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Black Communities of Fairfax
A History
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Black Communities of Fairfax
A History
About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access Black Communities of Fairfax by Etta Willson,Rita Colbert,Linneall Naylor,Rondia Prescott,Jenee Lindner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & African American History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword, by Catherine S. Read
- Preface, by Etta Willson and Jenee Lindner
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction, by Jenee Lindner
- Part I. Jermantown Cemetery
- Part II. Segregated Communities in Fairfax, Virginia
- Part III. Making A Difference
- Part IV. George Mason University and Center for Mason Legacies: Black Lives Next Door
- Part V. The Future
- Notes
- About the Authors