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Author Svenson, Sally E., author

Title Blacks in the Adirondacks : a history / Sally E. Svenson ; with an afterword by Alice Paden Green
Edition First edition
Published Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2017
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 363 pages)
Contents Slavery: backdrop to the Adirondack story -- Gerrit Smith: Essex and Franklin County colonists -- Soldiers of the Civil War -- Wartime and early postwar migration -- Making a living -- Railroad building -- The summer resort industry -- Resort entertainment: employees and students -- Baseball, and a little basketball -- Saranac Lake and tuberculosis -- Community life in Saranac Lake -- Popular culture: professional performers -- Lake Placid and the John Brown Memorial Association -- Public and publicly supported institutions -- Miners of Moriah -- Pullman porters: railroad stories -- The twentieth-century military -- Tourism -- 1940 to 1950 and beyond
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 27, 2017)
Subject African Americans -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains -- History
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains -- Biography
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
African Americans
SUBJECT Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) -- History, Local
Subject New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Local history
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017038208
ISBN 9780815654216
0815654219