Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue. Race and Meaning in Missouri History: A Personal Journey
Chapter 1. Some Aspects of Black Education in Reconstruction Missouri: An Address by Richard B. Foster
Chapter 2. Pennytown: A Freedmen’s Hamlet, 1871–1945
Chapter 3. “Yours for the Race”: The Life and Work of Josephine Silone Yates
Chapter 4. The World of Make-Believe: James Milton Turner and Black Masonry
Chapter 5. George Washington Carver’s Missouri
Chapter 6. Nathaniel C. Bruce, Black Education, and the “Tuskegee of the Midwest”
Chapter 7. “The Black People Did the Work”: African American Life in Arrow Rock, Missouri, 1850–1960
Chapter 8. “Just like the Garden of Eden”: African American Community Life in Kansas City’s Leeds
Chapter 9. The Whitley Sisters Remember: Living with Segregation in Kansas City, Missouri
Chapter 10. The Missouri Industrial Home for Negro Girls: The 1930s
Chapter 11. Black Culture Mecca of the Midwest: Lincoln University, 1921–1955
Chapter 12. Lake Placid: “A Recreational Center for Colored People” in the Missouri Ozarks
Chapter 13. William J. Thompkins: African American Physician, Politician, and Publisher
Chapter 14. The Abraham Lincoln Legacy in Missouri
Epilogue. New Sources and Directions for Research on the African American Experience in Missouri
Notes
Index