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Orlando, Florida (Black America) - Softcover

Thompson, Geraldine Fortenberry

 
9780738515366: Orlando, Florida (Black America)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0738515361 ISBN 13: 9780738515366
Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Black America: Orlando illuminates the lives and accomplishments of African Americans in one of Central Florida's largest cities. Images from the late 1800s to the mid-1980s depict schools, churches, businesses, housing developments, prominent homes, celebrations, and significant personalities in Orlando's black community. This volume guides readers through more than 150 years of remarkable history.

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Author Geraldine Fortenberry Thompson has compiled a visual retrospective that takes readers on a journey from a rural, agricultural community where racial segregation was strictly observed to a point where African Americans broke barriers and began to actively participate in civic affairs in Central Florida. Thompson is the Founding President of the Association to Preserve African American Society, History and Tradition, Inc. (PAST), which operates the Wells' Built Museum of African American History and Culture located in the former historic Wells' Built Hotel.

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Verlag
ARCADIA PUB (SC)
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0738515361
ISBN 13 
9780738515366
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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