African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives

African Americans in Pennsylvania (hardcover)

Joe William Trotter Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith, 1997. An anthology of recent scholarship on the African American experience in Pennsylvania. This volume offers the most comprehensive history of the state's black history to date. The book shows how ordinary people have influenced the culture, institutions, and politics of African American communities in Pennsylvania. In the process, it documents the ways that black people have influenced, and continue to influence the Commonwealth. (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and Penn State Press)

Joe William Trotter Jr. and Eric Ledell Smith, 1997. An anthology of recent scholarship on the African American experience in Pennsylvania. This volume offers the most comprehensive history of the state's black history to date. The book shows how ordinary people have influenced the culture, institutions, and politics of African American communities in Pennsylvania. In the process, it documents the ways that black people have influenced, and continue to influence the Commonwealth.

An anthology of recent scholarship on the African American experience in Pennsylvania.