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Article: America's First Black Town, Brookly, Illinois, 1830-1915 & Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940. (Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
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- Urban History Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua. America's First Black Town. Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830--1915. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. Xiv, 276. Tables, index. US$37.50 (cloth).
Lillian Serece Williams. Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900--1940. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 273. 5 maps, 40 black and white photos, 11 line illustrations, bibliography, index. US$49.50 (cloth),US$22.95 (paper).
Much of early African-American urban history dealt with the rise of ghettos in Chicago and New York in the post World-War-I era. More recently, we ...