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- Title
THE POLITICAL WORK OF LEISURE: CLASS, RECREATION, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMEMORATION AT HARPERS FERRY, WEST VIRGINIA, 1881-1931.
- Authors
Kahrl, Andrew W.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the impact of leisure on debates about the role of public conduct, history and memory, and racial uplift among African Americans through citing their exclusion from the summer boarding accommodations imposed by the Storer College, which was located on Camp Hill in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. J. R. Clifford fought for the preservation of summer boarding for blacks at Storer College. Storer officials perceive the excursions as distraction from hard labor of racial uplift and encouraging blacks to have lifestyles that they are not suited. The leisurely pursuits of African Americans and Clifford's efforts to protect them from the effects of Jim Crow laws signify the importance of securing the space for blacks.
- Subjects
HARPERS Ferry (W. Va.); WEST Virginia; AFRICAN American social conditions; JIM Crow laws; AFRICAN American social life &; customs; PUBLIC spaces; RACISM; CLIFFORD, J. R.
- Publication
Journal of Social History, 2008, Vol 42, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
0022-4529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jsh.0.0038