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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours

On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

By: Roger Lane

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Hardcover | 15 August 1991

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Lane here illuminates the African-American experience through a close look at a single city, once the metropolitan headquarters of black America, now typical of many. He recognizes that urban history offers more clues, both to modern accomplishments and to modern problems, than the dead past of rural slavery. The book's historical section is based on hundreds of newly discovered scrapbooks kept by William Henry Dorsey, Philadelphia's first black historian. These provide an intimate and comprehensive view of the critical period between the Civil War and about 1900, when African-Americans, formally free and increasingly urban, made the biggest educational and occupational gains in history. Dorsey's tens of thousands of newspaper clippings and other sources, detail records of high culture and low, success and scandal, personal and public life. In the final chapters Lane outlines the urban situation today, the strong parallels between past and present that suggest the power of
continuity and the equally strong differences that point to the possibility of change.

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'Roger Lane ... offers an important and insightful reexamination of Afro-American life in post reconstructionist Philadelphia.' Norman S. Cohen, Occidental College, History, Summer 1992

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Introduction	p. xi
The Medium and the Message: The Dorsey Collection and the Black Portrait in the Popular Press
Of Politics, Religion, and Popular Culture	p. 5
Of Race, Sex, and Lynching	p. 33
Occupations and Making a Living
The "Unskilled" Majority	p. 63
Owners, Artisans, and Entrepreneurs	p. 98
Education and Educators	p. 134
The Learned Occupations	p. 166
Politics, Politicians, and Civil Servants	p. 197
The Web of Organization: Religion, Race, Class, and Recreation
The Churches	p. 231
Race Pride and Race Relations	p. 253
Organization and Social Class	p. 279
Recreation, Entertainment, and Postscriptum to William Henry Dorsey	p. 309
William Dorsey's City and Ours
Survivals and Evolution: The Black City Today	p. 337
Transition: From There to Here	p. 354
A Common Destiny: Prospects for the Black City	p. 374
The William Henry Dorsey Collection at Cheyney State University	p. 411
Sources for William Dorsey and His Family	p. 413
Philadelphians Most Noted in the Dorsey Collection	p. 416
"Elite" Philadelphians, 1860s and 1890s	p. 420
Notes	p. 423
Index	p. 459
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William Dorsey's Philadelphia and Ours

On the Past and Future of the Black City in America

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