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      African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry

      Joe William Trotter

      Brings together nearly three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. It shows how, with deep roots in the antebellum…

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      Building the Black City

      Joe William Trotter, Jr.

      A new way of seeing Black history-the sweeping story of how American cities as we know them developed from the vision, aspirations, and actions of the Black poor.

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      River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley

      Joe William Trotter

      Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class.

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      African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry

      Joe William Trotter

      Brings together three decades of research on the African American experience, class, and race relations in the Appalachian coal industry. The book shows how West Virginia’s Black working class picked…

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      River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley

      Joe William Trotter

      Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class.

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      From a Raw Deal to a New Deal

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      Discusses the experiences of African Americans from the beginning of the depression in 1929 to the end of World War II.

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      Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45

      Joe William Trotter, Jr

      Features a preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee’s black community, and an epilogue…

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      African American Urban History from Past to Future

      Navigates the Complicated History of the City as Both Site of Oppression and Space for Self-Determination

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      The Great Migration in Historical Perspective: New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender

      Grossman, Earl Lewis, Shirley Ann Moore, and Joe William Trotter, Jr.

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      Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America

      Joe William Trotter, Jr.

      The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.

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      Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America

      Joe William Trotter, Jr.

      The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies.

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      Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine

      Otis Trotter

      Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family’s journey north during…

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      Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine

      Otis Trotter

      Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family’s journey north during…

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      Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism

      Joe William Trotter,Dick Gilbreath

      uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social programs’ deep class and gender limitations.

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      Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism

      Joe William Trotter,Dick Gilbreath

      Explores the impact of the National Urban League in Pittsburgh.

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      Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW

      August Meier,Elliott Rudwick

      A classic of labor history, this work is useful reading for historians of labor and race in America, as well those interested in Detroit’s importance as a crucible for American…

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      The Ghetto in Global History: 1500 to the Present

      Across history the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies. This volume is structured around four case studies: the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern…

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      The Ghetto in Global History: 1500 to the Present

      Across history the ghetto has served to maintain social, religious, and racial hierarchies. This volume is structured around four case studies: the first ghettos created for Jews in early modern…

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