AuthorBeeching, Barbara.
TitleHopes and expectations : the origins of the black middle class in Hartford / Barbara J. Beeching.
PublishedAlbany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
©2017
Descriptionxix, 270 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
ISBN9781438461656
ISBN1438461658
ISBNISBN (invalid) 9781438461663
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (page 241-254) and index.
Formatted NoteContents: 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.
Acq. Note SourcePurchase: The Steve Fund, 2016.
SubjectsAfrican 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.
LC Card Number2015-36648
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]