April 20, 2023
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A NEW BOOK, EMMA’S POSTCARD ALBUM, PORTRAYS RACISM AND BLACK CULTURE THROUGH THE POSTCARDS OF A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
In a new book, Emma’s Postcard Album, Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century, author Faith Mitchell tells her family story through her grandmother’s 1906 to 1910 postcard collection, providing an authentic narrative of African American culture in an overtly racist society, where lynchings, segregation, and discrimination were all commonplace. The setting is Southeastern Pennsylvania, where teenager Emma Crawford received postcards from family, friends, and admirers that chronicle the world they lived in.