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Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia: An Oral History of Vinegar Hill
Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville Virginia An Oral History of Vinegar Hill
Author: James Robert Saunders, Renae Nadine Shackelford
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 lo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786405275
ISBN-10: 0786405279
Publication Date: 10/1998
Pages: 132
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Publisher: McFarland Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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