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Loudoun County African-American Historic Architectural Resources Survey
History Matters surveyed 210 properties that relate to the history of African Americans in Loudoun County, Virginia. Of the surveyed properties, 200 were surveyed at the reconnaissance level (exterior documentation) and then were intensively documented (exterior and interior). The documented resources date from the late 18th through the mid-20th centuries. Approximately 90 percent of the surveyed properties are located within the 30 historically African- American towns, villages, hamlets or neighborhoods that the project's cosponsor, the Black History Committee of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library, identified during their African American Community mapping project in 2001. Initial rese...
Freedom by Any Means
Following up Betty DeRamus’s Essence bestselling Forbidden Fruit, Freedom by Any Means follows the story of extraordinary acts of courage and love by Blacks in the American slave era with beautifully written and inspiring stories of how slaves used the law—against all odds—to gain freedom for themselves and loved ones. In Freedom by Any Means, Betty DeRamus explains that “Much of what we think we know about African American history isn't completely true.” Slave freedom isn’t limited to the usual story—slaves gained their freedom by running away, being freed by their owners, buying their way out of bondage, or having someone else buy them. But history doesn’t account for the s...
Dirt Don't Burn
This inspiring, true story of a Black community sheds new light on the history of segregation and inequity in American education The system of educational apartheid that existed in the United States until the Brown v. Board of Education decision and its aftermath has affected every aspect of life for Black Americans. Dirt Don't Burn is the riveting narrative of an extraordinary community that overcame the cultural and legal hurdles of systematic racism. Dirt Don’t Burn describes how Loudoun County, Virginia, which once denied educational opportunity to Black Americans, gradually increased the equality of education for all children in the area. The book includes powerful stories of the larg...
In the Watchfires
Emancipation Day celebrations come to life in the pages of this book and illuminate the community that created them. Part memoir and part history, it demonstrates how rural African Americans cultivated racial pride and civic activism that laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement. The celebrations chapter and the epilogue are written in the first person and are rich and evocative. The author presents a well-documented history and informed interpretation of the Loudoun County Emancipation Association and its role in the community. The biographical directory highlights numerous men and women whose civic contributions might otherwise go unrecognized. The book includes many maps, photographs and drawings. -- From text on p. [4] of cover.
