Hopes and expectations
Subtitle: the origins of the black middle class in Hartford
By: Barbara J. Beeching
Publisher: SUNY Press; State University of New York Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781438461656; 9781438461649
Subjects: Race relations; Community life; Economic conditions; Middle class; Social conditions; African Americans; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Migrant of necessity; title: Growing up with the community; title: [1] Expectations rising; title: Family life and racial turmoil; title: Beyond uplift : a new spirit of resistance; title: A black middle class takes shape in wartime; title: [2] Expectations at work; title: Nelson Primus : the artist in Boston; title: Rebecca Primus : the teacher in Royal Oak; title: Addie Brown : the working girl in Hartford; title: [3] Expectations deferred; title: Growth and decline; title: Loss and persistence; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix.