Black communities of Fairfax a history Etta Willson, Rita Colbert, Linneall Naylor, Rondia Prescott with Jenee Lindner

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Notes: NMAF copy 39088020613642 gift of Jenee Lindner; NMAF copy 39088020613642 has supplemental materials laid in.
Contents: Jermantown Cemetery -- Segregated communities in Fairfax, Virginia -- Making a difference -- George Mason University and Center for Mason Legacies: Black lives next door -- The future
Summary: "The story of Black Fairfax has long been untold. The free Black population of Fairfax Court House dates to at least the 1820s. After the Civil War, newly freed Black citizens expanded the hamlet of Jermantown dramatically. Additional segregated neighborhoods, including School Street, which overlapped today's George Mason University, and Ilda, off Guinea Road, grew and thrived. In the second half of the nineteenth century residents built schools, churches, and a cemetery. These families persevered under Jim Crow in the early twentieth century. After incorporation, the City of Fairfax annexed these historically Black localities, and their separate character began to disappear. This group of authors with deep roots in Fairfax tells the stories of their communities."-- Amazon.com

author: Willson, Etta 1943-; Colbert, Rita; Naylor, Linneall; Prescott, Rondia; Lindner, Jenee

Topic: African Americans--History; Segregation--History; Noirs américains--Histoire; Ségrégation--Histoire; African Americans; History