Negro building : Black Americans in the world of fairs and museums / Mabel O. Wilson.

Author
Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
  • ©2012
Description
xvi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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      Summary note
      Traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, giving voice to the figures who conceived the curatorial content--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton, and Margaret Burroughs.
      Notes
      "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • Prologue
      • Progress of a Race : The Black Side's Contribution to Atlanta's World's Fair
      • Exhibiting the American Negro
      • Remembering Emancipation Up North
      • Look Back, March Forward
      • To Make a Black Museum
      • Epilogue.
      ISBN
      • 9780520268425 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
      • 0520268423 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      2011046242
      OCLC
      756166997
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