Dark Sleeve of History No More
3 April 2011
But the story didn’t begin in 1919, which is the very point of two new books, one centered in New York, the other in Philadelphia. One must pull the curtain back even as far back as the late 18th century.
Posts tagged with “African-American History”
Fables of the Reconstruction
5 November 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
One doesn’t need a book like this to understand the amalgam of failure, disappointment and resilience that the civil rights struggle produced. It’s plainly here, in the sometimes disheartening, sometimes exhilarating fact of this great black city.
Anniversaries
4 April 2008 | Philly Skyline
I’ve only missed two Philadelphia springs since 1988, the last being a decade ago, in 1998. Beau Monde, at 6th and Bainbridge, opened then, while I was bungling French at photo school in Paris and my wife Rona was learning how to make sauces at the Ritz Escoffier.
Saving Race
27 March 2008 | Philadelphia City Paper
The original hope of economic justice got pushed aside in favor of campaigns for integration, education and self-esteem. “This new civil rights would prove fundamentally unable to redress the economic hierarchies of Jim Crow America,” says Goluboff of the movement’s ultimate focus on these softer targets.