Make a Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790-1965

by Kathryn Grover

In a groundbreaking book, Kathryn Grover reconstructs from their own writings the lives of African Americans in Geneva, New York, virtually from its beginning in the 1790s, to the time of the community's first civil rights march in 1965.

She weaves together demographic evidence and narratives by black Americans to recount their lives within a white-controlled society. Make a Way Somehow, which reflects the tenor of the gospel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815626266
• ISBN13: 9780815626268
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"