Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, NY, 1900-1940 - ISBN: 0253335523


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	Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, NY, 1900-1940
	by Lillian Serece Williams

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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 0253335523

Release Date: Jan 7, 1999

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In Brief
Strangers in the Land of Paradise examines the creation of an African American community as a distinct cultural entity. It delineates values and institutions that the black migrant population brought with it from the South, as well as those that evolved as a result of their interaction with blacks native to the city and the city itself.

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Strangers in the Land of Paradise discusses the creation of an African American community as a distinct cultural entity. It describes values and institutions that Black migrants from the South brought with them, as well as those that evolved as a result of their interaction with Blacks native to the city and the city itself. Through an examination of work, family, community organizations, and political actions, Lillian Williams explores the process by which the migrants adapted to their new environment.

The lives of African Americans in Buffalo from 1900 to 1940 reveal much about race, class, and gender in the development of urban communities.

About the Author:
Lillian Serece Williams is Associate Professor of History in the Women's Studies Department and Director of the Institute for Research on Women at Albany, the State University of New York. She is editor of Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992.

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The Migration of an American People

-- Arlene Reed-Delaney, M.D., a doctor from upstate New York, March 20, 2000

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[This study]. . . will make a splendid contribution to the fields of African American and American urban, social and family history. . . . expanding the tradition that is now well underway of refuting the pathological emphasis of the prevailing ghetto studies of the 1960s and '70s. —Joe W. Trotter

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Blacks in Twentieth-Century Buffalo: Structural Development
1	The Early Years	9
2	Growing Up Black	31
3	To Help See One Another Through	45
4	Work	65
Pt. II	Blacks Organize to Improve Their Status: Institutional Development
5	Philanthropy and Uplift	99
6	Not Aims, but Opportunity	123
7	Civil Rights, Politics, and Community	151
	Conclusion	188
App. I	Figures
1	Age Distribution of Buffalo Population by Race and Sex, 1920	194
2	Household Status of Black Males, 1905	195
3	Household Status of Black Males, 1925	196
4	Household Status of Black Females, 1905	197
5	Household Status of Black Females, 1925	198
6	Median Salary and Weekly Experience - High School and Grammar School	199
7	Median Salary and Weekly Experience - Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Women	199
8	Median Salary and Weekly Experience - American and "Old Immigration" Groups	200
9	Median Salary and Weekly Experience - American and "New Immigration" Groups	200
10	Median Salary and Weekly Experience - American and "Old Immigration" Groups (high school graduates only)	201
11	Median Salary and Weekly Experience - American and "New Immigration" Groups (high school graduates only)	201
App. II	Maps
1	Black Population in the City of Buffalo, 1905	204
2	Black Population in the City of Buffalo, 1915	205
3	Black Population in the City of Buffalo, 1925	206
4	Ethnic Settlements in Buffalo at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	207
5	Buffalo Tracts, Wards, Councilmanic Districts	208
App. III	Method of Computerization and Occupation Codes	209
	Notes	217
	Bibliography	249
	Periodicals and Newspapers	261
	Manuscript Collections	263
	Index	265

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