Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia An Oral History of Vinegar Hill

Name: Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia An Oral History of Vinegar Hill
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ISBN: 9780786425563

ISBN-10: 0786425563

ISBN-13: 9780786425563

Edition: 2005 (Alternate)

Authors: James Robert Saunders, Renae Nadine Shackelford

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From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and ?substandard? conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's displaced residents discuss the loss of homes and businesses and the impact of the project on black life in Charlottesville. The interviews raise questions about motivations behind urban renewal.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 10/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

James Robert Saunders is a professor of English at Purdue University. He is also the author of Black Winning Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby (2003) and coeditor of The Dorothy West Marthas Vineyard (2001).