Aristocrats of Color: the Black Elite 1880-1920 (p)
Title | Aristocrats of Color: the Black Elite 1880-1920 (p) PDF eBook |
Author | Willard B. Gatewood |
Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9781610750257 |
Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. -- from publisher description.
Aristocrats of Color
Title | Aristocrats of Color PDF eBook |
Author | Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Aristocrats of Color
Title | Aristocrats of Color PDF eBook |
Author | Willard B. Gatewood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 478 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780608205441 |
In the years following reconstruction, up until 1920, there developed in the United States a small yet self-aware and active aristocracy. detailed account of the most influential segment of the Afro-American community, illuminating distinctions in background, prestige, attitudes, behavior, power, and culture. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Aristocrats of Color
Title | Aristocrats of Color PDF eBook |
Author | Willard B. Gatewood |
Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2000-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1557285934 |
Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of African Americans by looking at the genealogies and occupations of specific families and individuals throughout the United States and their roles in their various communities. --from publisher description.
Aristocrats of Color
Title | Aristocrats of Color PDF eBook |
Author | Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 488 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Aristocrats of Color
Title | Aristocrats of Color PDF eBook |
Author | Willard B. Gatewood |
Publisher | William A. Thomas Braille Bookstore |
Pages | 1512 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781569560402 |
Leading the Race
Title | Leading the Race PDF eBook |
Author | Jacqueline M. Moore |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780813919034 |
Moore reevaluates the role of this black elite by examining how their self-interest interacted with the needs of the black community in Washington, D.C., the center of black society at the turn of the century."--BOOK JACKET.