"Up South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians in turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. While Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern civil rights struggle, the city was home to a vibrant and grou…
Matthew Countryman traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. He explores the origins of civil rights liberalism, the failure to deliver on the promise of racial equality and t…
"Up South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians in turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. While Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern civil rights struggle, the city was home to a vibrant and grou…