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Recent
Works
Materials
on Connecticut blacks during the past two decades tend to be more
sociological than historical, and students of the subject would
best turn to searching aids that list only recent works. Government
and foundation publications and journalistic accounts might be
fruitful. A few are listed here.
Connecticut
Commission on Civil Rights. Attitudes Toward Racial Integration
in Connecticut, Hartford, 1961.
Connecticut
Inter-racial Commission. Report. Hartford, 1944. National
Urban League. A Study of the Social And Economic Conditions
of the Negro Population of New London New York, 1944. An excellent
compendium of facts.
Davis,
Hugh. "Northern Colonizationsts and Free Blacks, 1823-1837:
A Case Study of Leonard Bacon," Journal of the Early Republic
17 (Winter, 1997) 4 651-675. Bacon was all for giving African-Americans
the same opportunities as whites in every way. But he didn't think
that they had the ability to rise far out of menial jobs and near
poverty. He opposed immediate abolition; worked for the colonization
of free blacks; and maintained his hard-won position in middle-class
society. ". . . both class and racial considerations shaped
his conviction that free blacks were not only partly responsible
for their plight but also were unwitting pawns in the hands of
abolitionists and did not know what was best for themselves."
P. 673
Marcin,
Raymond B. "Nineteenth century de jure school segregation
in Connecticut." Connecticut Bar Journal, (Dec. 1971).
A short sketch describing some colonial black laws, then focusing
on segregation rules established in Hartford where there was one
school set aside for black children in 1868 -- the Pearl Street
Colored School. The General Assembly then passed legislation mandating
open enrollment. The author points to intensified segregation
in inner-city schools and to the State's failure to deal effectively
with the problem.
Pearson,
Ralph L. “Interracial Conflict in Twentieth-Century Connecticut
Cities:
The
Demographic Factor.” Connecticut History 17(January, 1976).
Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, and Waterbury analyzed by an
urban historian.
Sheehy,
Gail. Panthermania: The Clash of Black against Black in One
American City. New York: Harper and Row, 1971. New Haven and
the Black Panthers. Journalism.
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