The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition
, by Rydell, Robert W.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780252067846 | 0252067843
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/1999
Expressly intended to demonstrate America's national progress toward utopia, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago pointedly excluded the contributions of African Americans. For them, being left outside the gates of the "White City" merely underscored a more general exclusion from America's bright future.