03420nam 2200649 450 991082543270332120200520144314.00-8131-0950-70-8131-4909-6(CKB)3710000000333954(EBL)1915085(SSID)ssj0001402861(PQKBManifestationID)11788819(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001402861(PQKBWorkID)11365041(PQKB)11587046(OCoLC)605571236(MdBmJHUP)muse43864(Au-PeEL)EBL1915085(CaPaEBR)ebr11011682(CaONFJC)MIL690842(MiAaPQ)EBC1915085(EXLCZ)99371000000033395420150227h19981998 uy 0gerur|n|---|||||txtccrRiver Jordan African American urban life in the Ohio Valley /Joe William Trotter, JrLexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,1998.©19981 online resource (217 p.)Ohio River Valley SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-59560-7 0-8131-2065-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Series Foreword; Preface; Part 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; Part 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 CitizenshipPart 3: African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1915-19455. The Expansion of the Black Urban-Industrial Working Class; 6. African Americans, Depression, and World War II; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; YSince the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a 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. The Ohio became known as the ""River Jordan,"" symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, AOhio River Valley series.African AmericansOhio River ValleySocial conditionsCity and town lifeOhio River ValleyHistoryOhio River ValleySocial conditionsOhio River ValleyRace relationsAfrican AmericansSocial conditions.City and town lifeHistory.820.9/32417/09031Trotter Joe William1945-1622032MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825432703321River Jordan4054864UNINA