Missouri's Black Heritage, Revised Edition (Volume 1) - Softcover

Greene, Lorenzo J.; Kremer, Gary R.; Holland, Antonio F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082620905X ISBN 13: 9780826209054

Publisher: University of Missouri, 1993

Synopsis

Originally written in 1980 by the late Lorenzo J. Greene, Gary R. Kremer, and Antonio F. Holland, Missouri's Black Heritage remains the only book-length account of the rich and inspiring history of the state's African American population. It has now been revised and updated by Kremer and Holland, incorporating the latest scholarship into its pages. This edition describes in detail the struggles faced by many courageous African Americans in their efforts to achieve full civil and political rights against the greatest of odds.

Documenting the African American experience from the horrors of slavery through present-day victories, the book touches on the lives of people such as John Berry Meachum, a St. Louis slave who purchased his own freedom and then helped countless other slaves gain emancipation; Hiram Young, a Jackson County free black whose manufacturing of wagons for Sante Fe Trail travelers made him a legendary figure; James Milton Turner, who, after rising from slavery to become one of the best-educated blacks in Missouri, worked with the Freedmen's Bureau and the State Department of Education to establish schools for blacks all over the state after the Civil War; and Annie Turnbo Malone, a St. Louis entrepreneur whose business skills made her one of the state's wealthiest African Americans in the early twentieth century.

A personal reminiscence by the late Lorenzo J. Greene, a distinguished African American historian whom many regard as one of the fathers of black history, offers a unique view of Missouri's racial history and heritage.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

this edition describes in detail the struggles faced by many courageous African-Americans in their efforts to achieve full civil and political rights against the greatest of odds.

About the Author:

Lorenzo J. Greene (1899-1988) was Professor Emeritus of History at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was the author of several books, includingThe Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776 and Working with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History: A Diary, 1928-1930.

Gary R. Kremer is Professor of History at William Woods College in Fulton, Missouri. He is author ofGeorge Washington Carver: In His Own Words and James Milton Turner and the Promise of America: The Public Life of a Post-Civil War Black Leader.

Antonio F. Holland is Associate Professor of History and Chairman of the Department of Social Sciences at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Missouri
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 082620905X
• ISBN 13: 9780826209054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255