The African American Urban Experience
Subtitle: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present
Contributors: Joe W. Trotter (Editor); Earl Lewis (Editor); Tera W. Hunter (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780312294649
Subjects: Black studies; Social history; Urban communities; History; Ethnic Issues; History: World; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Sociology - Urban; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Social Science / African-American Studies; Social Science-Sociology - Urban; Americas (North Central South West Indies); African Americans; Social conditions; Sociology, Urban; United States
First sentence: On a cold January day in 1987 civil rights marchers moved in chanting columns toward the court house square in Forsyth county, Georgia, a place where, even in the mid-1980s, no black person could live, or even visit safely after dark.