Race and meaning : the African American experience in Missouri / Gary R. Kremer.

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Main Author: Kremer, Gary R. (Author)
Other title:Race & meaning.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Race and meaning in Missouri history: a personal journey
  • Some aspects of black education in reconstruction Missouri: an address by Richard B. Foster
  • Pennytown: a freedmen's Hamlet, 1871-1945
  • "Yours for the race": the life and work of Josephine Silone Yates
  • The world of make-believe: James Milton Turner and black masonry
  • George Washington Carver's Missouri
  • Nathaniel C. Bruce, black education, and the "Tuskegee of the Midwest"
  • "The black people did the work": African American life in Arrow Rock, Missouri, 1850-1960
  • "Just like the Garden of Eden"; African American community life in Kansas City's Leeds
  • The Whitley sisters remember: living with segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
  • The Missouri Industrial Home for Negro Girls: the 1930s
  • Black culture mecca of the Midwest: Lincoln University, 1921-1955
  • Lake Placid: "A recreational center for colored people" in the Missouri Ozarks
  • William J. Thompkins: African American physician, politician, and publisher
  • The Abraham Lincoln legacy in Missouri
  • Epilogue: New sources and directions for research on the African American experience in Missouri.