America's First Black Town
America's First Black Town

Author: Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780252025372

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"Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua traces Brooklyn's transformation from a freedom village into a residential commuter satellite that supplied cheap labor to the city and the region.".

Of Cabbages and Kings County
Of Cabbages and Kings County

Author: Marc Linder

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780877457145

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In particular, they question whether sprawl was a necessary condition of American industrialization; could the agricultural base that preceded and surrounded the city have survived the onrush of residential real estate speculation with a bit of foresight and public policies that the politically outnumbered farmers could not have secured on their own?

Black Studies
Black Studies

Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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