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"A significant contribution to the literature of black urban history." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
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This review is from: Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970 (Blacks in the New World) (Paperback)
This book details a fascinating and lost aspect of Washington DC life, the many thousands who once lived in the alley houses. The grew up in these allies a close knit though often troubled and impoverished community of mostly African Americans. Despite their poverty they were not isolated as so many poor are today. They lived just behind some very wealthy homeowners and had access to the wider parts of the city than today when the poor are largely segregated east of the river. Sadly the Government condemned these houses in the 1950s and ordered all the allies closed. The poor were huddled into "garden" apartments and other arrangements such as the Ellen Wilson Dwellings, and the Arthur Caper developments. This book details well the live they lived, the struggles they faced and how the end came to this facet of DC life. The book is filled with drawings and charts, as well as pictures.
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In 1909 Charles Weller, executive officer (1901-8) of the Associated Charities of Washington, D.C., exposed the evils and dangers that existed in the "hidden" alley communities of the nation's capital. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
massive ghettoes, alley residents, black alley dwellers, alley population, folk migrants, inhabited alleys, alley property, alley life, alley community, alley families, alley dwellings, alley housing, alley culture, behavioral landscape, selected alleys, alley inhabitants, alley children, larger alleys, alley experience, alley size, alley communities, given alley, alley family, alley land, residential persistence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
District of Columbia, Snow's Court, Fenton Place, Temperance Court, Sociological Survey of Disease, Deviant Social Situation, Neglected Neighbors, New York, Center Court, Washington Star, Group of Negro Children, Board of Children's Guardians, Housing of Negroes, Ambitions of Youth, Blagden Alley, Aunt Jane, Civil War, Library of Congress, Willow Tree Alley, Children's History, Ethel Waters, Farm Security Administration Collection, Washington Post, Auntie Jane, National Capital Housing Authority Collection New!
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In 1909 Charles Weller, executive officer (1901-8) of the Associated Charities of Washington, D.C., exposed the evils and dangers that existed in the "hidden" alley communities of the nation's capital. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
massive ghettoes, alley residents, black alley dwellers, alley population, folk migrants, inhabited alleys, alley property, alley life, alley community, alley families, alley dwellings, alley housing, alley culture, behavioral landscape, selected alleys, alley inhabitants, alley children, larger alleys, alley experience, alley size, alley communities, given alley, alley family, alley land, residential persistence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
District of Columbia, Snow's Court, Fenton Place, Temperance Court, Sociological Survey of Disease, Deviant Social Situation, Neglected Neighbors, New York, Center Court, Washington Star, Group of Negro Children, Board of Children's Guardians, Housing of Negroes, Ambitions of Youth, Blagden Alley, Aunt Jane, Civil War, Library of Congress, Willow Tree Alley, Children's History, Ethel Waters, Farm Security Administration Collection, Washington Post, Auntie Jane, National Capital Housing Authority Collection New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- His Eye Is On The Sparrow: An Autobiography (Quality Paperbacks Series) by Ethel Waters on 11 pages
- Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890 by Howard N. Rabinowitz on 7 pages
- Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century by David M. Katzman on 5 pages
- Negro in the District of Columbia (The Black Heritage Library Collection) by Edward Ingle on page 9, page 132, and page 191
- Social Problems (10th Edition) (MySocKit Series) by D. Stanley Eitzen on page 71, page 83, and page 84
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