Built by the People Themselves
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Built by the People Themselves

African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Built by the People Themselves

African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights

About this book

The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington

In Built by the People Themselves, Lindsey Bestebreurtje traces the history of the Black community in Arlington, Virginia, from the first days of emancipation through the civil rights era in the twentieth century. A core insight of her account is how common people developed strategies to survive and thrive despite systems of oppression in the Jim Crow South. Moving beyond the standard story of suburbanization that focuses on elite white community developers, Bestebreurtje analyzes African American–led community development and its effects on Arlington County.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Built by the People Themselves
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: Arlington’s People and Communities
  11. CHAPTER 1 “Where They Had Lived Undisturbed for Nearly a Quarter of a Century”: Freedman’s Village and the Expansion of Black Arlington
  12. CHAPTER 2 “Gone Out to Do for Themselves”: The Freedman’s Village Diaspora and Arlington’s Suburban Villages
  13. CHAPTER 3 “Suburban Homes . . . in Sight of the Monument”: Streetcar Suburbs and White Arlington’s Expanding Control
  14. CHAPTER 4 “So That We May Occupy Our Rightful Place”: Population Boom and Changing Realities for Black Arlingtonians
  15. CHAPTER 5 “Everybody Was Coming to Washington in Those Days”: The Arrival of War Workers and Arlington’s Suburban Explosion
  16. CHAPTER 6 “We Cannot Lose This Fight as We Lost Our Freedoms during Reconstruction Days”: Politics, School Integration, and Neighborhood Preservation
  17. Conclusion: An End to Residential Segregation
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index