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African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio: 1915-1930

African Americans and the Color Line in Ohio: 1915-1930

Giffin, William W.

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 0814254209
ISBN13: 9780814254202
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Jun 1 2017
Pages: 322
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Writing in true social history tradition, William W. Giffin presents a magisterial study of African Americans focusing on times that saw the culmination of trends that were fundamentally important in shaping the twentieth century. While many scholars have examined African Americans in the south and such large cities as New York and Chicago during this time, other important urban areas have been ignored. Ohio, with its large but very different urban centers--notably, Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati--provides Giffin with the wealth of statistical data and qualitative material that he uses to argue that the color line in Ohio hardened during this time period as the Great Migration gained force. His data shows, too, that the color line varied according to urban area--it hardened progressively as one traveled South in the state. In addition, whereas previous studies have concentrated on activism at the national level through such groups as the NAACP, Giffin shows how African American men and women in Ohio constantly negotiated the color line on a local level, through both resistance and accommodation on a daily and very interpersonal level with whites, other blacks, and people of different ethnic, class, and racial backgrounds. This early grassroots resistance provided the groundwork for the Civil Rights movement that would gain momentum some twenty years later.

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