Emma's Postcard Album
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Emma's Postcard Album

Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century

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Emma's Postcard Album

Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century

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BCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings, mob attacks, and rampant Jim Crow segregation. During these bleak years, Emma Crawford, a young African American woman living in Pennsylvania, corresponded by postcard with friends and family members and collected the cards she received from all over the country. Her album—spanning from 1906 to 1910 and analyzed in Emma's Postcard Album —becomes an entry point into a deeply textured understanding of the nuances and complexities of African American lives and the survival strategies that enabled people "to make a way from no way." As snippets of lived experience, eye-catching visual images, and reflections of historical moments, the cards in the collection become sources for understanding not only African American life, but also broader American history and culture. In Emma's Postcard Album, Faith Mitchell innovatively places the contents of this postcard collection into specific historic and biographical contexts and provides a new interpretation of postcards as life writings, a much-neglected aspect of scholarship. Through these techniques, a riveting world that is far too little known is revealed, and new insights are gained into the perspectives and experience of African Americans. Capping off these contributions, the text is a visual feast, illustrated with arresting images from the Golden Age of postcards as well as newspaper clippings and other archival material.

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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Year
2022
ISBN
9781496843203
Topic
History
Subtopic
African American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: Emma Crawford’s Postcard Collection
  7. Chapter One: What Stories Can Postcards Tell?
  8. Chapter Two: The Status of the Negro in This Country
  9. Chapter Three: Fighting for Their Daily Bread
  10. Chapter Four: Romance and Friendship
  11. Chapter Five: On the Road with the Minstrel Show
  12. Chapter Six: Struggling and Striving
  13. Epilogue
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Author