ISBN:
9780826273369
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082627336X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8960730778
Keywords:
African Americans Missouri
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African Americans History
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Missouri
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Missouri
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African Americans History
;
African Americans
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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African Americans
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Race relations
;
History
;
Missouri Race relations
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Missouri
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Race and meaning in Missouri history : a personal journey -- Some aspects of black education in reconstruction Missouri : an address by Richard B. Foster -- Pennytown : a freedmen's hamlet, 1871-1945 -- "yours for the race" : the life and work of Josephine Silone Yates -- The world of make-believe : James Milton Turner and Black masonry -- George Washington Carver's Missouri -- Nathaniel C. Bruce, Black education, and the "Tuskegee of the Midwest" -- "The Black people did the work" : African American life in Arrow Rock, Missouri, 1850-1960 -- "Just like the Garden of Eden" : African American community life in Kansas City's Leeds -- The Whitley sisters remember : living with segregation in Kansas City, Missouri -- The Missouri Industrial Home for Negro Girls : the 1930s -- Black culture mecca of the Midwest : Lincoln University, 1921-1955 -- Lake placid : "a recreational center for colored people" in the Missouri Ozarks -- William J. Thompkins : African American physician, politician, and publisher -- The Abraham Lincoln legacy in Missouri -- Epilogue -- New sources and directions for research on the African American experience in Missouri.
Abstract:
No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time fourteen of his best articles on the subject are available in one place with the publication of Race and Meaning: The African American Experience in Missouri. By placing the articles in chronological order of historical events rather than by publication date, Kremer combines them into one detailed account that addresses issues such as the transition from slavery to freedom for African Americans in Missouri, all-black rural communities, and the lives of African Americans seeking new opportunities in Missouri's cities. In addition to his previously published articles, Kremer includes a personal introduction revealing how he first became interested in researching African American history and how his education at Lincoln University--and specifically the influence of his mentor, Lorenzo Greene--helped him to realize his eventual career path. Race and Meaning makes a collection of largely unheard stories spanning much of Missouri history accessible for the first time in one place, allowing each article to be read in the context of the others, and creating a whole that is much greater than the sum of its parts. Whether you are a student, researcher, or general reader, this book will be essential to anyone with an interest in Missouri history
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