Research Catalog

Title

The Black towns / Norman L. Crockett.

Author

Crockett, Norman L.

Publication

Lawrence : Regents Press of Kansas, c1979.

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Details

Description

xv, 244 p. : ill., diagrs; 23 cm.

Summary

From Appomattox to World War I, blacks continued their quest for a secure position in the American system. The problem was how to be both black and American -- how to find acceptance, or even toleration, in a society in which the boundaries of normative behavior, the values, and the very definition of what it meant to be an American were determined and enforced by whites. A few black leaders proposed self-segregation inside the United States within the protective confines of an all-black community as one possible solution. The black-town idea reached its peak in the fifty years after the Civil War; at least sixty black communities were settled between 1865 and 1915. Norman L. Crockett has focused on the formation, growth and failure of five such communities. These include Nicodemus, Kansas; Mound Bayou, Mississippi; Langston, Oklahoma; and Boley, Oklahoma. The last two offer opportunity to observe aspects of Indian-black relations in this area.

Subject

• 1877-1964
• African Americans > History > 1877-1964
• Black nationalism > United States > History
• Cities and towns > United States > History
• African Americans > Segregation
• Urban African Americans

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 221-231.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lists of illustations -- Promoters and settlers -- Image and ideology -- Politics and discrimination -- Economy and society -- Frustration and failure.

ISBN

0700601856

LCCN

^^^78015099^

OCLC

• 4135324
• SCSB-10486275

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library