River Jordan (eBook)

African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley

Joe William Trotter (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
218 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
9780813184319 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;River Jordan,"e; 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, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Ohio River Valley Series
• Reihe/Serie: Ohio River Valley Series
• Reihe/Serie: Ohio River Valley Series
• Zusatzinfo: 26 illustrations
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: Barbershop • Ben Careathers • Black Community • black urban communities • Carl O'Neal Dickerson • Charles W. Anderson • Cincinnati • Colored Women's Clubs • Daisy Lampkin • Evansville • Fighters baseball • Fountain Lewis Sr. • James Hathaway Robinson • Jennie D. Porter • Jim Crow South • Little Bucktown • low-income public housing • Martin Robison Delany • peter clark • racial inequality • Reverend J. D. Rouse • Reverend Junius Caesar Austin • Sallie Wyatt Stewart • Steve Nelson • urban frontier • Wendell P. Dabney • William Glover • William Ware
• ISBN-13: 9780813184319 / 9780813184319