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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia: An Oral History of Vinegar Hill

Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia: An Oral History of Vinegar Hill

Saunders, James Robert
Shackelford, Renae Nadine

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Asian American StudiesBlack American StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0786425563
ISBN13: 9780786425563
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Oct 1 2005
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and substandard conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's displaced residents discuss the loss of homes and businesses and the impact of the project on black life in Charlottesville. The interviews raise questions about motivations behind urban renewal.

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