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Author Boston, Michael B., author.

Title Blacks in Niagara Falls : leaders and community development, 1850-1985 / Michael B. Boston
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021]

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Contents Community Formation, 1850 to 1914 -- Development of the Black Community, Late 1915 to Early Great Depression Years -- The Development of the Black Community: The Great Depression Years, 1930s -- Expanded Community and New Realities, 1840 to 1960 -- The Civil Rights Years, 1960s -- Public School Desegregation, 1960s and 1970s -- Urban Renewal, 1960 to 1985: External Change Agents Juxtaposed with Internal Change Agents -- A New Reality, 1980 to 1985
Summary A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s
Subject Niagara Community Center (Niagara Falls, New York) -- History
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls -- Social conditions -- 20th century
African Americans -- Civil rights -- New York (State) -- Niagara Falls -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Social conditions
Race relations
SUBJECT Niagara Falls (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Niagara Falls (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject New York (State) -- Niagara Falls
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438484631
1438484631
Other Titles Leaders and community development, 1849-1985