America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy - Hardcover

America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy - Hardcover

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America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy - Hardcover
  • America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy - Hardcover
America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy - Hardcover

America's Black Capital: How African Americans Remade Atlanta in the Shadow of the Confederacy - Hardcover

$35.00
$35.00

by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar (Author)

The 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 Biography

Jeffrey 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.

Number of Pages: 544
Dimensions: 1.9 x 9.4 x 6.3 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 14, 2023

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