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Strangers in the Land of Paradise
The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, NY, 1900 1940
Lillian Serece Williams

Examines the settlement of African Americans in Buffalo during the Great Migration.

"A splendid contribution to the fields of African-American and American urban, social and family history.... expanding the tradition that is now well underway of refuting the pathological emphasis of the prevailing ghetto studies of the 1960s and 70s." Joe W. Trotter

Strangers in the Land of Paradise discusses the creation of an...