LEADER 03420nam 2200649 450 001 9910825432703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8131-0950-7 010 $a0-8131-4909-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000333954 035 $a(EBL)1915085 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001402861 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11788819 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001402861 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11365041 035 $a(PQKB)11587046 035 $a(OCoLC)605571236 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43864 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1915085 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11011682 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL690842 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1915085 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000333954 100 $a20150227h19981998 uy 0 101 0 $ager 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRiver Jordan $eAfrican American urban life in the Ohio Valley /$fJoe William Trotter, Jr 210 1$aLexington, Kentucky :$cThe University Press of Kentucky,$d1998. 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 225 1 $aOhio River Valley Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-59560-7 311 $a0-8131-2065-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 Citizenship 327 $aPart 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; Y 330 $aSince the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the ""River Jordan,"" symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, A 410 0$aOhio River Valley series. 606 $aAfrican Americans$zOhio River Valley$xSocial conditions 606 $aCity and town life$zOhio River Valley$xHistory 607 $aOhio River Valley$xSocial conditions 607 $aOhio River Valley$xRace relations 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aCity and town life$xHistory. 676 $a820.9/32417/09031 700 $aTrotter$b Joe William$f1945-$01622032 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825432703321 996 $aRiver Jordan$94054864 997 $aUNINA