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Roland Barksdale-Hall African Americans in Mercer County Pa (Paperback)
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- Condition
- Book Title
- African Americans in Mercer County
- Publication Name
- African Americans in Mercer County Pa
- Title
- African Americans in Mercer County Pa
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0738565016
- EAN
- 9780738565019
- ISBN
- 9780738565019
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Genre
- Photography, History, Social Science
- Release Year
- 2009
- Release Date
- 27/05/2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 0.7 Oz
- Series
- Images of America
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Subjects & Themes / Historical, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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African Americans in Mercer County have a legacy spanning two centuries of progress. Runaway slaves secreted along stations of the Underground Railroad to Liberia, a settlement founded by Richard Travis. Deep religious convictions provided fertile ground for development of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion connection, known as the Freedom Church, and Pandenarium, an experimental colony of manumitted slaves. In the 20th century, southern migrants found employment in the steel industry and became institution builders. William Hunter Dammond, the first African American graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, found employment as a draftsman. The Twin City Elks of Farrell, a unifying force, was the largest fraternal group in Pennsylvania for two decades. Beginning in 1807 with Thomas Bronson, who acquired 200 acres along the Shenango River near Wheatland, through the culmination of today s Juneteenth Freedom Day celebration, African Americans in Mercer County chronicles a people s ongoing journey to freedom."
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Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
ISBN-10
0738565016
ISBN-13
9780738565019
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72396279
Product Key Features
Book Title
African Americans in Mercer County
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Subjects & Themes / Historical, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Photography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
0.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
F157.M5b375 2009
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Title: Every picture tells a story Author: Tom Davidson Publisher: The Herald Date: 6/20/09 The line of locals marking Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 assassination by marching down Roemer Boulevard extends the length of Farrell High School in the photograph from Farrell educator Russell C. Phillips. White and black, with the men in coats and ties and the women in dresses, the people in the picture taught students in Vernon Scott’s fourth-grade class an important history lesson. The students realized that we were a part of American history,” Roland Barksdale-Hall said. They also taught Barksdale-Hall a lesson about the power of photographs. It inspired him to compile African Americans in Mercer County” a new book in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series. The 127-page book is like a community scrapbook of the last 150 years of local lore. Included are hundreds of pictures of local families, people at ethnic clubs in Farrell, and at community events. The cover is a picture of the jubilant 1952 Farrell High basketball team that Barksdale-Hall said is representative of the way Farrell is a motley mix of different cultures. Although he’s African American, Barksdale-Hall said his mom spoke Slovak fluently because of the neighbors. The reason I selected (the picture) is to me, this is Farrell,” he said. That’s what (Farrell coach) Ed McCluskey had to pull together. A variety of ethnic groups coming together to succeed.” Barksdale-Hall — known to some as professor” for his scholarly affectations — has been a local history buff since he was in college and wrote a research paper about the Farrell Twin City Elks Lodge. To do the paper, he completed more than 20 oral histories — interviews with local sages and elders who remembered times past. He forged relationships with the elders then and they’ve grown over time. It’s sort of interesting, different people who have passed, they saw my interest and they gave me different papers,” Barksdale-Hall said. They were interested in family histories.” Local African American icon James Elmer Mendez Matthews was the first elected president of the Shenango Valley branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as well as an inventor, steelworker and talented baseball player. When Barksdale-Hall was living in Washington D.C., he and Matthews became pen pals and Matthews gave Barksdale-Hall historic papers. He dedicated the book to Matthews, who would have played professional baseball in the Negro Leagues but for the fact that he could make more money as a Shenango Valley steelworker. Times have changed. And there were others, we would sit down and sometimes have waffles and they would share the stories of the community,” Barksdale-Hall said. They’re folks like Sara Dillard Austin, Ethel McClain, and others who helped him go through the photos and identify the people in them. I had the photos and didn’t have the story,” he said. Getting those stories added a local angle to American and African American history. I was able to take the story of families in our community and place them in the context of history,” Barksdale-Hall said. What’s unique about the book is the speed in which it was published. He sent a proposal to Arcadia, along with a letter from Shenango Valley Urban League Executive Director Michael Wright, in October 2008, telling them he’d like to publish the book in 2009. They were hesitant, because some books like this are years in the making. I said, ‘Yes, I’m sure,’ ” he said. He wanted the book to coincide with the NAACP’s 100th anniversary and Barack Obama’
Copyright Date
2009
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2009-504028
Dewey Decimal
974.8/9500496073
Series
Images of America Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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