The forging of a black community : Seattle's Central District, from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era

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...

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Main Author: Taylor, Quintard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1994
Series:The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
Subjects:
African Americans > Washington (State) > Seattle > History.
Central District (Seattle, Wash.) > Race relations.
Seattle (Wash.) > Race relations.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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