William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours: On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

by Roger Lane

Book Overview

Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195065662
• ISBN13: 9780195065664
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.6"