Built by Blacks
Subtitle: African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond
By: Selden Richardson ; editor and photographer, Maurice Duke.
Contributors: Duke, Maurice.; Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods.
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781596294592
Subjects: African American architecture -- Virginia -- Richmond; African Americans -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Social conditions; Richmond (Va.) -- Buildings, structures, etc; Richmond (Va.) -- Social conditions
Notes: "The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, Richmond, Virginia."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Illustrations; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: 1. The beginning : early slavery and early buildings; title: 2. The slave markets in Shockoe Valley; title: 3. Urban plantations and the Civil War; title: 4. Black entrepreneurs, designers, craftsmen and builders; title: 5. The new architects : Jackson Ward and Church Hill; title: 6. Virginia Union University and Frederick Douglass Court; title: 7. Highways and expressways : Navy Hill; title: 8. Urban destruction as urban renewal : Fulton; title: 9. A community saved : Westwood; title: 10. The city's black churches; title: 11. Richmond's African American cemeteries; title: Notes.