Fair Treatment? African-American Presence at International Expositions in the South, 1884 - 1902
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- title
- Fair Treatment? African-American Presence at International Expositions in the South, 1884 - 1902
- author
- Cromwell, Sara S.
- abstract
- The South hosted four major international expositions between 1884 and 1902 in New Orleans, Atlanta, Nashville, and Charleston. African Americans were granted a surprisingly high level of recognition at these fairs given their status as second-class citizens, and the rise of Jim Crow, disfranchisement, and racial violence during this time period. This study examines the details of African-American presence and representation at each of these fairs and how the changing state of race relations in the South at the turn of the century influenced interactions between blacks and whites at the expositions.
- subject
- African American
- Atlanta
- international exposition
- Nashville
- New Orleans
- world's fair
- contributor
- Parent, Anthony S (committee chair)
- Simonelli, Jeanne M (committee member)
- Hayes, John (committee member)
- date
- 2011-02-16T21:42:14Z (accessioned)
- 2011-02-16T21:42:14Z (available)
- 2010 (issued)
- degree
- Liberal Studies (MALS) (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/30396 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- type
- Thesis