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The uplift generation : cooperation across the color line in early twentieth-century Virginia / Clayton McClure Brooks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Clayton McClure, author.
- Series:
- American South series
- The American South series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Race relations.
- Virginia--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--History--20th century.
- Virginia--Social conditions--20th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 271 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "This book examines interracial cooperation in Virginia in the formative years of Jim Crow, comparing the differing motivations of white reformers and black elites who cooperated on issues such as public education, housing, and sanitation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The uplift generation
- Paternalism and cooperation in the Old Dominion
- Encroaching segregation
- Public welfare and the segregated state
- Women and cooperation
- Race and war
- Contested authority
- Rethinking alliances
- Conclusion: New strategies in a changed world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813939490
- 0813939496
- OCLC:
- 954719959
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