To Place Our Deeds
Subtitle: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780520229204
Subjects: Black studies; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Social History; Urban communities; 20th century; Social Science; Sociology; California; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - State & Local - General; History / General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
First sentence: In 1940, before the tumultuous events of December 7, 1941, thrust the United States into World War II, Richmond was a sleepy coastal city of approximately twenty-four thousand lying along the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Contra Costa County.