"Harrisburg's Historic African American Community: An Interview with Ca" by James LaGrand and David Pettegrew
 

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2020

Abstract

This excerpted oral history with Calobe Jackson Jr., prominent citizen and local historian, discusses Harrisburg's African American community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, relationships between the city's black and white population, the City Beautiful movement, and the Commonwealth Monument Project.

Comments

This edited collection was developed and published in tandem with the IIPT-Commonwealth Monument Project (2018-2020), with support and funding from Messiah University's Center for Public Humanities and the Council of Independent College's Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant Program.

Originally published as:
LaGrand, James B., and David Pettegrew (2020). Harrisburg's Historic African American Community: An Interview with Calobe Jackson Jr., Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 87(1), 212-224. https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.87.1.0212.

“Used with permission from Penn State University Press.”

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