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Genre/Form: | Electronic book Electronic books Archives History Sources |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Lane, Roger, 1934- William Dorsey's Philadelphia and ours. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 (DLC) 90041311 |
Named Person: | William Henry Dorsey; William Henry Dorsey |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger Lane |
ISBN: | 1423726286 9781423726289 0195362217 9780195362213 9780195065664 0195065662 1280525207 9781280525209 9786610525201 661052520X |
OCLC Number: | 191929764 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 483 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) |
Contents: | Introduction; PART I: THE MEDIUM AND THE MESSAGE: THE DORSEY COLLECTION AND THE BLACK PORTRAIT IN THE POPULAR PRESS; PART II: OCCUPATIONS AND MAKING A LIVING; PART III: THE WEB OF ORGANIZATION: RELIGION, RACE, CLASS, AND RECREATION; PART IV: WILLIAM DORSEY'S CITY AND OURS; 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. |
Responsibility: | Roger Lane. |
Abstract:
Focusing on material collected by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian, this study traces the development of one of America's largest black urban communities from the end of the American Civil War, when many blacks fled the South in search of an freedom.
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'Roger Lane ... offers an important and insightful reexamination of Afro-American life in post reconstructionist Philadelphia.'Norman S. Cohen, Occidental College, History, Summer 1992
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- Dorsey, William Henry -- Archives.
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
- African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- Sources.
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History.
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Sources.
- HISTORY -- State & Local.
- HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
- Dorsey, William Henry.
- African Americans.
- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Black persons -- History
- Pennsylvania