Add to ORKGAfter the Civil War the African American population in the southern Appalachia city of Asheville experienced significant growth. Drawn by the city’s tourism and hospitality industry, African Americans became important to the city’s service sector economy. Nevertheless, racism ensured their continued isolation from the city’s mainstream. Even before the advent of de facto segregation, African Americans were pushed to the margins, especially politically. This political marginalization made challenging the economic and social status quo difficult, and thus African Americans turned inward, focusing on the development of such key institutions as their churches and schools. Another organization that was important to the development of Ashevi...
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This is the second part of a two-volume study which covers the entire spectrum of the black experien...
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In the seven decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the beginning of the Civil War...
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From their inauspicious beginnings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Mississipp...
Significant numbers of studies have elevated the African American experience in Central Appalachia, ...
This is a study of local black leadership in Alabama and Virginia in the 1880s. It is both an Intell...
Walter B. Hill, a privileged white supporter of the southern interracial cooperation movement, becam...
This dissertation is a cultural and intellectual history of black education, nationalism, and empire...
Whether in slavery or in freedom, African Americans understood the important role education played i...
The marked progress of the Negro in America in which the church has been a factor has been of three ...
This is the second part of a two-volume study which covers the entire spectrum of the black experien...
By the late nineteenth century, white northern missionary societies established a variety of higher ...
When dealing with southern blacks after emancipation, historians have traditionally focused on the p...
This thesis is about African Americans in Memphis working within the constraints of Jim Crow in orde...
The Uplift Generation: Cooperation Across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century Virginia. Clayto...
In the seven decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the beginning of the Civil War...
In his work, The Negro Church in America, published in 1963, E. Franklin Frazier argued that the Bla...
After the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, blacks in the South lost most of the rights achieved dur...
From their inauspicious beginnings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Mississipp...
Significant numbers of studies have elevated the African American experience in Central Appalachia, ...
This is a study of local black leadership in Alabama and Virginia in the 1880s. It is both an Intell...
Walter B. Hill, a privileged white supporter of the southern interracial cooperation movement, becam...
This dissertation is a cultural and intellectual history of black education, nationalism, and empire...
Whether in slavery or in freedom, African Americans understood the important role education played i...
The marked progress of the Negro in America in which the church has been a factor has been of three ...
This is the second part of a two-volume study which covers the entire spectrum of the black experien...