William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

by Roger Lane

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Lane 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195065662

ISBN13:9780195065664

Release Date:August 1991

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:512 Pages

Weight:2.05 lbs.

Dimensions:1.6" x 6.4" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

Abolition African-American Studies History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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