TY - BOOK ID - 145556049 TI - Black citymakers : how the Philadelphia negro changed urban America PY - 2013 SN - 9780199333202 PB - New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African Americans KW - African Americans KW - African Americans KW - Urban policy KW - Urban policy KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - History & Archaeology KW - United States Local History KW - African Americans KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - History KW - History KW - History. KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) KW - History. KW - Race relations. KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145556049 AB - 'Black Citymakers' revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's 'The Philadelphia Negro' over the twentieth century. Hunter's analysis demonstrates that black Philadelphians were by not mere victims of large scale socio-economic and political change, but active participants influencing the direction of urban policy and change. ER -