Black Chicago's First Century: 1833-1900, Volume 1;Volumes 1833-1900University of Missouri Press, 25/07/2005 - 600 páginas In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements in the Windy City, encompassing a range of activities and events that span the antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction periods. The author takes us from a time when black Chicago provided both workers and soldiers for the Union cause to the ensuing decades that saw the rise and development of a stratified class structure and growth in employment, politics, and culture. Just as the city was transformed in its first century of existence, so were its black inhabitants. Methodologically relying on the federal pension records of Civil War soldiers at the National Archives, as well as previously neglected photographic evidence, manuscripts, contemporary newspapers, and secondary sources, Reed captures the lives of Chicago’s vast army of ordinary black men and women. He places black Chicagoans within the context of northern urban history, providing a better understanding of the similarities and differences among them. We learn of the conditions African Americans faced before and after Emancipation. We learn how the black community changed and developed over time: we learn how these people endured—how they educated their children, how they worked, organized, and played. Black Chicago’s First Century is a balanced and coherent work. Anyone with an interest in urban history or African American studies will find much value in this book. |
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Antebellum Frontier Town and City of Refuge 18331860 | 42 |
I THE DEMOGRAPHY OF A PEOPLE | 43 |
FOUNDATIONS OF CULTURE AND COMMUNITY A Culture | 58 |
B The Possibility of Internal Group Distinctions | 63 |
Pullman Porters the Ambassadors of Hospitality | 252 |
C Women Inside and Outside the Service Domain | 255 |
D Business Growth and Development | 256 |
E The Professions | 264 |
IV THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY | 267 |
A The Respectables or Ordinary People | 268 |
B The Refined Element | 274 |
C The Economically Dispossessed | 284 |
C Religion Church Formation and Recreation | 79 |
D CommunityBased Initiatives Associations and Secular Interests | 87 |
III WHITE RACIAL CONSTRAINTS AND INTERRACIAL COLLABORATION | 93 |
A The Illinois Black Laws | 94 |
B Refuge and the Underground Railroad | 96 |
A Decade Demanding Vigilance | 100 |
The Civil War and Jubilee 18611865 | 110 |
I THE DEMOGRAPHY OF AN EVOLVING PEOPLE | 111 |
A The Adjustment to Life under Freedom | 114 |
B Emancipation | 124 |
C Religion and Church Life | 128 |
D Education | 134 |
A Liberty and Distrust | 135 |
B Employment Business and the Professions | 138 |
C Quasipolitical Activities | 141 |
IV WARTIME CHICAGO | 142 |
A Organization of an African American Regiment | 143 |
B Battlefield Participation and Experience in Combat | 152 |
THE REALITY OF JUBILEE | 165 |
HARBOR OF OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW CITIZENS 18661900 | 169 |
Introduction to Part II | 171 |
Freedom and Fire during the Reconstruction Era 18661879 | 176 |
I DEMOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF LIFE | 178 |
II THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS | 181 |
III THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE | 185 |
EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS | 190 |
The Pullman Porter Policeman Washerwoman and Fireman | 194 |
B The Business Sphere | 200 |
A New and Revitalized Attitudes and Institutions | 203 |
B The First Newspaper | 205 |
C Traditional Family Formation | 208 |
VI POSTWAR MARTIAL SPIRIT | 215 |
VII POLITICS | 222 |
Gilded Age Chicago 18801892 | 228 |
I DEMOGRAPHICS | 230 |
POPULATION AND PROPERTY OWNERSHIP | 237 |
III THE ECONOMIC SPHERE | 241 |
Commanders of the Dining Room | 249 |
D The Riffraff or Underclass | 289 |
The Black Desire for Equality of Opportunity and the White Fear of Social Equality | 293 |
1 White Philanthropy and BlackWhite Bonding | 297 |
2 Interracial Marriages | 303 |
3 Biracialism and Passing for White | 304 |
4 Interracial Amicability amid Black Distrust of White Intentions | 305 |
5 Varied Responses to Issues of Race | 307 |
CHURCH LIFE RELIGION AND SECULAR ASSOCIATIONS A Church Life and Religion | 315 |
B Reporting the News | 326 |
C Bonding along Martial Lines | 327 |
D Provident Hospital | 330 |
E Literary Societies and an Interest in Ideas and Letters | 332 |
VI POLITICS AND INTERRACIAL LINKAGE | 333 |
Fair and War 18931900 | 337 |
THE ARRIVAL OF THE MASSES AND THE TALENTED TENTH | 339 |
II THE CHANGING CITY LANDSCAPE | 340 |
III THE ECONOMIC FABRIC | 348 |
IV THE WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION | 359 |
V THE SOCIAL FABRIC | 382 |
B THE RESPECTABLES PERSEVERE | 390 |
C Life among the Economically and Socially Depressed | 391 |
VI THE CULTURAL FABRIC | 395 |
VII INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT | 403 |
B Fraternal Organizations and Activities | 409 |
C Spheres of Leadership | 411 |
MILITANTS CONSERVATIVES AND PRAGMATISTS | 417 |
IX POLITICS | 420 |
X THE SPANISHAMERICAN WAR | 425 |
The Foundation of the Black Metropolis | 436 |
The Illinois Black Laws | 445 |
An Act to Repeal the Black Laws | 456 |
An Act to Protect Colored Children in Their Rights to Attend School | 457 |
Illinois General Assembly House Bill 451885 | 458 |
Data from Jubilee Chicagos Black Civil War Soldiers | 459 |
Notes | 479 |
Bibliography | 545 |
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