Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880-1950

by Maureen Elgersman Lee

Book Overview

Blacks have lived and worked in Maine as early as the seventeenth century, but historically have constituted less than one percent of Maine's population. Probably for this reason, books on Blacks in New England have largely ignored the experience of African American Mainers. Black Bangor is the first major published study of a Black community in Maine.

This tightly woven case study examines the African American community in Bangor during its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584654996
• ISBN13: 9781584654995
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"