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Two centuries of Black Louisville : a photographic history / Mervin Aubespin, Kenneth Clay, J. Blaine Hudson.
LIBRA - Rare F489.L89 N429 2011 Banks copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aubespin, Mervin.
- Clay, Kenneth, author.
- Hudson, J. Blaine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville--History--Portraits.
- African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Louisville (Ky.)--History--Pictorial works.
- Louisville (Ky.).
- Louisville (Ky.)--History.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- Kentucky--Louisville.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- History.
- Portraits.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copies (1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville : Butler Books, 2011.
- Summary:
- "The purpose of [this book] is to chronicle the experiences of African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky, in words and images"--Page [7].
- Contents:
- Part 1. Black Louisville to 1865. Settlement; Slavery; African Americans in Early Louisville; The Free Black Community; Religion; Education; Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad; Intro- and Inter-Racial Relations; Violence and Resistance; The Civil War
- Part 2: Community and the Color Line: 1865-1930. Reconstruction; Segregation; Education; African American Culture and Community Life; The "Golden Age of Black Business"; African American Women and Community Uplift; Politics and Insurgency
- Part 3: A Community in Transition: 1930-1960. The Great Depression; World War II; African American Culture and "Old Walnut Street"; Black Louisville on the Threshold of Change: A Community of Contrasts; The Movement before the Movement
- Part. 4: The Civil Rights Era in Louisville : 1960-1985. Civil Rights; Urban Renewal; Open Housing; Black Power; Busing; Between Two Worlds: Work, Business and Community after Segregation; Retrenchment and the Reagan Era: Politics, PAC-10 and Merger; End of an Era
- Part 5: The More Things Change: 1985-Present. Art and Culture; Dimensions of Community Life; Education; African Americans and the Criminal Justice System; Race, Class and Community
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Book design by Scott Stortz.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-277) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copies (1 & 2) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copies (1 & 2) have dust jackets retained.
- Banks Collection copy 1 has front page article from Louisville Times laid in.
- Banks Collection copy 2 has silver medallion of the Nautilus Silver Book Award for being one of the best multicultural books of 2012 and a gold medallion for excellence in the Regional Non-Fiction category of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards on dust jacket.
- Banks Collection copy 2 is "Second Printing, 2013".
- ISBN:
- 9781935497363
- 1935497367
- OCLC:
- 720273613
- Publisher Number:
- 9781935497363 54500
- Online:
- http://nkaa.uky.edu/record.php?note_id=680
- https://louisville.edu/freedompark/j.-blaine-hudson-an-inspiration
- http://www.butlerbooks.com/blacklouisville.html
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