Built by the people themselves : African American community development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through civil rights /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bestebreurtje, Lindsey (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2024]
Subjects:	Community development > Virginia > Arlington > History. African Americans > Virginia > Arlington > History > 19th century. African Americans > Virginia > Arlington > History > 20th century. Freed persons > Virginia > Arlington County > History > 19th century. Freedman's Village (Arlington County, Va.) > History. Arlington (Va.) > History. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Arlington's people and communities
"Where they had lived undistrubed for nearly a quarter of a century": Freedman's Village and the expansion of Black Arlington
"Gone out to do for themselves": the Freedman's Village diaspora and Arlington's suburban villages
"Suburban homes ... in sight of the monument": streetcar suburbs and white Arlington's expanding control
"So that we may occupy our rightful place": population boom and changing realities for Black Arlingtonians
"Everybody was coming to Washington in those days": the arrival of war workers and Arlington's suburban explosion
"We cannot lose this fight as we lost our freedoms during Reconstruction days": politics, school integration, and neighborhood preservation
An end to residential segregation.