Black Georgetown Remembered 30/e

Introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition Kathleen Menzie Lesko Foreword to the 25th Anniversary Edition Maurice Jackson Introduction to the 25th Anniversary Edition Kathleen Menzie Lesko Foreword Introduction The Early Years: 1740-1900 A Washington Community: 1900-1950 The Historic District: 1950-1991 Creating and Preserving Legacy: A Conversation with Black Georgetowners, 2021 Appendixes Map of Georgetown's Black History Landmarks Black Churches in Georgetown Mt. Zion Cemetery The Community House Family Histories of Current Georgetown Residents A Century of Teachers from Black Georgetown A Listing of the Black Georgetown Archive in Georgetown University Bibliography Index

Black Georgetown Remembered reaches back into the memory of loved ones while drawing parallels to the successes and challenges of urban living. The preservation effort-such as this book-will bear witness to future generations that Blacks fully lived in Georgetown. * Journal of African American History *

Georgetown's little-known Black heritage shaped a Washington, DC, community long associated with white power and privilege. Black Georgetown Remembered reveals a rich but little-known history of the Georgetown Black community from the colonial period to the present. Drawing on primary sources, including oral interviews with past and current residents and extensive research in church and historical society archives, the authors record the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and successes of a vibrant neighborhood as it persevered through slavery and segregation, war and peace, prosperity and depression. This thirtieth anniversary edition of Black Georgetown Remembered, first published in 1991, features more than two hundred illustrations, including portraits of prominent community leaders, sketches, maps, and nineteenth-century and contemporary photographs. A new chapter includes a conversation with former and current Georgetown residents reflecting on the community, past and present. Black Georgetown Remembered is a compelling and inspiring journey through more than two hundred years of history. A one-of-a-kind book, it invites readers to share in the lives, dreams, aspirations, struggles, and triumphs of real people, to join them in their churches, at home, and on the street, and to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.