Autor: Joe William Trotter Jr.

“After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter, ” Otis Trotter writes in …

Bank closings, soup kitchens, bread lines, unemployed workers begging for work–these images defined the 1930s and ’40s in America. For African Americans the era was a study in contrasts: black …

Bank closings, soup kitchens, bread lines, unemployed workers begging for work–these images defined the 1930s and ’40s in America. For African Americans the era was a study in contrasts: black …

African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to …

Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, <i>Black Urban History at the Crossroads </i>bridges disparate chronological, regional, …