Black Chicago's First Century: 1833-1900

by Christopher Robert Reed

In Black Chicago's First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed's study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements in the Windy City, encompassing a range of activities and events that span the antebellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, and post-Reconstruction periods...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826221289
• ISBN13: 9780826221285
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5