Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia: An Oral History of Vinegar Hill

by Renae Nadine Shackelford and James Robert Saunders

Book Overview

From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely because they were deprived of a voice in government. Vinegar Hill's displaced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786425563
• ISBN13: 9780786425563
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher