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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460778503321

Autore

Taylor Quintard

Titolo

The Forging of a Black Community : Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era / / Quintard Taylor ; foreword by Norm Rice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [1994]

©[1994]

ISBN

0-295-80223-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography

Disciplina

979.7/77200496073

Soggetti

Race relations

African Americans

African Americans - Washington (State) - Seattle - History

History

Electronic books.

Washington (State) Seattle Central District

Washington (State) Seattle

Seattle (Wash.) Race relations

Central District (Seattle, Wash.) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Seattle: The Urban Frontier; Part One. African Americans in a Frontier City, 1860-1899; 1. Origins and Foundations, 1860-1899; Part Two. 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; Part Three. 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; Appendixes; 1. Founding Members of the Seattle NAACP; 2. Black Seattle: The Social Nexus; 3. Growth of Seattle's Black Population, 1860-1990; 4. Seattle's Minority



Population, 1900-1990; Notes; Bibliography; Index;