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Black Georgetown Remembered Kathleen Menzie Lesko

Black Georgetown Remembered By Kathleen Menzie Lesko

Black Georgetown Remembered by Kathleen Menzie Lesko


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Black Georgetown Remembered is a journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.

Black Georgetown Remembered Summary

Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of The Town of George in 1751 to the Present Day, 30th Anniversary Edition by Kathleen Menzie Lesko

Georgetown's little-known Black heritage shaped a Washington, DC, community long associated with white power and privilege. Black Georgetown Remembered reveals a rich but little-known history of the Georgetown Black community from the colonial period to the present. Drawing on primary sources, including oral interviews with past and current residents and extensive research in church and historical society archives, the authors record the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and successes of a vibrant neighborhood as it persevered through slavery and segregation, war and peace, prosperity and depression. This thirtieth anniversary edition of Black Georgetown Remembered, first published in 1991, features more than two hundred illustrations, including portraits of prominent community leaders, sketches, maps, and nineteenth-century and contemporary photographs. A new chapter includes a conversation with former and current Georgetown residents reflecting on the community, past and present. Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling and inspiring journey through more than two hundred years of history. A one-of-a-kind book, it invites readers to share in the lives, dreams, aspirations, struggles, and triumphs of real people, to join them in their churches, at home, and on the street, and to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.

About Kathleen Menzie Lesko

Kathleen Menzie Lesko is a former scholar-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library and current research scholar at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. She is also a former faculty member and administrator at Georgetown University. Valerie M. Babb is the Andrew Mellon Professor of Humanities at Emory University and holds a joint appointment in the departments of African American Studies and English. She is a former faculty member at Georgetown University. Carroll R. Gibbs is a professional historian, a lecturer, and author of numerous works on African American history. He is founder of the African History and Culture Lecture Series and wrote, researched, and narrated Sketches in Color, a companion to the acclaimed PBS series The Civil War, for WHUT-TV.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the 30th Anniversary EditionKathleen Menzie Lesko Foreword to the 25th Anniversary EditionMaurice Jackson Introduction to the 25th Anniversary EditionKathleen Menzie Lesko Foreword Introduction The Early Years: 1740-1900 A Washington Community: 1900-1950 The Historic District: 1950-1991 Creating and Preserving Legacy: A Conversation with Black Georgetowners, 2021 Appendixes Map of Georgetown's Black History Landmarks Black Churches in Georgetown Mt. Zion Cemetery The Community House Family Histories of Current Georgetown Residents A Century of Teachers from Black Georgetown A Listing of the Black Georgetown Archive in Georgetown University Bibliography Index

Additional information

NGR9781647121655
9781647121655
1647121655
Black Georgetown Remembered: A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of The Town of George in 1751 to the Present Day, 30th Anniversary Edition by Kathleen Menzie Lesko
New
Hardback
Georgetown University Press
2022-01-17
290
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