Louisville's historic Black neighborhoods / Beatrice S. Brown, PhD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Beatrice S.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville--History--Pictorial works.

African Americans.

African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville--Biography--Pictorial works.

Manners and customs.

History.

Louisville (Ky.)--History--Pictorial works.

Louisville (Ky.).

Louisville (Ky.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Louisville (Ky.)--Biography--Pictorial works.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

Kentucky--Louisville.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Biographies.

History.

Pictorial works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

127 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2012.

Summary:

After the American Civil War, many African Americans found a new life in "river Town". Louisville became a historic marker for freed men and women of color who bought acres of land or leased shotgun cottages and lots from whites to begin their new emancipated life.

Contents:

Smoketown

BlackHill-Old Louisville, Claiofrnia, Parkland

Central business district

Berry-Griffy towns, Petersburg, Newburg

South Louisville and black horsemen in the Kentucky derby

"Southeast on Third"

Russell

The Lincoln Institute.

Notes:

Cover image shows Louisville Free Public Library Western Colored Library children's room at the library at 604 South Ten Street in 1928.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

9780738591858

0738591858

OCLC:

827722270

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