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Language: en
Pages: 450
Pages: 450
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
"An enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come." —David Nicholson, Washington Post A landmark history of African Americans in the West,
Language: en
Pages: 557
Pages: 557
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press
From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find
Language: en
Pages: 424
Pages: 424
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Between 1940 and 2010, the black population of the American West grew from 710,400 to 7 million. With that explosive growth has come a burgeoning interest in th
Language: en
Pages: 427
Pages: 427
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-07 - Publisher: University of Washington Press
Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to
Language: en
Pages: 450
Pages: 450
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that