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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Uniform Title:Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora.
Main Author: Mitchell, Faith, 1952- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2023.
Series:Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora.
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Physical Description:226 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 27 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 0 |t Introduction: Emma Crawford's postcard collection --  |t Chapter one: What stories can postcards tell? --  |t Chapter two: The status of the Negro in this country --  |t Chapter three: Fighting for their daily bread --  |t Chapter five: On the road with the minstrel show --  |t Chapter six: Struggling and striving --  |t Epilogue --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography  |t Index. 
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