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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Back Stories of History featuring South Community

The Back Stories of History featuring South Community

Graham, Priscilla T.

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 1953824196
ISBN13: 9781953824196
Publisher: Priscilla Graham Photography & Publishing
Published: Mar 27 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For more than a century, the South Community of Texas City existed as a ten-block world built by Black families navigating segregation, industrial labor, disaster, and exclusion with intention and care. Within its boundaries, they built homes, churches, schools, businesses, and institutions that sustained generations and shaped the moral and cultural foundation of Black life in the city. The Back Stories of History: Featuring South Community documents what existed before zoning changes, industrial expansion, and so-called green space dismantled the neighborhood's physical presence. Grounded in oral histories, church records, municipal documents, photographs, and lived memory, this book restores the South Community to the historical record with accuracy and authority. It traces the community's construction, endurance, displacement, and evolution, from the spiritual corridor of First Avenue South to Booker T. Washington School, from the Great Depression to the Texas City Disaster of 1947, and into a legacy carried far beyond its original footprint. This is not nostalgia. It is documentation. The South Community did not vanish; it transformed into lineage, memory, and responsibility. Black history is American history, and this story stands as record.

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