North of Main: Spartanburg's Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College - Hardcover
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North of Main: Spartanburg's Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College
New neighborhoods began emerging north of Main Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina in the 1870s as emancipated Black men and women spent their hard-won post-slavery wages to purchase lots and build homes. As the decades rolled by, they and their descendants established a string of neighborhoods encompassing hundreds of houses, stretching from modern-day Barnet Park to the edge of Spartanburg...
Dr. Jim Neighbors teaches ethnic literature written in the U.S at Wofford College and co-coordinates the African/African American Studies Program. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Brenda Lee Pryce is the co-author of South of Main (Hub City Press, 2005). She served as the first Black female state legislator in South Carolina, received an honorary...
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