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

Title
The forging of a Black community : Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era / Quintard Taylor ; forewords by Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica and Norman Rice ; afterword by Albert S. Broussard.
Author
Taylor, Quintard
Publication
Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [2022]

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Additional Authors
  • Cobbins-Modica, Quin'Nita
  • Rice, Norman B.
  • Broussard, Albert S.
Description
xxiv, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a full-fledged city, African Americans began to stay and build a community. By the early twentieth century, black life in Seattle coalesced in the Central District, a four-square-mile section east of downtown. Black Seattle, however, was never a monolith. Through world wars, economic booms and busts, and the civil rights movement, black residents and leaders negotiated intragroup conflicts and had varied approaches to challenging racial inequity. Despite these differences, they nurtured a distinct African American culture and black urban community ethos. With a new foreword and afterword, this second edition of The Forging of a Black Community is essential to understanding the history and present of the largest black community in the Pacific Northwest"--
Series Statement
Emil and Kathleen Sick book series in Western history and biography
Uniform Title
Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
Subject
  • African Americans > Washington (State) > Seattle > History
  • African Americans
  • Race relations
  • Central District (Seattle, Wash.) > Race relations
  • Seattle (Wash.) > Race relations > History
  • United States > Race relations
  • Washington (State) > Seattle
  • Washington (State) > Seattle > Central District
  • Washington (State) > Southeast Seattle
  • United States
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. ONE AFRICAN AMERICANS IN A FRONTIER CITY, 1860-1899 -- 1. Origins and Foundations, 1860-1899 -- pt. 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 120 -- 5. The forging of a black community ethos, 1900-1940 -- pt. 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," 1960-1970 -- Afterword / Albert S. Broussard -- Appendixes -- 1. Founding Members of the Seattle NAACP, October 23, 1913 -- 2. Black Seattle: The Social Nexus -- 3. Growth of Seattle's Black Population, 1860-2010 -- 4. Seattle's Minority Population, 7900-2010.
Call Number
Sc E 23-73
ISBN
  • 9780295750644
  • 0295750642
  • 9780295750415
  • 0295750413
  • 9780295750651 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2021055881
OCLC
1286675918
Author
Taylor, Quintard, author.
Title
The forging of a Black community : Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era / Quintard Taylor ; forewords by Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica and Norman Rice ; afterword by Albert S. Broussard.
Publisher
Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [2022]
Edition
Second edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Emil and Kathleen Sick book series in Western history and biography
Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Cobbins-Modica, Quin'Nita, writer of foreword.
Rice, Norman B., writer of foreword.
Broussard, Albert S., author of afterword.
Other Form:
Online version: Taylor, Quintard. Forging of a black community Second edition. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2022 9780295750651 (DLC) 2021055882
Research Call Number
Sc E 23-73
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