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**So if you wanted to get a strong grasp of this history, '''what books should you read'''? | **So if you wanted to get a strong grasp of this history, '''what books should you read'''? | ||
== [https://billypenn.com/2017/02/08/the-philly-black-history-syllabus-13-must-read-books-to-understand-our-city/ Read the original article with author Cassie Owens' | == [https://billypenn.com/2017/02/08/the-philly-black-history-syllabus-13-must-read-books-to-understand-our-city/ Read the original article with author Cassie Owens' description of each book] == | ||
'''Links to buy the books:''' | '''Links to buy the books:''' | ||
#[https://www.amazon.com/Philadelphia-Negro-Social-Study/dp/0812215737 The Philadelphia Negro, '''W.E.B. DuBois'''] | #[https://www.amazon.com/Philadelphia-Negro-Social-Study/dp/0812215737 The Philadelphia Negro, '''W.E.B. DuBois'''] | ||
Revision as of 03:12, 16 September 2018
The Philly Black History Syllabus: 13 must-read books to understand our city, by Cassie Owens
Philly has made a lot of black history. Nearly 690,000 African Americans live in the city.
- And so, with this large and longstanding community, there’s no shortage of institutions to honor and stars to remember during Black History Month.
- So if you wanted to get a strong grasp of this history, what books should you read?
Links to buy the books:
- The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. DuBois
- Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910, Kali N. Gross
- Saved and Sanctified: Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia, Deidre Helen Crumbley
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
- The Journey of John W. Mosley, Charles L. Blockson
- Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, Lawrence Otis Graham
- A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia, Lisa Levenstein
- Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love, James Wolfinger
- Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia, Matthew J. Countryman
- The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia, Matthew F. Delmont