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River Jordan : African American urban life in the Ohio Valley / / Joe William Trotter, Jr



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Autore: Trotter Joe William <1945-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: River Jordan : African American urban life in the Ohio Valley / / Joe William Trotter, Jr Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1998
©1998
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/32417/09031
Soggetto topico: African Americans - Ohio River Valley - Social conditions
City and town life - Ohio River Valley - History
Soggetto geografico: Ohio River Valley Social conditions
Ohio River Valley Race relations
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Citizenship
Part 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
Sommario/riassunto: Since 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
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ISBN: 0-8131-0950-7
0-8131-4909-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Tedesco
Record Nr.: 9910825432703321
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Serie: Ohio River Valley series.