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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wellman, Judith
Titre(s) : Brooklyn's promised land [Texte imprimé] : the free black community of Weeksville, New York / Judith Wellman
Publication : New York : New York University Press, copyright 2014
Description matérielle : xii, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that
remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses
on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance
of this place
Sujet(s) : Noirs américains -- New York (États-Unis ; État) -- Histoire
New York (N.Y., États-Unis) -- District de Brooklyn -- Histoire
New York (N.Y., États-Unis) -- Quartier de Weeksville -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
974.7 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - New-York (État)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780814724156. - ISBN 0814724159. - ISBN 9781479874477. - ISBN 1479874477
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457048058
Notice n° :
FRBNF45704805
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : "Here will we take our stand": Weeksville's origins, from slavery to freedom, 1770-1840
; "Owned and occupied by our own people": Weeksville's growth: family, work, and
community, 1840-1860 ; "Shall we fly or shall we resist?": from emigration to the
Civil War, 1850-1865 ; "Fair schools, a fine building, finished writers, strong minded
women": politics, women's activism, and the roots of Progressive reform, 1865-1910
; "Cut through and gridironed by streets": physical changes, 1860-1880 ; "Part of
this magically growing city": Weeksville's growth and disappearance, 1880-1910 ;
"A seemingly viable neighborhood that no longer exists": Weeksville, lost and found,
1910-2010.
