United States History - African American History, United States History - Western, Plains & Rocky Mountain Region, African American History, Urban Sociology, United States History - 19th Century - Westward Migration & Development
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Overview
Nicodemus, Kansas; Mound Bayou, Mississippi; Langston City, Oklahoma; Boley, Oklahoma; and Allensworth, California. What factors sparked the beginnings of these five black towns? Kenneth Marvin Hamilton explores their origins, early development, and promotion and argues that economic motives, rather than racial concerns, led to their inception.Book Details
Published
March 1, 1991
Publisher
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1991.
Pages
216
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780252017575