William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours : On the Past and Future of the Black City in America.
Title:
William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours : On the Past and Future of the Black City in America.
Author:
Lane, Roger.
ISBN:
9780195362213
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (508 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: THE MEDIUM AND THE MESSAGE: THE DORSEY COLLECTION AND THE BLACK PORTRAIT IN THE POPULAR PRESS -- 1. Of Politics, Religion, and Popular Culture -- 2. Of Race, Sex, and Lynching -- PART II: OCCUPATIONS AND MAKING A LIVING -- 3. The "Unskilled" Majority -- 4. Owners, Artisans, and Entrepreneurs -- 5. Education and Educators -- 6. The Learned Occupations -- 7. Politics, Politicians, and Civil Servants -- PART III: THE WEB OF ORGANIZATION: RELIGION, RACE, CLASS, AND RECREATION -- 8. The Churches -- 9. Race Pride and Race Relations -- 10. Organization and Social Class -- 11. Recreation, Entertainment, and Postscriptum to William Henry Dorsey -- PART IV: WILLIAM DORSEY'S CITY AND OURS -- 12. Survivals and Evolution: The Black City Today -- 13. Transition: From There to Here -- 14. A Common Destiny: Prospects for the Black City -- APPENDIX I. The William Henry Dorsey Collection at Cheyney State University -- APPENDIX II. Sources for William Dorsey and His Family -- APPENDIX III. Philadelphians Most Noted in the Dorsey Collection -- APPENDIX IV. "Elite" Philadelphians, 1860s and 1890s -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Illustrations.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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