Strangers in the Land of Paradise: Creation of an African American Community in Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940 new Five years later

Five years later

Love and Perseverance

Amid the scholars

This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books

dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist

Strangers in the Land of Paradise: Creation of an African American Community in Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940 new Five years laterStrangers in the Land of Paradise discusses the creation of an African American community as a distinct cultural entity. It describes values and institutions that Black migrants from the South brought with them, as well as those that evolved as a result of their interaction with Blacks native to the city and the city itself. Through an examination of work, family, community organizations, and political actions, Lillian Williams explores the process by