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- Author : Briana A Thomas
- Publsiher : Arcadia Publishing
- Release : 10 September 2018
- ISBN : 1439671877
- Pages : 176 pages
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
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Read or download book entitled Black Broadway in Washington D C written by Briana A Thomas which was release on 10 September 2018, this book published by Arcadia Publishing. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. Book excerpt: A history of the African American neighborhood and its remarkable residents in our nation’s capital. Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington’s Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses here and built what was often described as a “city within a city.” Local author and journalist Briana A. Thomas narrates U Street’s rich and unique history, from the early triumph of emancipation to the days of civil rights pioneer Mary Church Terrell and music giant Duke Ellington, through the recent struggles of gentrification. “[An] engaging and compelling history. A skillful storyteller, Thomas brings the neighborhood’s people to life; and what a list of neighbors they are: Marion Barry; “Cool Papa” Bell; Mary McLeod Bethune; Ralph Bunche; Stokely Carmichael; Kenneth B. Clark; Anna Julia Cooper; Rev. Alexander Crummell; Charles H. Drew; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington; E. Franklin Frazier; Bishop C. M. “Sweet Daddy” Grace; the Grimké’s Angelina, Archibald, and Francis; Buck Leonard; A. Philip Randolph; Mary Church Terrell; and Carter G. Woodson, to name just a few. . . . Thomas makes them all—and perhaps even more importantly, many unknown everyday U Streeters—fully alive. Pick up her book and all doubts about the importance of the Nation’s Capital for American life will disappear.” —Blair A. Ruble, author of Washington’s U Street: A Biography
- Author : Briana A Thomas
- Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
- Release Date : 2018-09-10
- Total pages : 176
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : A history of the African American neighborhood and its remarkable residents in our nation’s capital. Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington’s Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans ...
- Author : Judson L. Jeffries
- Publisher : University of Georgia Press
- Release Date : 2018-02-01
- Total pages : 218
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : This is the third volume in Judson L. Jeffries’s long-range effort to paint a more complete portrait of the most widely known organization to emerge from the 1960s Black Power Movement. Like its predecessors (Comrades: A Local History of the Black Panther Party [2007] and On the Ground: The Black ...
- Author : Robert Harrison
- Publisher : Cambridge University Press
- Release Date : 2011-08-15
- Total pages : 212
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : In this provocative study, Robert Harrison provides new insight into grassroots reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of those most deeply affected, the newly emancipated African Americans. Harrison argues that the District of Columbia, far from being marginal to the Reconstruction story, was central to Republican efforts ...
- Author : Booker T Washington,Geraldine E McTigue,Louis R Harlan
- Publisher : University of Illinois Press
- Release Date : 1981-08
- Total pages : 688
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : The memoirs and accounts of the Black educator are presented with letters, speeches, personal documents, and other writings reflecting his life and career....
- Author : Ted Leavengood
- Publisher : McFarland
- Release Date : 2006-09-19
- Total pages : 279
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : Here is the story of the 2005 Washington Nationals. Told from a fan's perspective, the narrative begins inside RFK on opening day, expressing the simple pleasures of baseball that 34 years couldn't erase. As the team took one series after another, baseball fans quickly forgot that many on the roster had ever ...
- Author : Raymond Smock
- Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
- Release Date : 2009
- Total pages : 223
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : Interprets the life of Booker T. Washington, exploring his rise from slavery to become an influential educator and African American leader....
- Author : Terry Allan Hicks
- Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
- Release Date : 2014-01-01
- Total pages : 80
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : This book explores the geography, climate, history, people, government, and economy of Washington, D.C. All books in the It's My State! ® series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, ...
- Author : Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult,Paul Gardullo
- Publisher : Smithsonian Books
- Release Date : 2009-01-07
- Total pages : 224
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : Nearly a century's worth of Scurlock photographs combine to form a searing portrait of black Washington in all its guises—its challenges and its victories, its dignity and its determination. Beginning in the early twentieth century and continuing into the 1990s, Addison Scurlock, followed by his sons, Robert and George, ...
- Author : Derek Gray
- Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
- Release Date : 2022-03-07
- Total pages : 128
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : Founded in March 1912, DC branch of the NAACP quickly became the leading organization advocating for the city's Black community. President Woodrow Wilson's institution of Jim Crow segregation in the federal government in the spring of 1913 galvanized the African American community of DC and the NAACP launched a formidable crusade against ...
- Author : Raymond Smock
- Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Release Date : 2006
- Total pages : 230
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : An important companion volume to Louis R. Harlan's prize-winning biography of Booker T. Washington that collects Harlan's essays on the life and career of the celebrated black leader...
- Author : Jacqueline M. Moore
- Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
- Release Date : 2003
- Total pages : 194
- ISBN : 1439671877
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- Author : Hamilton Cravens
- Publisher : Rutgers University Press
- Release Date : 2004
- Total pages : 254
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : What happens when the allegedly value-free social sciences enter the national political arena? In The Social Sciences Go to Washington, scholars examine the effects of the massive influx of sociologists, demographers, economists, educators, and others to the federal advisory process in the postwar period. Essays look at how these social ...
- Author : Roberta J. Newman,Joel Nathan Rosen
- Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Release Date : 2014-03-03
- Total pages : 254
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : Roberta J. Newman and Joel Nathan Rosen have written an authoritative social history of the Negro Leagues. This book examines how the relationship between black baseball and black businesses functioned, particularly in urban areas with significant African American populations—Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Newark, New York, Philadelphia, and more. ...
- Author : Torrey Maloof
- Publisher : Triangle Interactive, Inc.
- Release Date : 2018-03-29
- Total pages : 212
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : Read Along or Enhanced eBook: This intriguing nonfiction book builds literacy skills while immersing students in subject area content. You Are There! March on Washington, August 28, 1963 brings this historic day to life, and highlights the critical details of the march and explores its aftermath and effects. Developed by Timothy Rasinski ...
- Author : Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
- Publisher : McFarland
- Release Date : 2013-03-11
- Total pages : 220
- ISBN : 1439671877
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Summary : "Ford and Carver had a unique friendship and a shared vision. This book details their paths to "green" manufacturing and the start of the chemurgic movement in America. The story shows how capitalism can drive the green movement and expand American industry"--Provided by publisher....
