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Upbuilding Black Durham

Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South

by Leslie Brown ยท 2008

ISBN: 0807831387 9780807831380

Category: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Page count: 451

In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation