A Directory for the City of Buffalo
Author | : Buffalo Buffalo |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780265418956 |
Excerpt from A Directory for the City of Buffalo: Containing the Names and Residence of the Heads of Families and Householders, in Said City, on the First of July 1832; To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of the Village From 1801 to 1832 Officers. Ebenezer Johnson, President. D. Tillinghast, Secretary. J. W. Clark, Treasurer. Trustees - Ebenezer Johnson, Charles Townsend, Henry White, S. Wilkeson, David Burt, Sheldon Thompson, Lewis P. Allen, Bela D. Coe, Hiram Pratt, Thomas C. Love, Heman B. Potter, R. W. Haskins, David M. Day, William Ketchum, John W. Clark, Dyre Tillinghast. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Blockbusting in Baltimore
Author | : W. Edward Orser |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813148316 |
This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting"—a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.