Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

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Within the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the “capital of the black middle class.” African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail products and services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. The use of interviews, narratives, and circle of relatives stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from emancipation to the civil rights era, as freedpeople and their descendants struggled among themselves and with whites to give meaning to black freedom.

Brown paints Durham Within the Jim Crow era as a place of dynamic change where in spite of common aspirations, gender and class conflicts emerged. Placing African American women on the center of the story, Brown describes how black Durham’s a couple of constituencies experienced a range of social conditions. Shifting the historical standpoint away from seeing solidarity as very important to effective struggle or viewing dissent as a measure of weakness, Brown demonstrates that friction among African Americans generated somewhat than depleted energy, sparking many activist initiatives on behalf of the black community.

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