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Names: Taylor, Quintard, author. | Cobbins-Modica, Quin’Nita, writer of foreword. | Rice, Norman B., writer of foreword.

Title: The forging of a black community : Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era / Quintard Taylor ; forewords by Quin’Nita Cobbins-Modica and Norman Rice ; afterword by Albert S. Broussard.

Description: Second edition. | Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022] | Series: Emil and Kathleen Sick book series in Western history and biography | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021055881 (print) | LCCN 2021055882 (ebook) | ISBN 9780295750644 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780295750415 (paperback) | ISBN 9780295750651 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Central District (Seattle, Wash.)—Race relations. | African Americans—Washington (State)—Seattle—History. | Seattle (Wash.)— Race relations.

Classification: LCC F899.S49 N475 2022 (print) | LCC F899.S49 (ebook) | DDC 305.8009797/772—dc23/eng/20211122

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