| South of Main Contributor(s): Hill, Beatrice (Author), Lee, Brenda (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1891885456 ISBN-13: 9781891885457 Publisher: Hub City Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | African American |
| Dewey: 975.729 |
| LCCN: 2005025967 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 8.4" W x 8.3" (1.36 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Locality - Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C. - Geographic Orientation - South Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More than 1,400 neighborhoods in the United States, most of them African-American, were leveled in the name of urban renewal during the mid-twentieth century. South of Main recreates the culture and history of just one of those, the Southside of Spartanburg, South Carolina, founded in the 1860s by a group of ex-slaves who lived together at the end of a dusty road called Liberty Street. This poignant and painful history examines the experiences of the people who called the Southside home and whose lives were affected by the bulldozers of urban renewal. Between 1970 and 1978, fifty city block were razed, scattering 90 businesses and some 2,000 people. Through oral histories, photographs, and maps, their memories survive in this rich collection of stories called South of Main. |