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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Black Communities of Fairfax: A History

Black Communities of Fairfax: A History

Willson, Etta
Colbert, Rita
Naylor, Linneall

Paperback

Series: American Heritage

Black American History19th Century United States HistoryRegional: South

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1467155497
ISBN13: 9781467155496
Publisher: History Pr
Published: Jan 15 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.09 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

The story of Black Fairfax has long been untold.

The free Black population of Fairfax Court House dates to at least the 1820s. After the Civil War, newly freed Black citizens expanded the hamlet of Jermantown dramatically. Additional segregated neighborhoods, including School Street, which overlapped today's George Mason University, and Ilda, off Guinea Road, grew and thrived. In the second half of the nineteenth century residents built schools, churches, and a cemetery. These families persevered under Jim Crow in the early twentieth century. After incorporation, the City of Fairfax annexed these historically Black localities, and their separate character began to disappear. This group of authors with deep roots in Fairfax tells the stories of their communities.

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