| Author | Beeching, Barbara.
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| Title | Hopes and expectations : the origins of the black middle class in Hartford / Barbara J. Beeching.
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| Published | Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
©2017
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| Description | xix, 270 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
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| ISBN | 9781438461656 |
| ISBN | 1438461658 |
| ISBN | ISBN (invalid) 9781438461663 |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (page 241-254) and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Prologue -- Migrant of necessity -- Growing up with the community -- [1] Expectations rising -- Family life amid racial turmoil -- Beyond uplift : a new spirit of resistance -- A black middle class takes shape in time of war -- [2] Expectations at work -- Nelson Primus : the artist in Boston -- Rebecca Primus : the teacher in Royal Oak -- Addie Brown : the working girl in Hartford -- [3] Expectations deferred -- Growth and decline -- Loss and persistence -- Epilogue -- Appendix.
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| Acq. Note Source | Purchase: The Steve Fund, 2016.
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| Subjects | African Americans -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Biography.
African Americans -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Economic conditions.
African Americans -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Social conditions.
Brown, Addie.
Community life -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History.
Hartford (Conn.) -- Economic conditions.
Hartford (Conn.) -- Race relations.
Middle class -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- History.
Primus, Nelson, 1842-1916.
Primus, Rebecca, 1836-1932.
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| LC Card Number | 2015-36648 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: F 7 Y H328 B4 2017
CA-1702213 c.1: Local class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 50627] |
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