Race and meaning : the African American experience in Missouri / Gary R. Kremer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kremer, Gary R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Missouri.

African Americans.

African Americans--Missouri--History.

Race relations.

History.

Missouri--Race relations.

Missouri.

Physical Description:

xi, 269 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University Of Missouri Press, [2014]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Some Aspects of Black Education in Reconstruction Missouri: An Address / Richard B. Foster Foster, Richard B. 17

Chapter 2 Pennytown: A Freedmen's Hamlet, 1871-1945 28

Chapter 3 "Yours for the Race": The Life and Work of Josephine Silone Yates 41

Chapter 4 The World of Make-Believe: James Milton Turner and Black Masonry 54

Chapter 5 George Washington Carver's Missouri 68

Chapter 6 Nathaniel C. Bruce, Black Education, and the "Tuskegee of the Midwest" 82

Chapter 7 "The Black People Did the Work": African American Life in Arrow Rock, Missouri, 1850-1960 95

Chapter 8 "Just like the Garden of Eden": African American Community Life in Kansas City's Leeds 113

Chapter 9 The Whitley Sisters Remember: Living with Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri 130

Chapter 10 The Missouri Industrial Home for Negro Girls: The 1930s 142

Chapter 11 Black Culture Mecca of the Midwest: Lincoln University, 1921-1955 158

Chapter 12 Lake Placid: "A Recreational Center for Colored People" in the Missouri Ozarks 171

Chapter 13 William J. Thompkins: African American Physician, Politician, and Publisher 185

Chapter 14 The Abraham Lincoln Legacy in Missouri 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-260) and index.

ISBN:

0826220436

9780826220431

OCLC:

880501007