Black Experience in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.


Background Resources

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Books

  • Crew, Spencer R.  1987.  Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940 Washington, D.C.: Dept. of Public Programs, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
  • Gottlieb, Peter.  1987.  Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-30.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • Trotter, Joe William.  1990.  Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32, Blacks in the New World.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
  • ___ and Eric Ledell Smith.  1997.  African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives.  University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Articles

  • Stephenson, Clarence.  The Impact of the Slavery Issue on Indiana County. Marion Center, Pa.:  Mahoning Mimeograph & Pamphlet Service, [1964].
  • _____.  “Indiana Area Blacks battle for Civil Rights,” Indiana Gazette , June 8, 1985.
  • Trotter, Joe W.  1995-1996 Reflections on the Great Migration to Western Pennsylvania.  Pittsburgh History 78 (4):153-157.
  •  Kozol, Jonathan.  “Expanding Academic Conscience,” Saturday Review,  51 (August 17 1968) p. 21-3.

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Funded by a grant from  the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.


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