Built by Blacks : African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia
Title:
Built by Blacks : African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia
Author:
Richardson, Selden.
ISBN:
9780615136332
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Richmond, VA : Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, c2007.
Physical Description:
vi, 160 p. [pap] : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Contents:
The beginning : early slavery and early buildings -- The slave markets in Shockoe Valley -- Urban plantations and the Civil War -- Black entrepreneurs, designers, craftsmen & builders -- The new architects : Jackson Ward & Church Hill -- Virginia Union University & Frederick Douglass Court -- Highways and expressways : Navy Hill -- Urban destruction as urban renewal : Fulton -- A community saved : Westwood -- The city's Black churches -- Richmond's African American cemeteries.
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