Barry Farm-Hillsdale in Anacostia

A Historic African American Community

Barry Farm-Hillsdale in Anacostia
Alcione M Amos
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Paperback
h229 x 152mm - 176pg
4 Jan 2021 US
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9781467147699
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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.
Alcione M. Amos, currently a museum curator at the Smithsonian Institution Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D. C. , is originally from Brazil and has lived and worked in the United States for almost five decades. She received an MSLS from Catholic University in Washington, D. C. Among other works, she has published two books: The Black Seminoles: History of a Freedom Seeking People and Os Que Voltaram: A Historia dos Retornados Afro-Brasileiros na Africa Ocidental no Seculo XIX (Those Who Returned: The History of the Afro-Brazilian Returnees in West Africa in the 19th Century).
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781467147699
Published: 4 Jan 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: History Press
Publisher: History Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 8mm
Weight: 18g
Pages: 176

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