Race and meaning : the African American experience in Missouri /

No one has written more about the African American experience in Missouri over the past four decades than Gary Kremer, and now for the first time fourteen of his best articles on the subject are available in one place with the publication of Race and Meaning: The African American Experience in Misso...

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Main Author: Kremer, Gary R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Race and meaning in Missouri history : a personal journey
  • Some aspects of black education in reconstruction Missouri : an address by Richard B. Foster
  • Pennytown : a freedmen's hamlet, 1871-1945
  • "yours for the race" : the life and work of Josephine Silone Yates
  • The world of make-believe : James Milton Turner and Black masonry
  • George Washington Carver's Missouri
  • Nathaniel C. Bruce, Black education, and the "Tuskegee of the Midwest"
  • "The Black people did the work" : African American life in Arrow Rock, Missouri, 1850-1960
  • "Just like the Garden of Eden" : African American community life in Kansas City's Leeds
  • The Whitley sisters remember : living with segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
  • The Missouri Industrial Home for Negro Girls : the 1930s
  • Black culture mecca of the Midwest : Lincoln University, 1921-1955
  • Lake placid : "a recreational center for colored people" in the Missouri Ozarks
  • William J. Thompkins : African American physician, politician, and publisher
  • The Abraham Lincoln legacy in Missouri
  • Epilogue
  • New sources and directions for research on the African American experience in Missouri.