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9780520229204

To Place Our Deeds

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520229204

  • ISBN10:

    0520229207

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr
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Summary

It's a rich look at the working-class black community from 1910 to the civil rights era. Moore offers a rare glimpse of black history from the perspective of ordinary folks, rather than elites.

Author Biography

Shirley Ann Wilson Moors is Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
List of Tables
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1(6)
Richmond before the War: A ``Slow, Gradual and Comforting'' Change
7(33)
Shipyards and Shipbuilders
40(31)
Boomtown
71(23)
Demobilization, Rising Expectations, and Postwar Realities
94(33)
Traditions from Home
127(20)
Epilogue: Community, Success, and Unfulfilled Promise
147(4)
Notes 151(52)
Bibliography 203(16)
Index 219

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