Description: Like New copy of first edition paperback, clean, unmarked, tight copy with minimal front cover curling on corners, otherwise pristine. In this groundbreaking book, Kathryn Grover reconstructs from their own writings the lives of African Americans in Geneva, New York, virtually from its beginning in the 1790s, to the time of the community's first civil rights march in 1965. She weaves together demographic evidence and narratives by black Americans to recount their lives within a white-controlled society. Make a Way Somehow, which reflects the tenor of the gospel song whence it came, is a complete and meaningful history of black Genevans, with a moving focus on the individual experience. The author traces five principal migrations of African Americans to northern cities: the forced migration of slaves from the East and South before 1820; the antebellum fugitive slave farm-to-town movement; the postwar migration of emancipated people; the so-called Great Migration between the two World Wars; and the last movement that began around 1938 and ended in 1960, which was precipitated by the need for workers in large-scale commercial agriculture and the war-mobilization effort. Grover pieces together the lives of generations of African Americans in Geneva and delineates the local system of race relations from the city's social and economic standpoint. Black Genevans were kept at the fringes of society and worked in jobs that were temporary and scarce. While anti-slavery and suffrage work was common, it represented a small portion of reform in towns whose broader sentiments opposed racial equality. In a work that spans more than a hundred years, the author establishes a context for understanding both the persistence of a small group of blacks and the transience of a great many others.
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Book Title: Make a Way Somehow: African Americans...
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Item Length: 6 in
Original Language: English
Publication Year: 1995
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 9 in
Author: Kathryn Grover
Features: Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Politics & Society, Sociology, Spirituality
Topic: African Americans, American History, Civil Rights, Civil War, Cultural History, Economic History, Family History, Local History, New York, Oppression, Political History, Restoration, Slavery, Social Activists, Social History, Suffrage, Survival
Item Weight: 17oz
Number of Pages: 321 Pages
