Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 1423726286
9781423726289
0195362217
9780195362213
9780195065664
0195065662
1280525207
9781280525209
9786610525201
661052520X
0195065662
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, forma.
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| Other form: | Print version: Lane, Roger, 1934- William Dorsey's Philadelphia and ours. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991
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