River Jordan(Updated) African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley (Ohio River Valley) by JoeWilliamTrotter Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Pr Of Kentucky ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-2065-2, ISBN: 0-8131-2065-9
"Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It marked the passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the Industrial age it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. Consequently, the Ohio became known as the "River Jordan, " symbolizing the path to the promised land. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter tr ..."
"This collection serves as the single most comprehensive treatment of Pennsylvania's black history yet to appear in print. ―ChoiceContributors are Elijah Anderson, John F. Bauman, R. J. M. Blackett, John E. Bodnar, Carolyn Leonard Carson, Dennis C. Dickerson, Gerald G. Eggert, V. P. Franklin, Laurence Glasco, Peter Gottlieb, Theodore Hershberg, Leroy T. Hopkins, Norman P. Hummon, Emma Jones Lapsansky, Janice Sumler Lewis, Frederic Miller ..."
"Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of ArtWith an introduction by Deborah Willis The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles Teenie Harris (1908 1998). But it s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, friend ..."
"Published in cooperation with Carnegie Museum of Art With an introduction by Deborah Willis The famous faces of Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson, and John F. Kennedy appear among the nearly eighty thousand photographs of Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998). But it’s in the images of other, ordinary people and neighborhoods that Harris shows us a city and an era teeming with energy, culture, fri ..."
Race and Renaissance(1st Edition) African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II (John D.S. and Aida C. Truxall Books) by JoeWilliamTrotter, Professor Jared N. Day Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4391-4, ISBN: 0-8229-4391-3
"African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s, Pittsburgh has been a force for change in American race and class relations. "Race and Renaissance" presents the first history of African A ..."
"Historians have devoted surprisingly little attention to African American urban history of the postwar period, especially compared with earlier decades. Correcting this imbalance, African American Urban History since World War II features an exciting mix of seasoned scholars and fresh new voices whose combined efforts provide the first comprehensive assessment of this important subject.           The first of this volumeâs ..."
African-American Workers An Urban Perspective, from the American Revolution to the Present by JoeWilliamTrotter Hardcover, Published 2008 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00070-8, ISBN: 0-465-00070-3
African-American Workers An Urban Perspective from the American Revolution to the Present by JoeWilliamTrotter Paperback, Published 2005 by Perseus Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00178-1, ISBN: 0-465-00178-5
"As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians. The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington. The coalfields of McDowell County were among the richest seams in the nation. As Garrison makes clear, the backbone of the early mining work force-those who laid the railroad tracks, ma ..."
"As a black Appalachian woman, Memphis Tennessee Garrison belonged to a demographic category triply ignored by historians.The daughter of former slaves, she moved to McDowell County, West Virginia, at an early age and died at ninety-eight in Huntington. The coalfields of McDowell County were among the richest seams in the nation. As Garrison makes clear, the backbone of the early mining work force—those who laid the railroad tracks, mann ..."
"This narrative text explores the African American experience throughout United States history, with particular emphasis on work, community, and recurring discrimination. Unlike most other texts dealing with this subject matter, The African American Experience provides equal emphasis on the North and South. The text includes an extensive program of art, photos, and maps."Changing Historical Interpretations" features explore the changes t ..."
Coal, Class, and Color Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (Blacks in the New World) by JoeWilliamTrotter Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-06119-6, ISBN: 0-252-06119-5
"From the rear cover of this 290 page book: "How were southern blacks transformed from rural agricultural workers into members of the industrial working class? Joe Williams Trotter, Jr., examines the unique experiences of black coal miners in southern West Virginia between World War I and the Great Depression, showing how the subtle interplay of race, class, and region altered black people's personal and collective existence. Proletarian ..."
Coal, Class, and Color Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32 (Blacks in the New World) by JoeWilliamTrotter Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of Illinois Press ISBN-13: 978-0-252-01707-0, ISBN: 0-252-01707-2