Philly Black History Syllabus

 billypen.com 2017/02/08/

The Philly Black History Syllabus: 13 must-read books to understand our city, by Cassie Owens

Philly has made a lot of black history. Nearly 690,000 African Americans live in the city.

• And so, with this large and longstanding community, there’s no shortage of institutions to honor and stars to remember during Black History Month.
  • So if you wanted to get a strong grasp of this history, what books should you read?

Read the original article for author Cassie Owens' comments on each book

Links to buy the books:

1. The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. DuBois
2. Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910, Kali N. Gross
3. Saved and Sanctified: Saved and Sanctified: The Rise of a Storefront Church in Great Migration Philadelphia, Deidre Helen Crumbley
4. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, Isabel Wilkerson
5. The Journey of John W. Mosley, Charles L. Blockson
6. Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class, Lawrence Otis Graham
7. A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia, Lisa Levenstein
8. Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love, James Wolfinger
9. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia, Matthew J. Countryman
10. The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia, Matthew F. Delmont