / / Allen B. Ballard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4384-3624-6

1-4416-8890-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073074811

Soggetti

African Americans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia

Philadelphia (Pa.) Biography

Philadelphia (Pa.) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Breaching Jericho's Walls -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Epilogue -- Notes.

Sommario/riassunto

An award-winning African-American historian and novelist takes the reader on an exciting journey from a segregated Philadephia childhood in the 1930's to mid-century Paris, Moscow, Cambridge, and Manhattan.