Negro building : Black Americans in the world of fairs and museums / Mabel O. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.), author.

Series:

George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Public history--United States.

Public history.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2012]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Focusing on black Americans’ participation in world’s fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived the curatorial content—Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton and Margaret Burroughs. As the 2015 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., approaches, the book reveals why the black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major black historical museums rather than the nation’s capital—until now.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue

1. Progress of a Race: The Black Side’s Contribution to Atlanta’s World’s Fair

2. Exhibiting the American Negro

3. Remembering Emancipation Up North

4. Look Back,March Forward

5. To Make a Black Museum

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520168415

9780520952492

0520952499

OCLC:

1158123225