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Race and Renaissance : African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Regional SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (353 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822977551
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Race and RenaissanceDDC classification:
  • 305.896/073074886
LOC classification:
  • F159
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. War, Politics, and the Creation of the Black Community -- 2. New Migrations, Renaissance I, and the Challenge to Jim Crow -- 3. Pittsburgh's Modern Black Freedom Movement -- 4. In the Shadows of Renaissance II -- 5. Toward the New Century: Forging Their Own Renaissance -- Appendix: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Race and Renaissance presents the first history of African American life in Pittsburgh after World War II. It examines the origins and significance of the second Great Migration, the persistence of Jim Crow into the postwar years, the second ghetto, the contemporary urban crisis, the civil rights and Black Power movements, and the Million Man and Million Woman marches, among other topics.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. War, Politics, and the Creation of the Black Community -- 2. New Migrations, Renaissance I, and the Challenge to Jim Crow -- 3. Pittsburgh's Modern Black Freedom Movement -- 4. In the Shadows of Renaissance II -- 5. Toward the New Century: Forging Their Own Renaissance -- Appendix: Tables -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Race and Renaissance presents the first history of African American life in Pittsburgh after World War II. It examines the origins and significance of the second Great Migration, the persistence of Jim Crow into the postwar years, the second ghetto, the contemporary urban crisis, the civil rights and Black Power movements, and the Million Man and Million Woman marches, among other topics.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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