The WPA history of the Negro in Pittsburgh / edited by Laurence A. Glasco.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glasco, Laurence Admiral.

Federal Writers' Project (Pa.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Social conditions.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh--Interviews.

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--History.

Pittsburgh (Pa.).

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Race relations.

Pittsburgh (Pa.)--Biography.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--History.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Race relations.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Biographies.

History.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

vii, 422 pages : map ; 24 cm

Other Title:

History of the Negro in Pittsburgh

Negro in Pittsburgh

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press,

Summary:

"In the 1930s, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project provided work to thousands of unemployed writers, editors, and researchers of all races. The monumental American Guide Series featured books on stats, cities, rivers, and ethnic groups, opening an unprecedented view into the lives of the American people. University of Pittsburgh English professor J. Ernest Wright was selected to compile and edit "The Negro in Pittsburgh." He assembled an impressive, racially mixed team of writers and other professionals - including newspaper editors, teachers, preachers, and social workers - but when a hostile Congress abruptly terminated funding for the program in 1939, the nearly completed project languished, almost forgotten in the depths of the Pennsylvania State Library.

Never before published, The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh combines the original texts with an introduction and explanatory notes by historian Laurence Glasco." "The essays in this pioneering history of African Americans in Pittsburgh were written before World War II and the economic recovery that followed the Great Depression; before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and desegregation: before the destruction of a black cultural locus in the lower Hill District. The book, therefore, not only tells the history of African Americans in Pittsburgh from colonial times to the 1930s, but also captures the perspective of the period in which it was created."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction to the Published Volume

Original Table of Contents

The Shadow of the Plantation

The Negro on the Frontier

The Early Community, 1804-1860

Abolition Years

Civil Rights

The Negro Wage Worker

Church, School and Press

The Later Community

Folkways

Arts and Culture

The People Speak

Appendix 1: Memorial of Pittsburgh's Free Citizens of Color, 1837

Appendix 2: Lewis Woodson's "Birthday Memorandum" of 1856

Appendix 3: Two Poems by George B. Vashon: "Vincent Ogé" and "A Life Day"

Appendix 4: Transcriptions of Selected Newspaper Items.

Notes:

First publication of the unfinished manuscript "The Negro in Pittsburgh" produced by the Federal Writers' Project in Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: WPA history of the Negro in Pittsburgh.

ISBN:

0822942321

9780822942320

9780822961444

082296144X

OCLC:

54454977