We Ask Only a Fair Trial

<p>Despite its growth as an industrial center Evansville remained heavily influenced by the virulent racism of its antebellum past. Bigham traces the devlopment of a black community focusing on the origin and nature of the obstacles to equal opportunity. He reveals however that black Evansvillians built a richly variegated subculture relying heavily on their own resources and occasional assistance from sympathetic whites.</p>