Author: James Walker Hood
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Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: Laura Rice
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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A stunning visual accompaniment to the history of the state with 330 full color reproductions from the glory days of Maryland printmaking, with accompanying essays.

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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: W. Edward Orser
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813148316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.

Author: Methodist Episcopal Church. Baltimore Conference
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Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: William Hand Browne
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Includes the proceedings of the Society.

Author: Frank D. Haimbaugh
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Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: James Sprunt
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774

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Author: John Brevard Alexander
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Category : Mecklenburg County (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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