" Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter’s ground-breaking study. ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
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 ..."
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