The Negro in Illinois : the WPA papers / edited by Brian Dolinar.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
  • ©2013.
Description
xlvi, 286 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 27 cm..

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Subject(s)
Editor
Dolinar, Brian [Browse]
Related name
Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois [Browse]
Series
New Black studies series [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-252 and [257]-278) and index.
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.
ISBN
  • 9780252037696 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0252037693 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2012044794
OCLC
814455433
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