River Jordan : African American urban life in the Ohio Valley / Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trotter, Joe William, Jr., 1945- author.

Series:

Ohio River Valley series.

Ohio River Valley Series

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Ohio River Valley--Social conditions.

African Americans.

City and town life--Ohio River Valley--History.

City and town life.

Ohio River Valley--Social conditions.

Ohio River Valley.

Ohio River Valley--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ""River Jordan,"" 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, A

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Series Foreword; Preface; Part 1: African Americans and the Expansion of Commercial and Early Industrial Capitalism, 1790-1860; 1. African Americans, Work, and the ""Urban Frontier""; 2. Disfranchisement, Racial Inequality, and the Rise of Black Urban Communities; Part 2: Emancipation, Race, and Industrialization, 1861-1914; 3. Occupational Change and the Emergence of a Free Black Proletariat; 4. The Persistence of Racial and Class Inequality: The Limits of Citizenship

Part 3: African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1915-19455. The Expansion of the Black Urban-Industrial Working Class; 6. African Americans, Depression, and World War II; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-0950-7

0-8131-4909-6

OCLC:

605571236