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Paperback Sense of Place: Birminghams Black Middle-Class Community, 1890-1930 Book

ISBN: 0817309691

ISBN13: 9780817309695

Sense of Place: Birminghams Black Middle-Class Community, 1890-1930

This portrait of a thriving middle-class African American community showcases the way its citizens overcame racial hostility and developed a sense of place and collective identity

In the early 20th century, city boosters in Birmingham, Alabama, annexed the town of Smithfield as part of a larger effort to enlarge the city and broaden its tax base. While the area attracted both whites and blacks seeking to escape the city's cramped...

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