A Place Called Ilda (eBook)

Race and Resilience at a Northern Virginia Crossroads

Tom Shoop (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
242 Seiten
Rivanna (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5087-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The compelling history of a racially integrated, and now forgotten, community in northern Virginia Established by two Black entrepreneurs and their families, who provided the economic engine for its initial success, the village of Ilda flourished as a racially integrated community before the Jim Crow era. More than simply a history of a racially and socially pioneering community, this remarkable book tells a broader story, recounting the Black experience in Fairfax County over generations and shedding new light on the racial, economic, political, and bureaucratic factors that drove the development of Northern Virginia and the nation as a whole. Weaving together accounts of horse thievery, attempted murder, savage beatings, hate crimes, and a long-forgotten cemetery, this gripping and often moving narrative provides a rich and unusually detailed record of the rise, decline, and rediscovery of a crossroads whose secrets and mysteries depict an America that might have been, and might still be.Winner of the Nan Netherton Prize from the Fairfax County History Commission

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 9 b&w illus., 2 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: African Burial Ground • Agriculture • Alexandria • Anti-Semitism • Arlington • Brian Conley • cemeteries • Cemetery • Churches • Civil War • commercial development • Community • Confederacy • Dennis Howard • Douglas Owsley • endurance • enslaved people • Fairfax • Fairfax County • Falls Church • First Baptist Church of Merrifield • Franklin Minor • Free African Americans • Gareth Neville • Guinea Road • Guinea Road Cemetery • Hareem Badil-Abish • historical markers • Horace Gibson • howard university • Human remains • ILDA • Ilda Church • Ilda School • Jermantown Cemetery • Jim Crow • Jim Crow laws • Jim Crow segregation • Kerri Barile • Land ownership • Little River Turnpike • Louis Berger Group • Malcolm Richardson • Matilda Gibson • Merrifield • Merrifield Colored School • Methodist Episcopal Church • Moses Parker • NAACP • names of enslaved people • Oak Hill plantation • Oral tradition • Order • Perseverance • Pleasant Valley Memorial Park • Ravensworth • reconstruction • resources • Richmond • Sharon Bulova • Social • Sons and Daughters of Liberty • South • Taxes • Traffic • Virginia Department of Historic • Virginia Department of Transportation • Washington, D.C. • Woodburn Road
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5087-2 / 0813950872
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5087-7 / 9780813950877