Chocolate City
Subtitle: a history of race and democracy in the nation's capital
By: Chris Myers Asch & George Derek Musgrove
Contributors: Musgrove, George Derek, 1975- author
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9781469635866
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Race relations; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Always a Chocolate City; title: Your coming is not for trade, but to invade my people and possess my country: a native American world under siege, 1608-1790; title: Of slaving blacks and democratic whites: building a capital of slavery and freedom, 1790-1815; title: Our boastings of liberty and equality are mere mockeries: confronting contradictions in the nation's capital, 1815-1836; title: Slavery must die: the turbulent end to human bondage in Washington, 1836-1862; title: Emancipate, enfranchise, educate: freedom and the hope of interracial democracy, 1862-1869; title: Incapable of self-government: the retreat from democracy, 1869-1890; title: National show town: building a modern, prosperous, and segregated capital, 1890-1912; title: There is a new Negro to be reckoned with: segregation, war, and a new spirit of black militancy, 1912-1932; title: Washington is a giant awakened: community organizing in a booming city, 1932-1945; title: Segregation does not die gradually of itself: Jim Crow's collapse, 1945-1956; title: How long? How long?: mounting frustration within the black majority, 1956-1968; title: There's gonna be flames, there's gonna be fighting, there's gonna be rebellion!: the tumult and promise of Chocolate City, 1968-1978; title: Perfect for Washington: Marion Barry and the rise and fall of Chocolate City, 1979-1994; title: Go home rich white people: Washington becomes wealthier and whiter, 1995-2010; title: That must not be true of tomorrow: history, race, and democracy in a new moment of racial flux.