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The Black West
a documentary and pictorial history of the African American role in the westward expansion of the United States
By Katz, William Loren
- ISBN
- 978-0-76791-231-0
- Publisher
- New York : Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, c2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 5, 2005
"No phase of our national heritage has been portrayed . . . as more typically American than the old West," Katz writes, "yet this particular slice of Americana has consistently been pictured as lily-white." The indefatigable author of more than three-score books about American history, more than a dozen of which treat African American history, Katz sets the record straight in this revised and expanded version of his 1971 edition. The book opens with a brief treatment of the early African presence in the Ne...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
