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Separate but equal? : residential racial segregation in Lancaster : considerations for community planning-- 1997 : a special report

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17155
Date of Publication
[1997?]
Call Number
363.51 S479
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Responsibility
by the Fair Housing Program, Lancaster County Human Relations Commission.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, PA
Publisher
Lancaster County Human Relations Commission,
Date of Publication
[1997?]
Physical Description
59 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-59).
Subjects
Discrimination in housing - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Hispanic Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Additional Corporate Author
Lancaster City-County Human Relations Commission. Fair Housing Program.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
363.51 S479
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African American freedom journey in New York and related sites, 1823-1870 : freedom knows no color

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19141
Author
Matthews, Harry Bradshaw.
Date of Publication
2008.
Call Number
973.3 M439
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Responsibility
Harry Bradshaw Matthews.
ISBN
9780979953743 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Author
Matthews, Harry Bradshaw.
Place of Publication
Cherry Hill, NJ
Publisher
Africana Homestead Legacy Publishers,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
xii, 467 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Summary
"Harry Bradshaw Matthews' history discusses antislavery movements in African American communities in New York State, as well as Pennsylvania and South Carolina, and their role in national movements during the 19th century. His identification and discussion of black leaders, historic sites, and instruction on conducting genealogical research is an outstanding addition that enhances the work. By compiling hundreds of illustrations consisting of newspaper articles, editorials, notices, and the name indexes of the 20th and 26th Regiments of the United Sates Colored Troops, Matthews gives a unique wealth of genealogical information that is a treasure-trove sure to aid scholars and family historians for years to come." [from GoodReads.com]
Subjects
African Americans - New York (State)
African Americans - Pennsylvania
African Americans - South Carolina
Antislavery movements - New York (State)
Antislavery movements - Pennsylvania
Antislavery movements - South Carolina
African Americans - Genealogy.
Historic sites - New York (State)
Historic sites - Pennsylvania.
Historic sites - South Carolina.
Pennsylvania - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.3 M439
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No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African-American population and the Civil War Era

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo93
Author
Hopkins, Leroy.
Date of Publication
1993.
Stephen Smith (1795-1873) whose meteoric career as a businessman epitomized for some Columbians the dangers of Black competition. Although the riots did not achieve their purpose, life was certainly difficult for Smith and others. A letter written by Smith to State Senator John Strohm just one year after
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Responsibility
by Leroy T. Hopkins, Jr. Ph.D.
Author
Hopkins, Leroy.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1993.
Physical Description
[20]-40 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v.95, no.1
Subjects
Confederate States of America. - Army - History.
United States. - Army - History
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Lancaster (Pa.) - Race relations.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 95, number 1 (1993), p. 20-40Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.95
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Guide to African American resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo9545
Author
Hodge, Ruth E.
Date of Publication
2000.
Call Number
016.9748 H688
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Alternate Title
African American resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives.
Responsibility
Ruth E. Hodge.
ISBN
089271087X
Author
Hodge, Ruth E.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, [Pa.]
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
2000.
Physical Description
xii, 598 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Clifford Edmond, Jr. Collection on African American History.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. - Division of Archives and Manuscripts - Catalogs.
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Bibliography - Catalogs.
Manuscripts, American - Pennsylvania - Harrisburg - Catalogs.
Pennsylvania - Race relations - Sources - Bibliography - Catalogs.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
016.9748 H688
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African Americans in Pennsylvania : above ground and underground : an illustrated guide

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17129
Author
Blockson, Charles L.
Date of Publication
2001.
Call Number
326 B651
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Responsibility
Charles L. Blockson.
ISBN
1879441853
9781879441859
Author
Blockson, Charles L.
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, PA
Publisher
RB Books,
Date of Publication
2001.
Physical Description
320 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-297) and index.
Contents
Enslaved Africans in early Pennsylvania --- African Resistance to Slavery --- The Underground Railroad --- The Fugitive Slave Law of1850 --- Black Enfranchisement --- The Question of Emigrationor Migration --- The Role of the Church --- Progress throughEducation --- Black Men and Women of letters --- EarlyPhiladelphia entrepreneurs --- Black Inventors and Scientists ---African Americans in Medicine --- African Americans in the Media--- Black Americans in Performing Arts ( Dance , Theater , Music, Film, and Television ) --- Black Artists --- Black Athletes --- A Guide to Historic Places
Summary
An illustrated biographical guide to some of the distinguished Afro-Americans of Pennsylvania.
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Race relations.
Pennsylvania - History, Local.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 B651
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African Americans in Pennsylvania : shifting historical perspectives

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2844
Date of Publication
c1997.
Call Number
326 A258
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Responsibility
edited by Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith.
ISBN
0271016868 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271016876 (paperback : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
University Park, PA : Harrisburg, PA
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
c1997.
Physical Description
xv, 519 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Introduction : Pennsylavania's African American history : a review of the literature / Joe W. Trotter Jr. -- Slaves and slave owners in colonial Philadelphia / Gary B. Nash -- Black women in colonial Pennsylvania / Jean R. Soderlund -- "Since they got those separate churches" : Afro-Ameriacn and racism in Jacksonian Philadelphia / Emma Jones Lapsansky -- Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia : a study of ex-slaves, freeborn, and socioeconomic decline / Theodore Hershberg -- "Freedom, or the matyr's grave" : Black Pittsburgh's aid to the fugitive slave / R.J.M. Blackett -- The Forten-Purvis women of Philadelphia and the American antislavery crusade / Janice Sumler-Lewis -- No balm in Gilead : Lancaster's African American population and the Civil War era / Leroy T. Hopkins -- Nineteenth-century Philadelphia Black militant : Octavius V. Catto (1839-1871) / Harry C. Silcox -- "Two steps forward, a step-and-a-half back" : Harrisburg's African American community in the nineteenth cerntury / Gerald G. Eggert -- The impact of the "new immigration" on the Black worker : Steelton, Pennsylvania, 1880-1920 / John E. Bodnar -- Migration and jobs : the new Black workers in Pittsburgh, 1916-1930 / Peter Gottlieb -- The Black migration to Philadelphia : a 1924 profile / Frederic Miller -- The Philadelphia Race Riot of 1918 / V.P. Franklin -- And the results showed promise...physicians, childbirth, and Southern Black migrant women, 1916-1930 : Pittsburgh as a case study / Carolyn Leonard Carson -- Black workers, defense industries, and federal agencies in Pennsylvania, 1941-1945 / Merl E. Reed -- The Black church in industrializing Western Pensylvania, 1870-1950 / Dennis C. Dickerson -- Double burden : the Black experience in Pittsburgh / Laurence Glasco -- Public housing, isolation, and the urban underclass : Philadelphia's Richard Allen Homes, 1941-1965 / John Bauman, Norman P. Hummon, and Edward K. Muller -- Race and neighborhood transition / Elijah Anderson.
Subjects
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Race relations.
Additional Author
Trotter, Joe William,
Smith, Eric Ledell,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
326 A258
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But we have no country : the 1851 Christiana, Pennsylvania Resistance

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12760
Author
Forbes, Ella,
Date of Publication
1998.
Call Number
974.80323 F692e
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Responsibility
by Ella Forbes.
ISBN
0965330818 (cloth : acidfree paper)
Author
Forbes, Ella,
Place of Publication
Cherry Hill, N.J
Publisher
Africana Homestead Legacy,
Date of Publication
1998.
Physical Description
xiv, 338 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-330) and index.
Summary
"But We Have No Country" examines how William Parker and the Christiana Resisters tested the basic tenets of American democracy and law, especially the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law. In doing so, they exposed the contradiction between the theory of the American creed and the reality of the enslavement and oppression of black Americans. Ultimately the Christiana Resistance was a contest of wills between Parker and his self-defense organization, with natural law on their side, and Edward Grosuch and other white slave owners, armed, literally with civil law. Their struggle encapsulized the more immense battle of how to incorporate the institution of slavery in a so-called free society which was waging nationwide. It was a clash that Parker and the valiant Resisters won. [from Amazon.com]
Subjects
United States. - Fugitive slave law (1850)
Slave insurrections - Pennsylvania - Christiana.
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323 F692e
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Defend or destroy? The Columbia-Wrightesville Bridge in the Gettysburg campaign

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17893
Author
Schaefer, Thomas L.
Date of Publication
2003.
Call Number
974.815 COLU D313 DVD
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Responsibility
written and directed by Thomas L. Schaefer.
Author
Schaefer, Thomas L.
Place of Publication
[S. l.]
Publisher
A Total Magic Video Production ,
Date of Publication
2003.
Physical Description
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
"Produced for Rivertownes PA USA in commemoration of the 140th anniversary of the burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge on 28 June 1863, this program narrates the dramatic story of the bridge's destruction and details the valiant attempt of an outnumbered detachment of raw Union militia to halt the advance of Confederate Brigadier General John Gordon's determined veteran infantry."
Also "introduces the poignant, very risky participation of a company of free blacks from Columbia."
Subjects
Gettysburg (Pa.) Battle of, 1863-
African Americans - Pennsylvania
Covered bridges - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
Covered bridges - Pennsylvania - York County.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
York County (Pa.) - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Media
Call Number
974.815 COLU D313 DVD
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Bloody dawn : the Christiana Riot and racial violence in the antebellum North

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3422
Author
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Date of Publication
1991.
Call Number
974.80323 S631
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Responsibility
Thomas P. Slaughter.
ISBN
0195046331 :
Author
Slaughter, Thomas P.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication
1991.
Physical Description
xiv, 252 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-239) and index.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
Chapters: THE ESCAPE // BLACK IMAGES IN WHITE MINDS // THE CHASE // THE RIOT // AFTERMATH // STRATAGEMS // THE TRIAL // RACE, VIOLENCE , AND LAW // RACE, RIOTS AND LAW // CONCLUSION
Summary
"This book tells the story of a riot that erupted on September 11, 1851 at Christiana, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and of the people whose lives were changed forever by that violent event. Shortly after dawn on that day, Lancaster's African-American community rose up in arms against attempted enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850; and, in the course of saving four men from the federal posse charged to reenslave them, rioters killed the Maryland farmer who was trying to reclaim his human chattel." [from the introduction]
Subjects
Riots - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Fugitive slaves - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Violence - Pennsylvania - Christiana
African Americans - Pennsylvania - Christiana
Christiana (Pa.) - Race relations.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.80323 S631
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The lion in the park : the life and works of Blanche Nevin : biography and poetry of Blanche Nevin the sculptress and world traveler, 1841-1925, Churchtown, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15
Author
Brubaker, Phyllis Jean Smith.
Date of Publication
1997.
Call Number
929 N526b
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Responsibility
by Phyllis Jean Smith Brubaker.
ISBN
1887750444 (pbk.)
Author
Brubaker, Phyllis Jean Smith.
Place of Publication
Bethel, CT
Publisher
Rutledge Books,
Date of Publication
1997.
Physical Description
xvii, 253 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253).
Summary
A resident of Lancaster, PA, for part of her life, Ms Nevin (1805-1890) was an accomplished sculpter and also a poet. This biography is named for a statue of a lion which she donated to Lancaster that was placed in the city's "Reservoir Park." The book contains photos of some of her sculptures and many of her poems.
Subjects
Nevin, Blanche, - 1841-1925.
Sculptors - United States
Decorative arts - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.
American poetry.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 N526b
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