The Garden of Eden : the story of a freedmen's community in Texas /

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Tucked in a bend of the Trinity River a few minutes from downtown Fort Worth, the Garden of Eden neighborhood has endured for well over a century as a homeplace for freed African American slaves and their descendants. Among the earliest inhabitants in the Garden, Major and Malinda Cheney assembled o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sanders, Drew, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fort Worth, Texas : TCU Press, [2015]
Temas:
African Americans > Texas > Tarrant County > Biography.
Freed persons > Texas > Tarrant County > Biography.
African American families > Texas > Tarrant County > History.
Community life > Texas > Tarrant County > History.
African American neighborhoods > Texas > Tarrant County > History.
African American neighborhoods > Texas > Fort Worth > History.
Noirs américains > Texas > Tarrant (Comté) > Biographies.
Personnes affranchies > Texas > Tarrant (Comté) > Biographies.
Familles noires américaines > Texas > Tarrant (Comté) > Histoire.
Communauté > Texas > Tarrant (Comté) > Histoire.
Quartiers noirs américains > Texas > Tarrant (Comté) > Histoire.
Quartiers noirs américains > Texas > Fort Worth > Histoire.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African American families
African American neighborhoods
African Americans
Community life
Freed persons
Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) > History.
Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) > Biography.
Garden of Eden (Fort Worth, Tex.) > Genealogy.
Texas > Fort Worth
Texas > Tarrant County
Electronic books.
Biographies
Genealogy
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Loyds and the long road to Texas
  • Navidad Nation: the Cheney family in Lavaca County
  • Birdville: setting the stage for the Garden of Eden
  • Aunt Doll and the Sam Bass stories: Major Cheney comes of age
  • Early life in the Garden of Eden
  • Other African American communities in Tarrant County and how they relate to the Garden of Eden
  • The Cheney children
  • Sand and gravel
  • Unraveling: a new generation and depressing times
  • Use it up, wear it out, make it do
  • A new generation of Sanderses
  • Rebuilding community in the twenty-first century
  • Appendix: Family connections [family trees].

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