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Resources
Arlington County Department of Community Planning, Housing and Development. 2016. A Guide to African American Heritage of Arlington County, VA.
Arlington Center for Local History.
––– 2017. Project DAPS: Exploring the Desegregation of Arlington Public Schools
––– 2014. Green Valley/Nauck Heritage Project
Bestebreurtje, Lindsey. 2017. “Built by the People Themselves–African American Community Development in Arlington, Virginia, from the Civil War through Civil Rights.” PhD. Dissertation, George Mason University. https://hdl.handle.net/1920/11125
Casper, Scott E. 2009. Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine. New York: Hill & Wang.
Hanna, Stephen P. 2012. “Cartographic Memories of Slavery and Freedom: Examining John Washington’s Map and Mapping of Fredericksburg, Virginia.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 47 (1): 50–63. https://doi.org/10.3138/carto.47.1.50
Moon, Krystyn. 2016. “The African American Housing Crisis in Alexandria, Virginia, 1930s-1960s.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 124 (1): 28–68.
– – -. 2014. “Finding the Fort: African American History and Memory at Fort Ward Historic Park.” Alexandria Archaeology, Office of Historic Alexandria, July 2014.
– – -. 2019. “From Arlandria to Chirilagua: The Shifting Demographics of a Northern Virginia Neighborhood.” The Metropole (Official Blog of the Urban History Association).
Moore, Jacqueline M. 1999. Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation’s Capital, 1880-1920. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia.
Perry, Nancy. 2015. “Eminent Domain Destroys a Community: Leveling East Arlington to Make Way for the Pentagon.” Urban Geography 37 (1): 141–61.
Perry, Nancy, L. Earle Reybold, and Nigel Waters. 2014. “‘Everybody Was Looking for a Good Government Job: Occupational Choice during Segregation in Arlington, Virginia.” Journal of Urban History 40 (4): 719–41.
Perry, Nancy, Spencer Crew, and Nigel M. Waters. 2013. “We Didn’t Have Any Other Place to Live: Residential Patterns in Segregated Arlington County, Virginia.” Southeastern Geographer 53 (4): 403–27.
Yellin, Eric S. 2013. Racism in the Nation’s Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson’s America. Chapel Hill: University Of North Carolina Press.
Bonastia, Christopher. 2010. Knocking on the Door the Federal Government’s Attempt to Desegregate the Suburbs . Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Brooks, Richard R. W., and Carol M. Rose. 2013. Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Delaney, David. 2010. Race, Place, and the Law, 1836-1948. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Freund, David M. P. 2007. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
Gonda, Jeffrey D. 2015. Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Gordon, Colin. 2008. Mapping Decline St. Louis and the Fate of the American City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Gordon, Colin. 2023. Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation and Urban Inequality. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Rothstein, Richard. 2017. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Santucci, Larry. 2020. “Documenting Racially Restrictive Covenants in 20th Century Philadelphia.” Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research 22 (3): 241–68.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta. 2019. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Teaford, Jon C. 1990. The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
DuBois, W. E. B. 1897. “The Strivings of the Negro People.” The Atlantic, 1897. Accessed November 13, 2022. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/strivings-of-the-negro-people/305446/
DuBois, W.E.B. (1903) 2018. The Souls of Black Folk. Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing.
Freund, David M. P. 2007. Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
Gatewood, Willard B. 1990. Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920 . Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press.
McKittrick, Katherine. 2011. “On Plantations, Prisons, and a Black Sense of Place.” Social & Cultural Geography 12 (8): 947–63.
McKittrick, Katherine, and Clyde Adrian Woods, eds. 2007. Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Toronto: Between the Lines.
Penningroth, Dylan C. 2004. The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Wiese, Andrew. 2005. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.
Ann Arbor, Michigan – Justice InDeed
https://www.justiceindeedmi.org/
Charlottesville/Albemarle County, Virginia – Mapping Albemarle–Mapping Cville
https://mappingcville.com
Chicago, Illinois – Chicago Covenants
https://www.chicagocovenants.com/
District of Columbia – Mapping Segregation in Washington, D.C.
https://mappingsegregationdc.org
Hampton Roads, Virginia – Living Together, Living Apart
https://www.livingtogetherlivingapart.com
Iowa – Mapping Segregation
https://dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/mappingsegregationia/
Minneapolis, Minnesota – Mapping Prejudice
https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu
Montgomery County, Maryland – Mapping Segregation
Richmond, Virginia – Mapping Inequality
https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/redlining/#loc=5/39.1/-94.58
Seattle, Washington – Segregated Seattle
https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/segregated.htm
St. Louis, Missouri – Dividing the City
https://dsps.lib.uiowa.edu/thedividedcity/
Tucson, Arizona – Mapping Racist Covenants
https://mappingracistcovenants.org
City of Alexandria – The Oral History Archive
Arlington Public Library – Center for Local History Oral History Transcripts
1 00 years of Black Falls Church
Northern Virginia Civil Rights Archive – Oral Histories
Fairfax County – Virginia Room – Oral Histories