Blacks in the westward movement / organized by the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Smithsonian Institution ; circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Anacostia Neighborhood Museum.

Contributor:

Ebon Research Systems, compiler.

Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--Exhibitions.

African Americans.

Pioneers, Black--West (U.S.)--19th century.

Pioneers, Black.

History.

West (U.S.)--History.

West (U.S.).

West United States.

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2).

Local Subjects:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies 1 & 2).

Genre:

Government publications.

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Physical Description:

57 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975.

Contents:

Part I. Early Explorations. Early Explorers of the Americas' Explorers from the Old world; Estevanico; Dutch and English Slave Traders in the New World

Part II. Fur Traders and Mountain Men. Trappers and Traders; The Bongas; Edward Rose; James Beckwourth; Jean Baptiste Point du Sable; The Haitian Revolution; The Louisiana Purchase; The Lewis and Clark Expedition; Jacob Dodson

Part III. Trail of Tears. Blacks among the Indians; Indian Movement Westward; Andrew Jackson; Florida; The Seminole Wars; Chief Abraham

Part IV. The Black Exodus. The Missouri Compromise; The Dred Scott Decision; John Brown's Raids; The Civil War; The Emancipation Proclamation; Reconstruction; The Black Exodus

Part V. Texas. Early Settlers; Black Texas Heroes

Part VI. California. The Far West; California; William Alexander Leidesdorff; Mary Ellen (Mammy) Pleasant

Part VII. The Last Frontier. The Pacific Northwest; George Washington Bush; George Washington; Other Areas of the Last Frontier

Part VIII. The Buffalo Soldiers. Black Recruits; Seminole-Negro Scouts; Isaiah Dorman

Cattlemen: Lawful and Lawless. Black Cowboys on the Trail; Bose Ikard; Nat Love; Bill Pickett; Outlaws and Lawmen

Part X. Enterprising Blacks.

Notes:

"Smithsonian Institution Press publication number 6090"--Title page verso.

"Compiled by Ebon Research Systems and Sagittarius. Designed by Gerald Landon"--Title page verso.

"Cover: Louisiana freedmen en route to Kansas, fleeing the yellow-fever epidemic. Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy 1 has February 16, 1992 issue of The Mini Page laid in.

Other Format:

Online version: Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Blacks in the westward movement.

OCLC:

2135817