Maurice Jackson — Halfway to Freedom: The History of Black Washington, DC — at Conn Ave

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For over two hundred years, the history and culture of the District of Columbia has been in great part shaped by its Black residents. Several Black men were elected to political positions citywide only a handful of years after the end of the Civil War, and while the years after Reconstruction saw the region plagued with segregation and racial violence, the capital's Black population continued to grow at all economic levels. Washington became the first major US city with a majority Black population in 1957, a status it held for almost 70 years as gentrification has led to the decline of Black political and economic power in DC in the twenty first century. Halfway to Freedom https://politics prose.com/book/9781478034421 is a social, political, intellectual, and cultural…

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