The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central Distr...
Taylor, Quintard / Rice, Norman![The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/913/9130891/CHSBZCOP039130891.jpg)
Through much of the twentieth century, black Seattle was synonymous with the Central District - a four-square-mile section near the geographic center of the city. Quintard Taylor explores the evolution of this community from its first few residents in the 1870s to a population of nearly forty thousand in 1970. With events such as the massive influx of rural African Americans beginning with World War II and the transformation of African America...