The forging of a black community : Seattle's Central District, from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era /
Through much of the twentieth century, black Seattle was synonymous with the Central District - a four-square-mile section near the geographic center of the city. Quintard Taylor explores the evolution of this community from its first few residents in the 1870s to a population of nearly forty thousa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
c1994.
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Colección: | The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Norm Rice
- Introduction. Seattle: The Urban Frontier
- pt. 1. African Americans in a Frontier City, 1860-1899. 1. Origins and Foundations, 1860-1899
- pt. 2. The Black Community Emerges, 1900-1940. 2. Employment and Economics, 1900-1940. 3. Housing, Civil Rights, and Politics, 1900-1940. 4. Blacks and Asians in a White City, 1870-1942. 5. The Forging of a Black Community Ethos, 1900-1940
- pt. 3. Black Seattle in the Modern Era, 1941-1970. 6. The Transformation of the Central District, 1941-1960. 7. From "Freedom Now" to "Black Power," 1961-1970
- Conclusion: Black Seattle, Past, Present, and Future
- App. 1. Founding Members of the Seattle NAACP
- App. 2. Black Seattle: The Social Nexus
- App. 3. Growth of Seattle's Black Population, 1860-1990
- App. 4. Seattle's Minority Population, 1900-1990.