Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 Jr., Joe William Trotter

Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach.s; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter’s ground-breaking study.

This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on e antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee’s black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter’s colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewipact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years.