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An American traveler's guide to black history : also published as A Guide to Negro History in America / by Philip T. Drotning.

LIBRA Rare E185.D72 A4 1968 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Drotning, Phillip T.
Contributor:
Brooke, Edward W. (Edward William), 1919-2015, writer of preface.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--History.
African Americans.
History.
United States--Guidebooks.
United States.
United States--Civilization--African American influences.
Civilization.
Civilization--African American influences.
Genre:
Guidebooks.
History.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 247 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 pages of unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Other Title:
Guide to Negro history in America
Place of Publication:
Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968.
Summary:
Traces the hundreds of black contributions to the progress of America and associated each event with physical locations in each of the fifty states. Records history in monuments, battlefields and buildings that testify to the contribution of blacks to America.
Notes:
Preface (pages v-vi) by Senator Edward W. Brooke.
Includes index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
Other Format:
Online version: Drotning, Phillip T. American traveler's guide to black history.
OCLC:
5168724

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