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Black Communities of Fairfax: A History

Black Communities of Fairfax: A History - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Etta Willson, Rita Colbert, Linneall NaylorSeries:American HeritagePublish date:2024-01-15Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781467155496ISBN-10:1467155497UPC:9781467155496Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, African American & BlackBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.99 x 6.09 x 0.34 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCX5KM2F8V
The story of Black Fairfax has long been untold. The free Black population of Fairfax Court House dates to at least the 1820s. After the Civil War, newly freed Black citizens expanded the hamlet of Jermantown dramatically. Additional segregated neighborhoods, including School Street, which overlapped today's George Mason University, and Ilda, off Guinea Road, grew and thrived. In the second half of the nineteenth century residents built schools, churches, and a cemetery. These families persevered under Jim Crow in the early twentieth century. After incorporation, the City of Fairfax annexed these historically Black localities, and their separate character began to disappear. This group of authors with deep roots in Fairfax tells the stories of their communities.
Language:EnglishPublisher:History PressISBN-13:9781467155496ISBN-10:1467155497UPC:9781467155496Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, African American & BlackBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.99 x 6.09 x 0.34 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCX5KM2F8V
Publisher: History Press

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