Settlin' : stories of Madison's early African American families / Muriel Simms.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simms, Muriel, 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American families--Wisconsin--Madison--Biography.

African American families.

African Americans--Wisconsin--Madison--Biography.

African Americans.

African Americans--Wisconsin--Madison--History--20th century.

Oral history--Wisconsin--Madison.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

vii, 254 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Settling : stories of Madison's early African American families

Place of Publication:

Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2018]

Contents:

A brief history of African American settlement in Madison

Oral histories: Billy McDonald ; Dolores Simms Greene ; Lois Waldon McKnight ; Georgia Harris Henderson ; Geraldine Hopkins Clarke, Jean Hopkins Redwood, and Hannah Hopkins Christian ; James Lincoln Greene ; Ralph Lee Jr. ; Michael Shivers ; Edwin Hill Jr. ; Paul Washington ; Sara Davis Wells ; Marie "Patsy" Caire Thomas ; Edith Lawrence Hilliard ; Pia Kinney James ; Peaches Mosley Lacey ; Margaret Hall Studesville ; Addrena Matthews Squires ; Mary Hanna

Odell Taliaferro and Dimetra Taliaferro Shivers ; Beatrice Russey Gulley ; William Gothard ; Walter Hargrove

Supplemental oral histories: Fran Remeika on Equal Housing ; Joe Cerniglia on the ethnic communities of the Greenbush

Appendix A: Book Lovers Club minutes

Appendix B: Families documented in the 1930 Census.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (243-245) and index.

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

Other Format:

Online version: Simms, Muriel, 1944- Settlin'.

ISBN:

9780870208850

0870208853

OCLC:

1031413172