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William Dorsey’s Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

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Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close have a look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black The united states, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to up to date accomplishments and to up to date problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book’s historical section is in response to hundreds of newly came upon scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia’s first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the very important period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, formally free and increasingly more 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. Within the final chapters Lane outlines the urban situation lately, the strong parallels between past and present that suggest the power of continuity and the equally strong differences that point to the potential of change.

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