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Seattle's first black resident was a sailor named Manuel Lopes who arrived in 1858 and became the small community's first barber. He left in the early 1870s to seek economic prosperity elsewhere, but as Seattle transformed from a stopover town to a full-fledged city, African Americans began to stay and build a community. By the early twentieth century, black life in Seattle coalesced in the Central District, a four-square-mile section east of downtown. Black Seattle, however, was never a monolith. Through world wars, economic booms and busts, and the civil rights movement, black residents and leaders negotiated intragroup conflicts and had varied approaches to challenging racial inequity. Despite these differences, they nurtured a distinct African American culture and black urban community ethos. With a new foreword and afterword, this second edition of The Forging of a Black Community is essential to understanding the history and present of the largest black community in the Pacific Northwest.

ISBN-13: 9780295750415

Media Type: Paperback(second edition)

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Publication Date: 06-07-2022

Pages: 426

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Age Range: 18 Years

Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography

Quintard Taylor is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History and professor emeritus at the University of Washington. Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica is assistant professor of history at Seattle Pacific University. Albert S. Broussard is Cornerstone Faculty Fellow and professor of history at Texas A&M University. Norm Rice was Seattle's mayor from 1990 to 1997.

What People are Saying About This

from the foreword by Norm Rice

A powerful chronicle of the African American presence in Seattle over the last century.

from the foreword by Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica

In this masterful and meticulously researched account spanning a century, Taylor weaves together a rich cultural legacy of a people, separated from the most populous black sections of the nation, who fashioned a vibrant community with very little resources.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments

Introduction | Seattle: The Urban Frontier

Part 1 | African Americans in a Frontier City, 1860-1899
1. Origins and Foundations, 1860-1899

Part 2 | The Black Community Emerges, 1900-1940
2. Employment and Economics, 1900-1940
3. Housing, Civil Rights, and Politics, 1900-1940
4. Blacks and Asians in a White City, 1870-1942
5. The Forging of a Black Community Ethos, 1900-1940

Part 3 | Black Seattle in the Modern Era, 1941-1970
6. The Transformation of the Central District, 1941-1960
7. From "Freedom Now" to "Black Power," 1961-1970

Conclusion | Black Seattle, Past, Present, and Future

Appendix 1. Founding Members of the Seattle NAACP
Appendix 2. Black Seattle: The Social Nexus
Appendix 3. Growth of Seattle's Black Population, 1860-1990
Appendix 4. Seattle's Minority Population, 1900-1990

Notes
Bibliography
Index