African Americans in the Furniture City Barbara A. Golden Before you became a teacher

Before you became a teacher

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African Americans in the Furniture City Barbara A. Golden Before you became a teacherAfrican Americans in the Furniture City is unique not only in terms of its subject, but also for its framing of the African American struggle for survival, civil rights, and community inside a discussion of the larger white community. Examining the African American community of Grand Rapids, Michigan between 1850 and 1954, Randal Maurice Jelks uncovers the ways in which its members faced urbanization, responded to structural racism, developed in terms