LEADER 03047nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910449707703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-52520-7 010 $a0-19-536221-7 010 $a1-4237-2628-6 035 $a(CKB)1000000000028596 035 $a(EBL)241551 035 $a(OCoLC)191929764 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000272088 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11206550 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272088 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10305401 035 $a(PQKB)11411486 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC241551 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL241551 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10087121 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52520 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000028596 100 $a19900621d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWilliam Dorsey's Philadelphia and ours$b[electronic resource] $eon the past and future of the Black city in America /$fRoger Lane 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1991 215 $a1 online resource (508 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-506566-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aLane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, forma 606 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$vSources 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$vSources 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 676 $a974.8/1100496073 700 $aLane$b Roger$0891227 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910449707703321 996 $aWilliam Dorsey's Philadelphia and ours$91990557 997 $aUNINA