Description: Barry Farm-Hillsdale was created under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1867 in what was then the outskirts of the nation's capital. Residents built churches and schools, and the community became successful. In the 1940s, youth from the community courageously desegregated the Anacostia Pool, and Barry Farm Dwellings was built to house war workers. In the 1950s, community parents joined the fight to desegregate schools in Washington, D.C., as local leaders fought off plans to redevelop the area. Both the women and the youth of Barry Farm Dwellings, then public housing, were at the forefront of the fight to improve their lives and those of their neighbors in the 1960s, but community identity was being subsumed into the larger Anacostia neighborhood. Curator and historian Alcione M. Amos tells these little-remembered stories.
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EAN: 9781540245687
UPC: 9781540245687
ISBN: 9781540245687
MPN: N/A
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Book Title: Barry Farm-Hillsdale in Anacostia: a Historic African American Community
Item Height: 229mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: Alcione M Amos
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Local History, Social Sciences, History
Publisher: History PR
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 472g
Number of Pages: 226 Pages
