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This encyclopedic study will be of tremendous use to students of African American history and the history of nineteenth-century Chicago. Christopher Robert Reed has gone through old newspapers (including hard-to-find African American papers), oral histories, and a range of archival sources to provide an extraordinary overview of African American life in Chicago from the moment Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable settled his family by the Chicago River at roughly the location where present-day Michigan Avenue crosses it to the point in 1898 when African American troops marched out of the city on their way to fight in the Spanish-American War. The result is a complex look at a long and complicated history."" - Journal of American History

Black Chicagos First Century

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      Publisher: University of Missouri Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826221285, 978-0826221285
      ISBN10: 0826221289

      Description

      Book Synopsis


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      This encyclopedic study will be of tremendous use to students of African American history and the history of nineteenth-century Chicago. Christopher Robert Reed has gone through old newspapers (including hard-to-find African American papers), oral histories, and a range of archival sources to provide an extraordinary overview of African American life in Chicago from the moment Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable settled his family by the Chicago River at roughly the location where present-day Michigan Avenue crosses it to the point in 1898 when African American troops marched out of the city on their way to fight in the Spanish-American War. The result is a complex look at a long and complicated history."" - Journal of American History

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