Five Points Neighborhood of Denver (CO) (Images of America)

Mauck, Laura

ISBN 10: 0738518700 / ISBN 13: 9780738518701

Edité par Arcadia Publishing (SC), 2001

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Synopsis :

By the 1870s, the word was out about Colorado. East coast and Midwest prospectors, European immigrants, and African Americans newly freed from slavery, rushed to Denver to find work and their fortune in silver and gold. Captured here in almost 200 vintage images is the story of the African Americans who escaped the oppression and racism of the post Civil War South, and created a city within a city: the Five Points neighborhood of Denver. Named in 1881 for a bustling five-way intersection, the Five Points area became the commercial and social sector for African American churches, businesses, clubs, and homes, and the heart of Denver's black community. Showcased here are the photographs of once thriving Five Points businesses in the Welton Street business district, such as Otha Rice's Tap Room and Oven and the Rossonian Hotel, as well as the familiar faces of the Cosmopolitan Club, Madame CJ Walker, and Dr. Justina Ford, Denver's first African-American female doctor.

À propos de l?auteur: Using extraordinary photographs from the African American Research Library and the Western History Department of the Denver Public Library, as well as images from personal collections, historian Laura M. Mauck highlights the numerous historical triumphs of African Americans in one of Denver's most tenacious neighborhoods.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Five Points Neighborhood of Denver (CO) (...
Éditeur : Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Date d'édition : 2001
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : good