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America's first Black town : Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915 Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks F549.L87 C48 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Illinois--Lovejoy--History.
- African Americans.
- Brooklyn (Saint Clair County, Ill.)--History.
- Brooklyn (Saint Clair County, Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.
- Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: "founded by chance, sustained by courage"
- From separate settlement to biracial town: Blacks in Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-60
- Uncovering Brooklyn's African American population, 1850-70
- From outlaws to lawmakers, 1870-85
- Mobilizing the race: John L. Evans, decolonization, and consolidation of Black political power, 1886-1906
- Proletarianization, dependency, and underdevelopment, 1890-1910
- The Black municipality and the white colonial county, 1898-1915
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-258) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0252025377 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 41944555
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