CONTENTS

Foreword by Quin’Nita Cobbins-Modica

Foreword to the First Edition by Norman Rice

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Seattle: The Urban Frontier

Part One. African Americans in a Frontier City, 1860–1899

1.    Origins and Foundations, 1860–1899

Part Two. The Black Community Emerges, 1900–1940

2.    Employment and Economics, 1900–1940

3.    Housing, Civil Rights, and Politics, 1900–1940

4.    Blacks and Asians in a White City, 1870–1942

5.    The Forging of a Black Community Ethos, 1900–1940

Part Three. Black Seattle in the Modern Era, 1941–1970

6.    The Transformation of the Central District, 1941–1960

7.    From “Freedom Now” to “Black Power,” 1960–1970

Conclusion: Black Seattle, Past, Present, and Future

Afterword by Albert S. Broussard

Appendixes

1. Founding Members of the Seattle NAACP, October 23, 1913

2. Black Seattle: The Social Nexus

3. Growth of Seattle’s Black Population, 1860–2010

4. Seattle’s Minority Population, 1900–2010

Notes

Bibliography

Index