"This entrancing book looks at the clash of class and caste
within the black community].... An important reexamination of
African American history."
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The 1893 World s Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the
world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could
participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the
fair by the thousands. "All the World Is Here " examines why they
came and the ways in which they took part in the Exposition. Their
expectations varied. Well-educated, highly assimilated African
Americans sought not just representation but also membership at the
highest level of decision making and planning. They wanted to
participate fully in all intellectual and cultural events. Instead,
they were given only token roles and used as window dressing. Their
stories of pathos and joy, disappointment and hope, are part of the
lost history of "White City." Frederick Douglass, who embodied the
dream that inclusion within the American mainstream was possible,
would never forget America s World s Fair snub."
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