Emma's postcard album : Black lives in the early twentieth century / Faith Mitchell.

"The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mitchell, Faith, 1952- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Series:Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora.
Subjects:
African Americans > History > 20th century.
African American families > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Social life and customs > 20th century.
African American women > History > 20th century.
African Americans > History > Pictorial works.
African Americans in art > 20th century.
Postcards > United States > History > 20th century.
African American families.
African American women.
African Americans.
African Americans in art.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social life and customs.
Postcards.
United States.
HISTORY / United States / General.
1900-1999
History.
Pictorial works.
Genre:
Pictorial works.
History.
Physical Description:226 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Emma Crawford's postcard collection
  • Chapter one: What stories can postcards tell?
  • Chapter two: The status of the Negro in this country
  • Chapter three: Fighting for their daily bread
  • Chapter five: On the road with the minstrel show
  • Chapter six: Struggling and striving
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography Index.