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America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781541601994)
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xThe remarkable story of how African Americans transformed Atlanta, the former heart of the Confederacy, into today's Black mecca
Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital of the Confederacy. Sixty years later, long after the Civil War, it was the Ku Klux Klan's sacred "Imperial City." America's Black Capital chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement. What drove them, historian Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar shows, was the belief that Black uplift would be best advanced by forging Black institutions. America's Black Capital is an inspiring story of Black achievement against all odds, with effects that reached far beyond Georgia, shaping the nation's popular culture, public policy, and politics.
Author: Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
ISBN-10: 1541601998
ISBN-13: 9781541601994
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.90d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/11/2023
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2023
Atlanta is home to some of America's most prominent Black politicians, artists, businesses, and HBCUs. Yet, in 1861, Atlanta was a final contender to be the capital of the Confederacy. Sixty years later, long after the Civil War, it was the Ku Klux Klan's sacred "Imperial City." America's Black Capital chronicles how a center of Black excellence emerged amid virulent expressions of white nationalism, as African Americans pushed back against Confederate ideology to create an extraordinary locus of achievement. What drove them, historian Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar shows, was the belief that Black uplift would be best advanced by forging Black institutions. America's Black Capital is an inspiring story of Black achievement against all odds, with effects that reached far beyond Georgia, shaping the nation's popular culture, public policy, and politics.
Author: Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
ISBN-10: 1541601998
ISBN-13: 9781541601994
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.90d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/11/2023
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2023
By Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar
xJeffrey O. G. Ogbar is professor of history and founding director of the Center for the Study of Popular Music at the University of Connecticut. He earned his PhD in US history from Indiana University Bloomington and his BA in history from Morehouse College in Atlanta. He lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
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