Author: Charles Louis Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This report is intended to present a cross-section picture of the housing and living conditions among the Negroes in the three Virginia cities of Richmond, Lynchburg, and Charlottesville. The first of these cities is a large and rapidly growing industrial and manufacturing center with a population of nearly 200,000. The population consists almost entirely of native white people and Negroes, and the foreign-born element comprises less than three percent of the population. Both the white and the Negro elements are increasing steadily. Lynchburg is a manufacturing city of increasing importance. Its total population is increasing at a satisfactory rate but its Negro population is constantly diminishing. Charlottesville is a city of approximately 12,000 people. The University of Virginia is located here and is one of the chief sources of the town's prosperity. Since 1910 the total population of Charlottesville has almost doubled, but the Negro population has been practically stationary since the Civil War. -- Preface.
Negro Housing in Certain Virginia Cities
Author: Charles Louis Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This report is intended to present a cross-section picture of the housing and living conditions among the Negroes in the three Virginia cities of Richmond, Lynchburg, and Charlottesville. The first of these cities is a large and rapidly growing industrial and manufacturing center with a population of nearly 200,000. The population consists almost entirely of native white people and Negroes, and the foreign-born element comprises less than three percent of the population. Both the white and the Negro elements are increasing steadily. Lynchburg is a manufacturing city of increasing importance. Its total population is increasing at a satisfactory rate but its Negro population is constantly diminishing. Charlottesville is a city of approximately 12,000 people. The University of Virginia is located here and is one of the chief sources of the town's prosperity. Since 1910 the total population of Charlottesville has almost doubled, but the Negro population has been practically stationary since the Civil War. -- Preface.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This report is intended to present a cross-section picture of the housing and living conditions among the Negroes in the three Virginia cities of Richmond, Lynchburg, and Charlottesville. The first of these cities is a large and rapidly growing industrial and manufacturing center with a population of nearly 200,000. The population consists almost entirely of native white people and Negroes, and the foreign-born element comprises less than three percent of the population. Both the white and the Negro elements are increasing steadily. Lynchburg is a manufacturing city of increasing importance. Its total population is increasing at a satisfactory rate but its Negro population is constantly diminishing. Charlottesville is a city of approximately 12,000 people. The University of Virginia is located here and is one of the chief sources of the town's prosperity. Since 1910 the total population of Charlottesville has almost doubled, but the Negro population has been practically stationary since the Civil War. -- Preface.
Negro Housing
Author: John Matthew Gries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Separate City
Author: Christopher Silver
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the mid-1960s differed markedly from those of their northern counterparts. The African- American community in the South was (and to some extent still is) a physically expansive, distinct, and socially heterogeneous zone within the larger metropolis. It found itself functioning both politically and economically as a "separate city"—a city set apart from its predominantly white counterpart. Within the separate city itself, internal conflicts reflected a structural divide between an empowered black middle class and a larger group comprising the working class and the disadvantaged. Even with these conflicts, the South's new black leadership gained political control in many cities, but it could not overcome the economic forces shaping the metropolis. The persistence of a separate city admitted to the profound ineffectiveness of decades of struggle to eliminate the racial barriers with which southern urban leaders—indeed all urban America—continue to grapple today.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185564
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the mid-1960s differed markedly from those of their northern counterparts. The African- American community in the South was (and to some extent still is) a physically expansive, distinct, and socially heterogeneous zone within the larger metropolis. It found itself functioning both politically and economically as a "separate city"—a city set apart from its predominantly white counterpart. Within the separate city itself, internal conflicts reflected a structural divide between an empowered black middle class and a larger group comprising the working class and the disadvantaged. Even with these conflicts, the South's new black leadership gained political control in many cities, but it could not overcome the economic forces shaping the metropolis. The persistence of a separate city admitted to the profound ineffectiveness of decades of struggle to eliminate the racial barriers with which southern urban leaders—indeed all urban America—continue to grapple today.
The Black Tax
Author: Andrew W. Kahrl
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022673059X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Andrew Kahrl's enraging national assessment of legal and financial dispossession proves that African Americans property owners have long been beset by racist practices, invisible obstacles, and hidden traps that leave them vulnerable to economic predation. Kahrl focuses specially on how property taxes have been used to swindle African Americans out of their land, with the cooperation of public officials and courts. These racist regimes fund and reinforce inequity, with blacks paying more in taxes than whites as they lose tremendous inheritable wealth to whites. There is something more fundamental than the "forty acres" of settlement lore: the taxes on them"--
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022673059X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"Andrew Kahrl's enraging national assessment of legal and financial dispossession proves that African Americans property owners have long been beset by racist practices, invisible obstacles, and hidden traps that leave them vulnerable to economic predation. Kahrl focuses specially on how property taxes have been used to swindle African Americans out of their land, with the cooperation of public officials and courts. These racist regimes fund and reinforce inequity, with blacks paying more in taxes than whites as they lose tremendous inheritable wealth to whites. There is something more fundamental than the "forty acres" of settlement lore: the taxes on them"--
Hampton Institute: Hampton, VA A Classified Catalog of the Negro Collection in the Collis P. Huntington Library
Author:
Publisher: US History Publishers
ISBN: 1603540660
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher: US History Publishers
ISBN: 1603540660
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Negro Housing in Towns and Cities
Author: Russell Sage Foundation. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
A Comparative Study of Contemporary White and Negro Standards in Health, Education and Welfare, Charlottesville Virginia
Author: James Worsham Barksdale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The aim of the present study is to reveal the facts on Negro standards of health, education, and welfare as compared with those of whites in Charlottesville, Virginia. It also attempts to outline present-day conditions among Negroes to discover existing failures and shortcomings, to consider causes, and to offer suggestions on policies which might lead to improvement in their condition. -- Introduction.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The aim of the present study is to reveal the facts on Negro standards of health, education, and welfare as compared with those of whites in Charlottesville, Virginia. It also attempts to outline present-day conditions among Negroes to discover existing failures and shortcomings, to consider causes, and to offer suggestions on policies which might lead to improvement in their condition. -- Introduction.
Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890
Author: Peter J. Rachleff
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
''The best study yet written about the ex-slave as urban wage-earner. It is essential reading for students of Afro-American and working-class history.'' -- Herbert Gutman''This book shows that black and white workers could act together and that a working-class reform movement, at least in one southern city, could challenge the existing status quo. . . . Rachleff presents an interesting story of social, economic, and political intrigue in a post-Civil War urban environment where class was pitted against class and race against race.'' -- C. K. McFarland, Journal of Southern History
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
''The best study yet written about the ex-slave as urban wage-earner. It is essential reading for students of Afro-American and working-class history.'' -- Herbert Gutman''This book shows that black and white workers could act together and that a working-class reform movement, at least in one southern city, could challenge the existing status quo. . . . Rachleff presents an interesting story of social, economic, and political intrigue in a post-Civil War urban environment where class was pitted against class and race against race.'' -- C. K. McFarland, Journal of Southern History
Negro housing
The Journal of Negro History
Author: Carter Godwin Woodson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The scope of the Journal include the broad range of the study of Afro-American life and history.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
The scope of the Journal include the broad range of the study of Afro-American life and history.