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Excerpt from History of Old Germantown: With a Description of Its Settlement and Some Account of Its Important Persons, Buildings and Places Connected With Its Development For the loan of photographs - Francis D. P. Brunner, Jane R. Haines, Hannah Ann Zell, Samuel Castner, Chas. F. Jenkins. For sketches, and most valuable aid in looking up briefs of title, acknowledgment is especially due to B. Frank Harper, Esq. For the loan of valuable cuts we are indebted to Governor Edwin S. Stuart, John W. Jordan and the American Book Co. 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.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable s...