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Black Broadway in Washington, D.C.

Title
Black Broadway in Washington, D.C. / Briana A. Thomas ; foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Author
Thomas, Briana A.
Publication
  • Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
Description
188 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 23 cm
Summary
"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 struggle of gentrifiction"--
Subject
  • African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > History
  • African Americans > Civil rights > History. > Washington (D.C.)
  • Gentrification > Washington (D.C.) > History
  • African Americans
  • U Street (Washington, D.C.) > History
  • Washington (D.C.) > History
  • Washington (D.C.)
  • Washington (D.C.) > U Street
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178) and index.
Contents
Foreword / by Eleanor Holmes Norton -- A Blow to Slavery Everywhere -- The Black Mecca -- The Great Betrayal -- Stick-to-It-tiveness -- New Slavery versus New Negro -- You Street -- Set the Colored Man Free -- If We Own the Story, We Own the Place.
Call Number
Sc E 22-845
ISBN
  • 1467139297
  • 9781467139298
LCCN
2020944234
OCLC
1200028938
Author
Thomas, Briana A., author.
Title
Black Broadway in Washington, D.C. / Briana A. Thomas ; foreword by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Publisher
Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178) and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Norton, Eleanor Holmes, writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
Sc E 22-845
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