Details

Subject(s)

• African Americans—Illinois—History [Browse]
• African Americans—Illinois—Social conditions [Browse]
• African Americans—Illinois—Chicago—History [Browse]
• African Americans—Illinois—Chicago—Social conditions [Browse]
• Illinois—History [Browse]
• Illinois—Social conditions [Browse]
• Chicago (Ill.)—History [Browse]
• Chicago (Ill.)—Social conditions [Browse]

Related name

• Dolinar, Brian [Browse]
• Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois [Browse]

Series

• New Black studies. [More in this series]
• New Black studies series [More in this series]

Summary note

A major document of African American participation in the struggles of the Depression, 'The Negro in Illinois' was produced by a special division of the Illinois Writers' Project, one of President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration programs.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• First, the french
• Slavery
• Abolition
• The Underground Railroad
• Lincoln and the Negro
• John Brown's friend
• Leave a summer land behind
• Rising
• Churches
• Soldiers
• Business
• Work
• Iola
• The migrants keep coming
• The exodus train
• Slave market
• Professions
• Health
• Houses
• Social life and social uplift
• Recreation and sports
• Defender
• Politics
• What is Africa to me?
• And churches
• Literature
• Music
• The theatre
• Rhythm.

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ISBN

• 0-252-08093-9
• 0-252-09495-6

OCLC

• 851160528
• 850941653

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