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...
Uniform Title: | Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora.
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Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2023.
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Series: | Atlantic migrations and the African diaspora.
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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.