Race, social reform, and the making of a middle class : the American Missionary Association and Black Atlanta, 1870-1900 / Joseph O. Jewell.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jewell, Joseph O., 1969-
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Social conditions > 19th century.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Middle class > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 19th century.
Social problems > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 19th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Physical Description:x, 225 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Open and urgent fields of labor" : the American Missionary Association, race, and social reform in the Black South
  • "Up from slavery" : the economic foundations of Atlanta's Black middle class, 1870-1900
  • "Black ivy" : education, race, and class at Storrs Free School and Atlanta University
  • From "black sheep" to "dusky shepherds" : missionary religion and the making of a Black middle-class elite
  • Race, reform and remaking the middle class.