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Book The Forging of a Black Community

Download or read book The Forging of a Black Community written by Quintard Taylor and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a full-fledged city, African Americans began to stay and build a community. By the early twentieth century, black life in Seattle coalesced in the Central District, a four-square-mile section east of downtown. Black Seattle, however, was never a monolith. Through world wars, economic booms and busts, and the civil rights movement, black residents and leaders negotiated intragroup conflicts and had varied approaches to challenging racial inequity. Despite these differences, they nurtured a distinct African American culture and black urban community ethos. With a new foreword and afterword, this second edition of The Forging of a Black Community is essential to understanding the history and present of the largest black community in the Pacific Northwest.

Book The Central District

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan George Demack
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book The Central District written by Alan George Demack and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beirut Reborn

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  • Author : Angus Gavin
  • Publisher : Academy Press
  • Release : 1996-07-14
  • ISBN : 9781854904812
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Beirut Reborn written by Angus Gavin and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 1996-07-14 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renewal of Beirut's city center is currently the world's most challenging urban regeneration project. Led by the private sector, its institutional framework is pioneering. The planning and implementation embrace many issues: infrastructure renewal, urban archeology, new development and the restoration of historic fabric, the creation of a social arena where the city can reconnect, and the relaunching of the Lebanese capital, once pre-eminent in the Middle East, into a stabilizing world of emerging opportunities.

Book Discovering Seattle Parks

Download or read book Discovering Seattle Parks written by Linnea Westerlind and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linnea Westerlind has visited each of Seattle’s 426 city parks, an effort which she documented on her blog, YearofSeattleParks.com—making her the absolutely perfect person to guide you to just the right park for your picnic, an outing with the kids, family reunion, or simply a fun new place to explore. Discovering Seattle’s Parks is based on Westerlind’s blog, but for this new guidebook she has revisited and further researched every single park she describes, and now includes even more detailed information and descriptions. Organized by neighborhood, such as Downtown, Queen Anne, or Northeast Seattle, the guide features full-color photos throughout and simple, illustrated maps for the largest parks with more complex trail systems. Each park’s listing includes: • Icons for key features—playgrounds, viewpoints, waterfront spots, hidden parks, and dog parks • Public transportation and parking directions • Details on the park’s history • Highlights such as public art, water features, cycling paths, and more • Color photographs that capture the park’s essence Discovering Seattle’s Parks will keep families, walkers, dog-lovers, and kids of all ages busy with year-round exploration and fun!

Book The Central District

    Book Details:
  • Author : F. C. Gross
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 20 pages

Download or read book The Central District written by F. C. Gross and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Policing a City s Central District

Download or read book Policing a City s Central District written by Albert J. Reiss and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Central Business District

Download or read book The Central Business District written by Raymond E. Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapidly changing structure of urban social and economic activity in recent years has given rise to a great deal of concern regarding the fate of that area of the city where economic activity is chiefly concentrated: the central business district (CBD). This book, a geographic study of the changing nature of CBDs, represents a concise, well-ordered, and readable attempt to deal with that concern. Written by a widely known authority on the subject, it provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of much of the research done on CBDs over the past two decades and establishes many striking generalizations regarding the past, present and future evolutions of CBDs, both in this country and abroad.Using maps and diagrams where helpful, Murphy, a pioneer researcher in this field from the standpoint of economic geography, provides the record of his own and others' attempts to define CBDs and to develop theories about them. He not only presents the story of the research attack on the CBDs of a number of cities, including estimates of their probable future, but also details a practicable technique for delimiting and studying CBDs.An important feature of the book is the attention Murphy devotes to the valuable work done in this field outside America, and his examples, which fully cover the American experience, are by no means confined to it, taking in important urban centres throughout the world. This book, intended for anyone interested in the urban scene, will be particularly helpful to students and teachers of urban geography and to practicing urban planners.

Book Seattle in Black and White

Download or read book Seattle in Black and White written by Joan Singler and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seattle was a very different city in 1960 than it is today. There were no black bus drivers, sales clerks, or bank tellers. Black children rarely attended the same schools as white children. And few black people lived outside of the Central District. In 1960, Seattle was effectively a segregated town. Energized by the national civil rights movement, an interracial group of Seattle residents joined together to form the Seattle chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Operational from 1961 through 1968, CORE had a brief but powerful effect on Seattle. The chapter began by challenging one of the more blatant forms of discrimination in the city, local supermarkets. Located within the black community and dependent on black customers, these supermarkets refused to hire black employees. CORE took the supermarkets to task by organizing hundreds of volunteers into shifts of continuous picketers until stores desegregated their staffs. From this initial effort CORE, in partnership with the NAACP and other groups, launched campaigns to increase employment and housing opportunities for black Seattleites, and to address racial inequalities in Seattle public schools. The members of Seattle CORE were committed to transforming Seattle into a more integrated and just society. Seattle was one of more than one hundred cities to support an active CORE chapter. Seattle in Black and White tells the local, Seattle story about this national movement. Authored by four active members of Seattle CORE, this book not only recounts the actions of Seattle CORE but, through their memories, also captures the emotion and intensity of this pivotal and highly charged time in America’s history. A V Ethel Willis White Book For more information visit: http://seattleinblackandwhite.org/

Book Hong Kong Noir

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xu Xi
  • Publisher : Akashic Books
  • Release : 2018-12-04
  • ISBN : 161775692X
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Hong Kong Noir written by Xu Xi and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Showcases the extremes of one of the world’s capitals. From ghost stories, to historical thrills, to underworld brutality . . . endlessly fascinating.”—CrimeReads Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. In Hong Kong Noir, fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair. This anthology includes brand-new stories by Jason Y. Ng, Xu Xi, Marshall Moore, Brittani Sonnenberg, Tiffany Hawk, James Tam, Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang, Christina Liang, Feng Chi-shun, Charles Philipp Martin, Shannon Young, Shen Jian, Carmen Suen, and Ysabelle Cheung. “The history of Hong Kong, once a fishing village, encompasses piracy, the opium trade, prostitution, corruption, espionage and revolutionary plots; grist for the 14 dark tales in Hong Kong Noir.”—BBC Culture “A delightfully dark collection of fiction from Hong Kong, a city where talk is cheap and cash is still king.”—Ritz-Carlton Magazine “Ng and Blumberg-Kason defy the fates by presenting a collection of 14 stores—by Chinese tradition, an ominous number—illustrating their city’s dark side . . . Readers can feel lucky to have such a collection.”—Kirkus Reviews "Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial center’s gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city’s ghosts and spirits.”—South China Morning Post

Book Planned Improvements of the Central District

Download or read book Planned Improvements of the Central District written by Denver Planning Office and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seattle s Black Victorians  1852 1901

Download or read book Seattle s Black Victorians 1852 1901 written by Esther Hall Mumford and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...looks at black life in 19th century Seattle from many angles. The combination of newspaper files, county records, and oral history gives a density to the historical picture." John Berry, Seattle Sun -- Back cover.

Book Laws   Regulations of Central District

Download or read book Laws Regulations of Central District written by California. Central District and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emerald Street

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daudi J. Abe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780295747576
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Emerald Street written by Daudi J. Abe and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first rap battles in Seattle's Central District to the Grammy stage, hip hop has shaped urban life and the music scene of the Pacific Northwest for more than four decades. In the early 1980s, Seattle's hip-hop artists developed a community-based culture of stylistic experimentation and multiethnic collaboration. Emerging at a distance from the hip-hop centers of New York City and Los Angeles, Seattle's most famous hip-hop figures, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Macklemore, found mainstream success twenty years apart by going directly against the grain of their respective eras. In addition, Seattle has produced a two-time world-champion breaking crew, globally renowned urban clothing designers, an international hip-hop magazine, and influential record producers. In Emerald Street, Daudi Abe chronicles the development of Seattle hip hop from its earliest days, drawing on interviews with artists and journalists to trace how the elements of hip hop--rapping, DJing, breaking, and graffiti--flourished in the Seattle scene. He shows how Seattle hip-hop culture goes beyond art and music, influencing politics, the relationships between communities of color and law enforcement, the changing media scene, and youth outreach and educational programs. The result is a rich narrative of a dynamic and influential force in Seattle music history and beyond. Emerald Street was made possible in part by a grant from 4Culture's Heritage Program.

Book A Summary of Bankruptcy Law

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. Jonathan Hayes
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-12-11
  • ISBN : 9781541080829
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book A Summary of Bankruptcy Law written by M. Jonathan Hayes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a short but thorough summary of consumer bankruptcy law. As said by chapter 7 Trustee Wes Avery, "Professor Hayes explains very nicely the technical and complex language of the Bankruptcy Code and Rules in plain English." The book is intended to be a practical, but sufficiently theoretical guide to the nuts and bolts of bankruptcy. It provides the basics to the lawyer or law student new to bankruptcy. The book is supported with 403 footnotes which focus largely on the 9th Circuit and California Law.

Book Central District Revitalization

Download or read book Central District Revitalization written by Michael Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book FDA Consumer

Download or read book FDA Consumer written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Reports

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Special Reports written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: