Belmont: The Lost Plan for a Black Chevy Chase
Channel: The Birth of a Capital
Date: 2021-02-24

In 1906, when streetcar suburbs were a novel luxury and the ambition of Reconstruction had not completely been put down, four businessmen secretly acquired land in DC's most desirable suburbs. They had plans to create an elite suburb as well – only unlike all the rest, it would be open to African Americans. What followed was one of the most astonishing untold stories in the history of American cities. 

00:00 Mr. Satterwhite on Trial
02:18 The Belmont Syndicate's Plan
10:40 A Constellation of Exclusion
22:38 Black Suburbanization in MD and VA
27:16 What Belmont Means in American History

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Clagett, Margaret C.
Cooper, A.H. 
Foley, Lucius A.
Fry, Charles (Clifford) C. 
Hall, Sarah 
Haney, Elizabeth D. 
Johnson, Thomas A.
Barnett, Charles 
Beckett, Lemuel M. 
Booker, B.
[Buehler], P.W.
Butler, Phillip H. 
Campbell, Lucy F.
Lee, Martha 
Mickens, Andrew E. 
Neill, Lewis H.
Oglesby, A.
Overton, Wiley
Payne, William H.
Shepherd, David
Taylor, John L.
Thomas, Henry L. 
Thomas, Z. T.
Walton, George LaFayette 
Willson, Joseph D. 
Wilson, Ora L.
Wright, Charles H. 
Young, J.M.H.