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Blacks in the Adirondacks : a history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Svenson, Sally E. (Author)
Other Authors: Green, Alice P., 1946- (writer of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains > History.
African Americans > New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains > Biography.
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) > History, Local.
Table of Contents:
  • Slavery: backdrop to the Adirondack story
  • Gerrit Smith: Essex and Franklin County colonists
  • Soldiers of the Civil War
  • Wartime and early postwar migration
  • Making a living
  • Railroad building
  • The summer resort industry
  • Resort entertainment: employees and students
  • Baseball, and a little basketball
  • Saranac Lake and tuberculosis
  • Community life in Saranac Lake
  • Popular culture: professional performers
  • Lake Placid and the John Brown Memorial Association
  • Public and publicly supported institutions
  • Miners of Moriah
  • Pullman porters: railroad stories
  • The twentieth-century military
  • Tourism
  • 1940 to 1950 and beyond.