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Trotter,, Joe William was born on June 18, 1945 in Vallscreek, West Virginia, United States. Son of Joe William and Thelma Odell Trotter.
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( Other historians have tended to treat black urban life ...)
Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter’s ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee’s black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter’s colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.
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(Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represen...)
Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It provided a passage to freedom along the underground railroad, and during the industrial age, it was a boundary between the Jim Crow South and the urban North. The Ohio became known as the "River Jordan," symbolizing the path to the promised land. In the urban centers of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, blacks faced racial hostility from outside their immediate neighborhoods as well as class, color, and cultural fragmentation among themselves. Yet despite these pressures, African Americans were able to create vibrant new communities as former agricultural workers transformed themselves into a new urban working class. Unlike most studies of black urban life, Trotter's work considers several cities and compares their economic conditions, demographic makeup, and political and cultural conditions. Beginning with the arrival of the first blacks in the Ohio Valley, Trotter traces the development of African American urban centers through the civil rights movement and the developments of recent years.
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Trotter,, Joe William was born on June 18, 1945 in Vallscreek, West Virginia, United States. Son of Joe William and Thelma Odell Trotter.
Associate of Arts, Kendall College, 1967. Bachelor, Carthage College, 1969. Master of Arts, University Minnesota, 1978.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1980.
Social studies teacher Tremper Senior High School, Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1969—1975. Adult education instructor Gateway Technology Institute, 1970—1973. Instructor department history University Minnesota, 1977—1979, visiting professor department history, 1993.
Assistant professor department history University California-Davis, 1981—1984, associate professor department history, 1984—1985, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1985—1989, professor department history, 1990—1996, Mellon professor history, since 1996, head department history, since 2001. Director Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy, since 1995. Editorial board member Journal Urban History, Thousand Oaks, California, since 1997, Labor History, London, 1991—2003, Journal American Ethnic History, Piscataway, New Jersey, since 1991, Pennsylvania History, Middletown, since 1987, Labor, Durham, North Carolina, since 2003, Ohio Valley History, since 2002, Journal of America History, Bloomington, Indiana, 1992—1995, Pennsylvania History, Middletown, Pennsylvania, since 1987.
( Other historians have tended to treat black urban life ...)
(Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represen...)
Speaker National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Arlington, Virginia, 1992, 19th district, Homewood Brushton, Pittsburgh, 1999. Keynote speaker Lemington Elder Care Superior vena cava syndrome /, 2002. President Kenosha Black Caucus, 1972—1974.
Speaker Friendship Baptist Church, Massillon, Ohio, 2001. Member of Labor and Working Class History Association, American Studies Association, Southern History Association, Pennsylvania History Association, Pittsburgh Center for Social History, Urban History Association, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, American History Association, Organization American Historians.
Married H. LaRue Mack, May 19, 1972.
