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Author Beeching, Barbara.

Title Hopes and expectations : the origins of the black middle class in Hartford, Connecticut / Barbara J. Beeching.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue -- Migrant of necessity -- Growing up with the community -- [1] Expectations rising -- Family life and racial turmoil -- Beyond uplift : a new spirit of resistance -- A black middle class takes shape in wartime -- [2] Expectations at work -- Nelson Primus : the artist in Boston -- Rebecca Primus : the teacher in Royal Oak -- Addie Brown : the working girl in Hartford -- [3] Expectations deferred -- Growth and decline -- Loss and persistence -- Epilogue -- Appendix.
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Subject Primus, Nelson, 1842-1916.
Primus, Nelson, 1842-1916.
Primus, Rebecca, 1836-1932.
Primus, Rebecca, 1836-1932.
Brown, Addie.
Brown, Addie.
African Americans -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Social conditions.
African Americans.
Connecticut -- Hartford.
Social conditions.
African Americans -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Middle class -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History.
Middle class.
History.
Community life -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History.
Community life.
African Americans -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Hartford (Conn.) -- Economic conditions.
Hartford (Conn.) -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Beeching, Barbara. Hopes and expectations. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016 9781438461656 (DLC) 2015036648 (OCoLC)932463317
ISBN 9781438461663 (electronic book)
1438461666 (electronic book)
9781438461656
1438461658