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Title The Negro in Illinois [electronic resource] : the WPA papers / edited by Brian Dolinar.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xlvi, 286 p. : port.
Series New Black studies series
New Black studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents First, the french -- Slavery -- Abolition -- The Underground Railroad -- Lincoln and the Negro -- John Brown's friend -- Leave a summer land behind -- Rising -- Churches -- Soldiers -- Business -- Work -- Iola -- The migrants keep coming -- The exodus train -- Slave market -- Professions -- Health -- Houses -- Social life and social uplift -- Recreation and sports -- Defender -- Politics -- What is Africa to me? -- And churches -- Literature -- Music -- The theatre -- Rhythm.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject African Americans -- Illinois -- History.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions.
Illinois -- History.
Illinois -- Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Dolinar, Brian.
Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Illinois.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780252037696 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780252094958 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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