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Paperback Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America Book
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ISBN: 0190249676

ISBN13: 9780190249670

Black Citymakers: How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

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W.E.B. DuBois immortalized Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward neighborhood, one of America's oldest urban black communities, in his 1899 sociological study The Philadelphia Negro. In the century after DuBois's study, however, the district has been transformed into a largely white upper middle class neighborhood.

Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward, documenting a century of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led...

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