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050 00 $aF159.P69$bN495 2004
082 00 $a974.8/8600496073$222
245 04 $aThe WPA history of the Negro in Pittsburgh /$cedited by Laurence A. Glasco.
246 30 $aHistory of the Negro in Pittsburgh
246 30 $aNegro in Pittsburgh
260 $aPittsburgh :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $avii, 422 pages :$bmaps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aFirst publication of the unfinished manuscript "The Negro in Pittsburgh" produced by the Federal Writer's Project in Pennsylvania.
500 $a"A John D.S. and Aida C. Truxall book."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 398-406) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe shadow of the plantation -- $gCh. 2.$tThe Negro on the frontier -- $gCh. 3.$tThe early community, 1804-1860 -- $gCh. 4.$tAbolition years -- $gCh. 5.$tCivil rights -- $gCh. 6.$tThe Negro wage worker -- $gCh. 7.$tChurch, school and press -- $gCh. 8.$tThe later community -- $gCh. 12.$tFolkways -- $gCh. 13.$tArts and culture -- $gCh. 14.$tThe people speak -- $gApp. 1.$tMemorial of Pittsburgh's free citizens of color, 1837 -- $gApp. 2.$tLewis Woodson's "birthday memorandum" of 1856 -- $gApp. 3.$tTwo poems by George B. Vashon : "Vincent Oge" and "A life day" -- $gApp. 4.$tTranscriptions of selected newspaper items -- $tMap : African American migration routes to Pittsburgh, 1760-1860 -- $tMap : underground railroad routes in Western Pennsylvania -- $tMap : Pittsburgh downtown, Hill District, and Allegheny City (north side), ca. 1850 -- $tMap : Pittsburgh neighborhoods and settlements, 1865.
520 1 $a"In the 1930s, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project provided work to thousands of unemployed writers, editors, and researchers of all races. The monumental American Guide Series featured books on stats, cities, rivers, and ethnic groups, opening an unprecedented view into the lives of the American people. University of Pittsburgh English professor J. Ernest Wright was selected to compile and edit "The Negro in Pittsburgh." He assembled an impressive, racially mixed team of writers and other professionals - including newspaper editors, teachers, preachers, and social workers - but when a hostile Congress abruptly terminated funding for the program in 1939, the nearly completed project languished, almost forgotten in the depths of the Pennsylvania State Library. Never before published, The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh combines the original texts with an introduction and explanatory notes by historian Laurence Glasco." "The essays in this pioneering history of African Americans in Pittsburgh were written before World War II and the economic recovery that followed the Great Depression; before the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and desegregation: before the destruction of a black cultural locus in the lower Hill District. The book, therefore, not only tells the history of African Americans in Pittsburgh from colonial times to the 1930s, but also captures the perspective of the period in which it was created."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$zPittsburgh$xHistory.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$zPittsburgh$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$zPittsburgh$vInterviews.
651 0 $aPittsburgh (Pa.)$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85102515
651 0 $aPittsburgh (Pa.)$xRace relations.
651 0 $aPittsburgh (Pa.)$vBiography.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$zPennsylvania$xHistory.
700 1 $aGlasco, Laurence Admiral.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80075474
710 2 $aFederal Writers' Project (Pa.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88612260
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0415/2004003404.html
852 00 $bglx$hF159.P69$iN495 2004