TY - BOOK ID - 85670120 TI - Fight like a tiger : Conway Barbour and the challenges of the black middle class in nineteenth-century America PY - 2018 SN - 0809336782 0809336774 9780809336784 9780809336777 PB - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Middle class African Americans KW - African Americans KW - Middle class KW - History KW - Barbour, Conway, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85670120 AB - "Tracing Barbour's life and economic adventures across four states, the book finds a budding middle class that was both empowered and impatient for tangible evidence of its success. Barbour's experiences reveal the obstacles facing people of color struggling to maintain a foothold in the middle class during the Civil War era"-- ER -