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Hopes and expectations : the origins of the Black middle class in Hartford /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beeching, Barbara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Primus, Nelson, > 1842-1916.
Primus, Rebecca, > 1836-1932.
Brown, Addie.
African Americans > Connecticut > Hartford > Social conditions.
African Americans > Connecticut > Hartford > Economic conditions.
Middle class > Connecticut > Hartford > History.
Community life > Connecticut > Hartford > History.
African Americans > Connecticut > Hartford > Biography.
Hartford (Conn.) > Economic conditions.
Hartford (Conn.) > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Migrant of necessity
  • Growing up with the community
  • [1] Expectations rising
  • Family life and racial turmoil
  • Beyond uplift : a new spirit of resistance
  • A black middle class takes shape in wartime
  • [2] Expectations at work
  • Nelson Primus : the artist in Boston
  • Rebecca Primus : the teacher in Royal Oak
  • Addie Brown : the working girl in Hartford
  • [3] Expectations deferred
  • Growth and decline
  • Loss and persistence
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix.