Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C. : An Oral History / Shilpi Malinowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malinowski, Shilpi, author.

Series:

American heritage (Charleston, S.C.)

American Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American neighborhoods--Washington (D.C.)--History.

African American neighborhoods.

Gentrification--Washington (D.C.).

Gentrification.

Washington (D.C.)--History--20th century.

Washington (D.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC. : The History Press, 2021.

Summary:

Let residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses were full of families that looked like hers: lower-income, African American, two parents with kids. The sidewalks were full of children playing. When Leroy Thorpe moved in in the 1980s, the same streets were dense with drug markets. When John Lucier found a deal on a house in Shaw in 2002, he found himself moving into one of four occupied homes on his block. Every morning, he waited by himself on the empty platform of the newly opened metro station. When Preetha Iyengar became pregnant with her first child in 2016, she jumped into a seller's market to buy a rowhouse in the area. Journalist and Shaw resident Shilpi Malinowski explores the complexities of the many stories of belonging in the District's most dynamic neighborhood.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Timeline of Voices

Introduction

Part I. Seventy Years in Shaw, LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale

1. 1950s and 1960s: Busy Sidewalks and Black Families

2. 1970s and 1980s: The Postriot Era

3. 1990s: A Crack Epidemic Blankets the Neighborhood

4. 2000s: Houses Are Flipped, Trees Are Planted and the First Café Opens

5. 2010s: Housing Prices Triple and Developers Break Ground

6. 2020: Porsches, Millionaires and Black Lives Matter

Part II. Life in an Integrated Neighborhood Today

7. Present Day: Families, Playgrounds and Schools

8. Crime, Homelessness and Community

9. Integration: How Stable Is It? Who Benefits? Who Is Hurt?

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-4396-7390-X

OCLC:

1281971272