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Language: en
Pages: 450
Authors: Quintard Taylor
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that
The Forging of a Black Community
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Quintard Taylor
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-07 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to
Freedom's Racial Frontier
Language: en
Pages: 508
Authors: Herbert G. Ruffin
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in th
The American West: A New Interpretive History
Language: en
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Authors: Robert V. Hine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-08 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox his
Race Work
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Matthew C. Whitaker
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-08-01 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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Nearly sixty years ago, Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale descended upon the isolated, somewhat desolate, and entirely segregated city of Phoenix, Arizona, in search