To Build Our Lives Together: Community Formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906University of Georgia Press, 2004 - 238 páginas After Reconstruction, against considerable odds, African Americans in Atlanta went about such self-interested pursuits as finding work and housing. They also built community, says Allison Dorsey. To Build Our Lives Together chronicles the emergence of the network of churches, fraternal organizations, and social clubs through which black Atlantans pursued the goals of adequate schooling, more influence in local politics, and greater access to municipal services. Underpinning these efforts were the notions of racial solidarity and uplift. Yet as Atlanta's black population grew--from two thousand in 1860 to forty thousand at the turn of the century--its community had to struggle not only with the dangers and caprices of white laws and customs but also with internal divisions of status and class. Among other topics, Dorsey discusses the boomtown atmosphere of post-Civil War Atlanta that lent itself so well to black community formation; the diversity of black church life in the city; the role of Atlanta's black colleges in facilitating economic prosperity and upward mobility; and the ways that white political retrenchment across Georgia played itself out in Atlanta. Throughout, Dorsey shows how black Atlantans adapted the cultures, traditions, and survival mechanisms of slavery to the new circumstances of freedom. Although white public opinion endorsed racial uplift, whites inevitably resented black Atlantans who achieved some measure of success. The Atlanta race riot of 1906, which marks the end of this study, was no aberration, Dorsey argues, but the inevitable outcome of years of accumulated white apprehensions about black strivings for social equality and economic success. Denied the benefits of full citizenship, the black elite refocused on building an Atlanta of their own within a sphere of racial exclusion that would remain in force for much of the twentieth century. |
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... Status : Fraternal Organizations in Black Atlanta SIX . Citizenship Denied : Blacks in Atlanta City Politics SEVEN . The Turn toward Violence : The Atlanta Race Riot and Progress Curtailed 167 Epilogue 171 Appendix 177 Notes 213 ...
... status competition and conflict . Social clubs and literary societies proved to be important locations for cultivating a new cultural ideology and new sets of social behaviors , especially among higher - status blacks.3 2 Only as we ...
... to the power white society possessed to maintain a racial status quo . As Tera Hunter has observed , " despite effective community mobilizations on many fronts - indeed , because of their effect - blacks Introduction 3 •
... enclaves might order the collective goals differently - lower- status blacks placing pursuit of viable employment above formal education , propertied blacks placing moral reformation and political access above social 4. Introduction.
... status blacks in the city . If , as William H. Chafe has argued in his discussion of the Civil Rights movement in Greensboro , North Carolina , progressive race relations were marked on the white side by the " culture of civility ...
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An Island in the Upcountry African Americans in Early Atlanta | 15 |
Phoenix Rising African Americans and the Economy in Postwar Atlanta | 29 |
The Black Church in Atlanta Brush Arbors in Freedom | 54 |
Community Action and Resistance Black Atlanta and the Fight for Education | 82 |
Fraternity Community and Status Fraternal Organizations in Black Atlanta | 101 |
Citizenship Denied Blacks in Atlanta City Politics | 122 |
The Turn toward Violence The Atlanta Race Riot and Progress Curtailed | 147 |
Epilogue | 167 |
Appendix | 171 |
Notes | 177 |
Bibliography | 213 |
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