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1 online resource (xvi, 442 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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"Reprint 2019"--Walter de Gruyter digital title page. |
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"George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies." |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-389) and index. |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1. Progress of a Race: The Black Side's Contribution to Atlanta's World's Fair -- 2. Exhibiting the American Negro -- 3. Remembering Emancipation Up North -- 4. Look Back, March Forward -- 5. To Make a Black Museum -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived the curatorial content--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton and Margaret Burroughs. As the 2015 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., approaches, the book reveals why the black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major black historical museums rather than the nation's capital--until now. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Exhibitions -- History.
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African Americans -- Museums -- History.
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Exhibitions -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Museums -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Public history -- United States -- History.
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Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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Anti-racism -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Race relations -- History.
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ART -- American -- General. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights |
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Anti-racism |
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Memory -- Social aspects |
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Museums -- Social aspects |
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Public history |
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Race relations |
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Slaves -- Emancipation |
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United States |
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Electronic books.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilson, Mabel (Mabel O.). Negro building. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520268425 (DLC) 2011046242 (OCoLC)756166997 |
| ISBN |
9780520952492 (electronic bk.) |
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0520952499 (electronic bk.) |
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9780520268425 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0520268423 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1525/9780520952492 |
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