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Black Broadway in Washington, D.C.
2021
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Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses here and built what was often described as a "city within a city." Local author and journalist Briana A. Thomas narrates U Street's rich and unique history, from the early triumph of emancipation to the days of civil rights pioneer Mary Church Terrell and music giant Duke Ellington, through the recent struggles of gentrification. - (Arcadia Publishing)

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Foreword 9(4)
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Acknowledgements 13(2)
1 A Blow to Slavery Everywhere
15(21)
2 The Black Mecca
36(15)
3 The Great Betrayal
51(17)
4 Stick-to-It-tiveness
68(14)
5 New Slavery versus New Negro
82(21)
6 You Street
103(27)
7 Set the Colored Man Free
130(15)
8 If We Own the Story, We Own the Place
145(12)
Epilogue 157(6)
Notes 163(16)
Index 179(10)
About the Author 189

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