Upbuilding Black Durham : gender, class, and Black community development in the Jim Crow South /
In the 1910s, both W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black m...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill [N.C.] :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | In the 1910s, both W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from eman. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 451 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807877531 0807877530 9781469604923 1469604922 |
