Built by Blacks : African American architecture and neighborhoods in Richmond / Selden Richardson ; editor and photographer Maurice Duke, PhD.

Author/creator Richardson, Selden author.
Other author Duke, Maurice, editor, photographer.
Other author Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods.
Format Book
EditionThe History Press edition.
PublicationCharleston, SC : The History Press, 2008.
Copyright Date©2008
Description192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
African American architecture--Virginia. --Richmond.
African Americans--Virginia. --Richmond. --Social conditions.
Architecture and race--United States.
Richmond (Va.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Richmond (Va.)--Social conditions.

Contents Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The beginning : early slavery and early buildings -- 2. The slave markets in Shockoe Valley -- 3. Urban plantations and the Civil War -- 4. Black entrepreneurs, designers, craftsmen and builders -- 5. The new architects : Jackson Ward and Church Hill -- 6. Virginia Union University and Frederick Douglass Court -- 7. Highways and expressways : Navy Hill -- 8. Urban destruction as urban renewal : Fulton -- 9. A community saved : Westwood -- 10. The city's black churches -- 11. Richmond's African American cemeteries -- Notes.
General note"The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, Richmond, Virginia."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.
LCCN 2008007274
ISBN9781596294592 (paperback)
ISBN1596294590