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Joe William Trotter
University Press of Kentucky

River Jordan: African American Urban Life in the Ohio Valley

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AuthorJoe William Trotter
PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky
PublishedMay 01 1998
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139780813120652
Dimensions9.31 X 6.26 X 0.86 inches
Weight 1.15 pounds
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CategoriesSocial Science > Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies
LanguageEnglish

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The Ohio River has great symbolic significance in African American history. During the industrial age, it marked the division between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. Before that, it symbolized the passage of blacks from slavery to freedom along the underground railroad. Hence, African Americans frequently referred to the Ohio as the River Jordan. But what about African American life in the communities located along the river itself? In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to build bridges across the social chasms that separated them to create vibrant new communities. Joe Trotter examines African American urban life in these four Ohio Valley cities from the arrival of the first blacks in the region to the civil rights movements of the recent past. Standing at the forefront of both community development and social conflict was the long-term transformation of southern agricultural workers into a new urban working class.

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Joe William Trotter, Jr. is the Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and past History Department Chair at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director and Founder of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), President Elect of the Urban History Association and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His latest publication is Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America (University of California Press, 2019). Professor Trotter received his BA degree from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. He is currently working on a study of African American urban life since the Atlantic slave trade.

Dr. Trotter teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in African American and U. S. urban, labor, and working class history. He has delivered scholarly papers and lectures in a variety of professional forums in the United States and abroad, including institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, the Netherlands, and the Middle East. He has served on the boards and committees of numerous professional organizations: Executive Council, OAH; Chair, Nominating Committee, OAH; OAH Program Committee; Executive Council, SHA; Program Committee, SHA; Francis B. Simkins Prize Committee, SHA; Immigration History Society Executive Board; Jameson Fellowship Committee, AHA; Program Committee, Oral History Association; chair of the annual Program Committee of the American Historical Association.

He has also served as a member and Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the H. John Heinz III Regional History Center, a Smithsonian Affiliate, and past President of the Labor and Working Class History Association.

Source: Carnegie Mellon University

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