Emma's Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century

by Faith Mitchell

Book Overview

BCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner

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 with friends and family members and collected the cards she received...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496843150
• ISBN13: 9781496843159
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 10.3"