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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Black gods of the metropolis Black gods of the metropolis Arthur Huff Fauset "From his anthropological fieldwork among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream blac… OL1199489W
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso Hannah Mary Tabbs and the disembodied torso Kali N. Gross Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George W… OL20023192W
The Philadelphia Negro The Philadelphia Negro Lawrence Bobo,Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,Elijah Anderson,W. E. B. Du Bois,Isabel Eaton In 1897 a young sociologist who was already marked as a scholar of the highest promise submitted to the American Association of Political and Social Sciences a "plan for the study of the Negro proble… OL28609W
Kidnappers in Philadelphia Kidnappers in Philadelphia Isaac T. Hopper "Presents the original seventy-nine compiled narratives and eight new items, "The life of Cooper," plus seven newly discovered slave narratives published by Isaac Hopper in the National anti-slavery … OL3469163W