Originally written in 1980 by the late Lorenzo J. Greene, Gary
R. Kremer, and Antonio F. Holland, "Missouri's Black Heritage"
remains the only book-length account of the rich and inspiring
history of the state's African American population. It has now been
revised and updated by Kremer and Holland, incorporating the latest
scholarship into its pages. This edition describes in detail the
struggles faced by many courageous African Americans in their
efforts to achieve full civil and political rights against the
greatest of odds.
Documenting the African American experience from the horrors of
slavery through present-day victories, the book touches on the
lives of people such as John Berry Meachum, a St. Louis slave who
purchased his own freedom and then helped countless other slaves
gain emancipation; Hiram Young, a Jackson County free black whose
manufacturing of wagons for Sante Fe Trail travelers made him a
legendary figure; James Milton Turner, who, after rising from
slavery to become one of the best-educated blacks in Missouri,
worked with the Freedmen's Bureau and the State Department of
Education to establish schools for blacks all over the state after
the Civil War; and Annie Turnbo Malone, a St. Louis entrepreneur
whose business skills made her one of the state's wealthiest
African Americans in the early twentieth century.
A personal reminiscence by the late Lorenzo J. Greene, a
distinguished African American historian whom many regard as one of
the fathers of black history, offers a unique view of Missouri's
racial history and heritage.
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