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Negro building : Black Americans in the world of fairs and museums / Mabel O. Wilson.
Author
Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.)
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
©2012
Description
xvi, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
E185.53.A1 W55 2012
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Subject(s)
African Americans
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Exhibitions
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History
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African Americans
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Museums
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History
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Exhibitions
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Social aspects
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United States
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History
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Museums
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Social aspects
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United States
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History
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Memory
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Social aspects
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United States
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History
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Public history
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United States
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History
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Enslaved persons
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Emancipation
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United States
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African Americans
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Civil rights
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History
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Anti-racism
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United States
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History
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United States
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Race relations
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History
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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.
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ISBN
9780520268425 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0520268423 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2011046242
OCLC
756166997
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