Renae Nadine Shackelford: 1 book
Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia
An Oral History of Vinegar Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
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...
