William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in AmericaOxford University Press, 15 de ago. de 1991 - 512 páginas 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, formally free and increasingly urban, made the biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences that point to the possibility of change. |
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... Philadelphians Most Noted in the Dorsey Collection 416 APPENDIX IV . " Elite " Philadelphians , 1860s and 1890s 420 Notes 423 Index 459 Illustrations follow page 190 Introduction This book is an attempt to illumine much of ४ Contents.
... Philadelphians Most Noted in the Dorsey Collection 416 APPENDIX IV . " Elite " Philadelphians , 1860s and 1890s 420 Notes 423 Index 459 Illustrations follow page 190 Introduction This book is an attempt to illumine much of ४ Contents.
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... elite , further adding to the city's position as the one with the best perspective from which to view the whole of the contemporary black experience in America . What makes it uniquely possible to recapture at least some of that experi ...
... elite , further adding to the city's position as the one with the best perspective from which to view the whole of the contemporary black experience in America . What makes it uniquely possible to recapture at least some of that experi ...
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... elite . His father , Thomas J. , had escaped from slavery in Maryland before marrying Louise Tobias , a free woman from Pennsylvania , and establishing one of the leading catering firms in the city . The son , with his sisters Sarah and ...
... elite . His father , Thomas J. , had escaped from slavery in Maryland before marrying Louise Tobias , a free woman from Pennsylvania , and establishing one of the leading catering firms in the city . The son , with his sisters Sarah and ...
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... elite . But these and other kinds of news were subjects of longer pieces also , and a number of Afro - American men and women , notably John Stephen Durham , Florence Lewis , and Gertrude Mossell , worked as regular reporters or ...
... elite . But these and other kinds of news were subjects of longer pieces also , and a number of Afro - American men and women , notably John Stephen Durham , Florence Lewis , and Gertrude Mossell , worked as regular reporters or ...
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... elite , organized by his friend and near- exact contemporary " Jake " White , Jr. No Dorsey is listed as either participant or spectator in any sporting item in his collection . But if not an athlete he was proudly black , and so in ...
... elite , organized by his friend and near- exact contemporary " Jake " White , Jr. No Dorsey is listed as either participant or spectator in any sporting item in his collection . But if not an athlete he was proudly black , and so in ...
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OCCUPATIONS AND MAKING A LIVING | 57 |
Illustrations | 190 |
THE WEB OF ORGANIZATION RELIGION RACE CLASS AND RECREATION | 229 |
WILLIAM DORSEYS CITY AND OURS | 335 |
APPENDIX I The William Henry Dorsey Collection at Cheyney State University | 411 |
APPENDIX II Sources for William Dorsey and His Family | 413 |
APPENDIX III Philadelphians Most Noted in the Dorsey Collection | 416 |
APPENDIX IV Elite Philadelphians 1860s and 1890s | 420 |
Notes | 423 |
Index | 459 |
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