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River Jordan African American urban life in the Ohio Valley / Joe William Trotter, Jr.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, (c)1998.Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813149097
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F520 .R584 1998
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
African Americans and the Expansion of Commercial and Early Industrial Capitalism, 1790-1860. -- African Americans, Work, and the "Urban Frontier" -- Disfranchisement, Racial Inequality, and the Rise of Black Urban Communities -- Emancipation, Race, and Industrialization, 1861-1914. -- Occupational Change and the Emergence of a Free Black Proletariat. -- The Persistence of Racial and Class Inequality: The Limits of Citizenship -- African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1915-1945. -- The Expansion of the Black Urban-Industrial Working Class. -- African Americans, Depression, and World War II.
Subject: Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It marked the passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the Industrial age it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. Consequently, the Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement. River Jordan broadens our understanding of the black experience in the United States and illuminates the impact of the Ohio River in the context of the larger American story.
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African Americans and the Expansion of Commercial and Early Industrial Capitalism, 1790-1860. -- African Americans, Work, and the "Urban Frontier" -- Disfranchisement, Racial Inequality, and the Rise of Black Urban Communities -- Emancipation, Race, and Industrialization, 1861-1914. -- Occupational Change and the Emergence of a Free Black Proletariat. -- The Persistence of Racial and Class Inequality: The Limits of Citizenship -- African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1915-1945. -- The Expansion of the Black Urban-Industrial Working Class. -- African Americans, Depression, and World War II.

Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It marked the passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the Industrial age it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. Consequently, the Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement. River Jordan broadens our understanding of the black experience in the United States and illuminates the impact of the Ohio River in the context of the larger American story.

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