Built by Blacks : African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond / Selden Richardson ; editor and photographer Maurice Duke, PhD.
| Author/creator |
Richardson, Selden author. |
| Other author/creator | Duke, Maurice, editor, photographer. |
| Other author/creator | Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | The History Press edition. |
| Publication Info | Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2008. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2008 |
| Description | 192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The beginning : early slavery and early buildings -- 2. The slave markets in Shockoe Valley -- 3. Urban plantations and the Civil War -- 4. Black entrepreneurs, designers, craftsmen and builders -- 5. The new architects : Jackson Ward and Church Hill -- 6. Virginia Union University and Frederick Douglass Court -- 7. Highways and expressways : Navy Hill -- 8. Urban destruction as urban renewal : Fulton -- 9. A community saved : Westwood -- 10. The city's black churches -- 11. Richmond's African American cemeteries -- Notes. |
| General note | "The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, Richmond, Virginia." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008007274 |
| ISBN | 9781596294592 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1596294590 |
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