The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era by Quintard Taylor

The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 Through the Civil Rights Era

Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography

Quintard Taylor with Norm Rice (Contributor), Albert S. Broussard (Contributor), Quin'nita Cobbins-Modica (Contributor)

426 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to ...

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