African American history in Roanoke City
Subtitle: a compilation of records
By: Arleen F. Ollie, author.
Publisher: A.F. Ollie
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Roanoke, Va.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans -- Virginia -- Roanoke -- Directories.; African Americans -- Virginia -- Roanoke -- Genealogy.; African Americans -- Virginia -- Roanoke -- History -- Sources.; Registers of births, etc. -- Virginia -- Roanoke.; Roanoke (Va.) -- Genealogy.; Roanoke (Va.) -- History -- Sources.
Genres: Directories.; Genealogy.; Sources.
Notes: Cover title.
Information about African American residents, schools, churches, and businesses of Roanoke, Va.; compiled primarily from Roanoke City directories of 1888, 1890, 1895, 1904-5, and 1910.
Map on front and rear of work is copied from the 1888 Roanoke City map.
Table of contents: value: Thanks; value: Introduction; value: Schools; value: School lists; value: Cemeteries; value: First Baptist Church; value: High Street Baptist Church also known as Second Baptist Church; value: Primitive Baptist Church also known as Jefferson Street Baptist Church; value: Jerusalem Baptist Church; value: St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church; value: 9th Avenue Christian Church; value: Sweet Union Baptist Church; value: The Christian Faith Band Church, Colored; value: The African Methodist Episcopal Church; value: Third Baptist Church also known as Mt. Zion Baptist Church; value: Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church; value: Church of God Saints of Christ, Colored Tabernacle; value: Fourth Baptist Church also known as Park Street Baptist Church and Hill Street Baptist Church; value: Definitions and creative guesses; value: 1888; value: 1890; value: 1895; value: 1904-5; value: 1910; value: Did you notice?