Before Harlem : : The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I / / Marcy S. Sacks.
In the years between 1880 and 1915, New York City and its environs underwent a tremendous demographic transformation with the arrival of millions of European immigrants, native whites from the rural countryside, and people of African descent from both the American South and the Caribbean. While all...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 8 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Most Fatally Fascinating Thing in America
- Chapter 2. Purged of the Vicious Classes
- Chapter 3. To Check the Menacing Black Hordes
- Chapter 4. Jobs Are Just Chances
- Chapter 5. The Anxiety of Keeping the Home Together
- Chapter 6. Negro Metropolis
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments