Negro Building : Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums / Mabel O. Wilson.

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Wilson, Mabel O [author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780520952492
0520952499

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Negro building.DDC classification:

305.896/073 23

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E185.53.A1

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1. Progress of a Race: The Black Side's Contribution to Atlanta's World's Fair -- 2. Exhibiting the American Negro -- 3. Remembering Emancipation Up North -- 4. Look Back, March Forward -- 5. To Make a Black Museum -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived the curatorial content--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton and Margaret Burroughs. As the 2015 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., approaches, the book reveals why the black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major black historical museums rather than the nation's capital--until now.

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"Reprint 2019"--Walter de Gruyter digital title page.

"George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-389) and index.

Focusing on black Americans' participation in world's fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums, Negro Building traces the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Mabel O. Wilson gives voice to the figures that conceived the curatorial content--Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, A. Philip Randolph, Horace Cayton and Margaret Burroughs. As the 2015 opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., approaches, the book reveals why the black cities of Chicago and Detroit became the sites of major black historical museums rather than the nation's capital--until now.

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