The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era

by Quintard Taylor, Norm Rice (Foreword by)

Overview

Through much of the twentieth century, black Seattle was synonymous with the Central District--a four-square-mile section near the geographic center of the city. Quintard Taylor explores the evolution of this community from its first few residents in the 1870s to a population of nearly forty thousand in 1970. With events such as the massive influx of rural African Americans beginning with World War II and the transformation of African American community leadership in the 1960s from an integrationist to a black power stance, Seattle both anticipates and mirrors national trends. Thus, the book addresses not only a particular city in the Pacific Northwest but also the process of political change in black America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295802237
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	07/01/2011
Series:	Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	376
Lexile:	1620L (what's this?)
File size:	35 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Quintard Taylor is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History and professor emeritus at the University of Washington. Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica is assistant professor of history at Seattle Pacific University. Albert S. Broussard is Cornerstone Faculty Fellow and professor of history at Texas A&M University. Norm Rice was Seattle's mayor from 1990 to 1997.

Table of Contents

ForewordAcknowledgments

Introduction | Seattle: The Urban Frontier

Part 1 | African Americans in a Frontier City, 1860-18991. Origins and Foundations, 1860-1899

Part 2 | The Black Community Emerges, 1900-19402. Employment and Economics, 1900-19403. Housing, Civil Rights, and Politics, 1900-19404. Blacks and Asians in a White City, 1870-19425. The Forging of a Black Community Ethos, 1900-1940

Part 3 | Black Seattle in the Modern Era, 1941-19706. The Transformation of the Central District, 1941-19607. From "Freedom Now" to "Black Power," 1961-1970

Conclusion | Black Seattle, Past, Present, and Future

Appendix 1. Founding Members of the Seattle NAACPAppendix 2. Black Seattle: The Social NexusAppendix 3. Growth of Seattle's Black Population, 1860-1990Appendix 4. Seattle's Minority Population, 1900-1990

NotesBibliographyIndex

What People are Saying About This

from the foreword by Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica

"In this masterful and meticulously researched account spanning a century, Taylor weaves together a rich cultural legacy of a people, separated from the most populous black sections of the nation, who fashioned a vibrant community with very little resources."