Our Stories Volume 7 -

Our Stories Volume 7

Black Families in Early Dallas
Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2022
University of North Texas Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-57441-882-8 (ISBN)
52,30 inkl. MwSt
Brings together memoirs from many of Dallas’s earliest Black families, as handed down over the generations to their twentieth-century descendants. Included are detailed descriptions of more than thirty early Dallas communities formed by free African Americans, along with the histories of fifty-seven early Black families.
Our Stories: Black Families in Early Dallas enlarges upon two publications by the late Dr. Mamie McKnight’s organization, Black Dallas Remembered—First African American Families of Dallas (1987) and African American Families and Settlements of Dallas (1990). Our Stories is the history of Black citizens of Dallas going about their lives in freedom, as described by the late Eva Partee McMillan: “The ex-slaves purchased land, built homes, raised their children, erected their educational and religious facilities, educated their children, and profited from their labor.” Our Stories brings together memoirs from many of Dallas’s earliest Black families, as handed down over the generations to their twentieth-century descendants. The period covered begins in the 1850s and goes through the 1930s. Included are detailed descriptions of more than thirty early Dallas communities formed by free African Americans, along with the histories of fifty-seven early Black families, and brief biographies of many of the early leaders of these Black communities.

The stories reveal hardships endured and struggles overcome, but the storytellers focus on the triumphs over adversity and the successes achieved against the odds. The histories include the founding of churches, schools, newspapers, hospitals, grocery stores, businesses, and other institutions established to nourish and enrich the lives of the earliest Black families in Dallas.
Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Texas Local Series
Zusatzinfo 22 b&w illustrations
Verlagsort Denton
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 363 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-57441-882-3 / 1574418823
ISBN-13 978-1-57441-882-8 / 9781574418828
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