America's first Black town : Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915 / Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, 1953-
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2000], ©2000.
Subjects:	Brooklyn (Saint Clair County, Ill.) > History. African Americans > Illinois > Lovejoy > History.
Physical Description:	xiv, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction: Brooklyn in historical and theoretical context
From separate settlement to biracial town: Blacks in Brooklyn, 1830-60
Uncovering Brooklyn's African American population, 1850
From outlaws to lawmakers, 1870-80
Mobilizing the race: John Evans and Black political power, 1878-1906
Proletarianization, dependency, and underdevelopment, 1886-1910
The Black municipality and the white colonial county, 1898-1915.