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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours - On the Past and Future of the Black City in America (Hardcover)
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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours - On the Past and Future of the Black City in America (Hardcover)
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Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a
close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of
black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban
history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to
modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's
historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered
scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black
historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the
critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when
African-Americans, formally free and increasingly urban, made the
biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's
tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail
records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and
public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban
situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that
suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences
that point to the possibility of change.
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