River Jordan : African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Series Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1: African Americans and the Expansion of Commercial and Early Industrial Capitalism, 1790-1860 -- 1. African Americans, Work, and the "Urban Frontier -- 2. Disfranchisement, Racial Inequality, and the Rise of Black Urban Communities -- Part 2: Emancipation, Race, and Industrialization, 1861-1914 -- 3. Occupational Change and the Emergence of a Free Black Proletariat -- 4. The Persistence of Racial and Class Inequality: The Limits of Citizenship -- Part 3: African Americans in the Industrial Age, 1915-1945 -- 5. The Expansion of the Black Urban-Industrial Working Class -- 6. African Americans, Depression, and World War II -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

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