Comments on: Almost 20 great books about Richmond or specific parts thereof

By: Jean

Jean — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:11:25 +0000

Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890, by Peter Rachleff

By: john_m

john_m — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:58:32 +0000

Adding these to the list: Nonesuch Place: A History of the Richmond Landscape by T.Tyler Potterfield The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community by Scott C. Davis

By: audi

audi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:28:30 +0000

Looking for photo/info of old book bindery that was in Richmond, VA 1890 – early 1900s?
My grandmother worked in the book bindery. She was born in 1890 and worked in the factory putting binders on books when she was a young girl.
She probably worked there around 1910-1920s????
Thanks for any help.
audi

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:45:49 +0000

I think the subject is one that deserves a better treatment than it was given in “Lesbian and Gay Richmond,” cited above by Anne. In places that is some really thin history and smacks of being cobbled together. Hardly a solid book, and some of the stories are little more than hearsay.

Maybe I have a higher standard of what history should be like than the two authors of this sad little book.

By: b_mere

b_mere — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:43:49 +0000

Another new book just came out called Facts and Legends of the Hills of Richmond. It is a whimsical, irregular, prose-like collection of public radio essays and vintage photographs. It even includes an adventure map for those daring enough to haunt the nearly forgotten storylines of our city.

By: john_m

john_m — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:49:55 +0000

R. David Ross, Harry Kollatz, Wayne Dementi & Brooks Smith will be at Fountain Bookstore this Friday signing books. [via]

By: Cadeho

Cadeho — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:50:19 +0000

Well… of the above in the first post,
numbers 1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, and 13′s Church Hill and Fan District books.

At the Falls by Marie Tyler-McGraw (90s)

Old Richmond Today … well in the 80s

Celebrate Richmond by Elisabeth and Wayne Dementi

Historic Photos of Richmond Turner Publishing

Old Richmond Neighborhoods as mentioned above

General Lee’s City by Richard M. Lee

Henrico County by Dr. Louis H. Manarin

Richmond on the James by Louis H. Manarin

Then & Now Richmond by Keisha A. Case

Maritime Richmond by Dale Totty

Richmond Virginia (Black America Series) by Elvatrice Parker Belsches

Foster’s Richmond by Sara B. Bearss and Patricia D. Thompson

The Ghosts of Richmond …and Nearby Environs by L.B. Taylor, Jr.

You mentioned my classmate’s book above, Facts and Legends of Richmond Area Streets

Not really mine but I have access to:

The Politics of Annexation by John V. Moeser and Rutledge M. Dennis

Richmond: An Illustrated History By Harry M. Ward (80s)

A Richmond Reader by Maurice Duke

Richmond’s Story by Julia Cuthbert Pollard

By: john_m

john_m — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:26:52 +0000

Should I list what I have? Iâ€™m not sure if some are even in print anymore.

whatcha got?

By: Cadeho

Cadeho — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:20:37 +0000

Should I list what I have? I’m not sure if some are even in print anymore.

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Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:35:17 +0000

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By: Eric S. Huffstutler

Eric S. Huffstutler — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:54:18 +0000

Since I have done a history on our house and the 400 block of N 27th in general… I ran across various people and comments stating there is or was little to no research ever done on the North side of Broad. Sounds like a perfect opportunity for someone to write one now since most of the houses on the south side are newer than some on the north side which has been neglected most likely due to an old mentality about demographics even early on?

Eric

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:45:48 +0000

Winston… I have both but each is mainly a small assessment of a few houses or houses long gone and the Scott book is almost 60 years old and the Dulaney book is over 40 years old. An area definitely needing updated!

By: Winston

Winston — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:49:57 +0000

The neighborhood is covered in some detail in Mary Wingfield Scott’s book Old Richmond Neighborhoods, and to a lessor degree in Paul Dulaney’s The Architecture of Historic Richmond.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:26:51 +0000

Great book titles… so much to choose from.

Unfortunately when you see a book that has “Church Hill” in its title, they only cover the old “St John’s District” south of Broad and not the currently older existing area North of Broad. When will someone address our area on the Nortn side of the street (including old Shedtown)?

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By: Liberty

Liberty — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:38:14 +0000

@ Jason G.- Since you mentioned “Ploughshares Into Swords” On wed. nov. 26 there is a FREE lecture on Gabriel’s rebellion at 7pm at FRC in Church Hill, in case you didnt know.

By: john_m

john_m — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:25:25 +0000

@ Anne, Carol, Jason — Thanks, I hadn’t seen those before.

By: Carol A.O. Wolf

Carol A.O. Wolf — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:16:32 +0000

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780813913728

The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies)

by Robert A. Pratt

ISBN13: 9780813913728
ISBN10: 0813913721

Publisher Comments:

The first major study of school desegregation in a Virginia locality to appear in over twenty-five years, The Color of Their Skin traces the evolution of the Richmond public schools from segregation to desegregation to resegregation over the decades following the Brown decision.

Robert A. Pratt explores the undercurrents of white opposition to the dismantling of the “separate but equal” system and analyzes the overall impact of the process on the life of the city.

In doing so he has given us a portrait of a society moving, in some ways, backward in time. Although Richmond’s “passive resistance” to integration was not unique, it was notable for having occurred within the broader context of statewide “massive resistance”.

The schools of Richmond, unlike those in some other localities in Virginia, remained open but segregated, a policy designed to avoid integration without flagrant defiance of the law. By choosing this subtler form of defiance, city officials were able, in effect, to stave off integration for nearly two decades.

The Color of Their Skin also covers Richmond politics concerning the issue. The clash of conservative idealogues such as James J. Kilpatrick and former governor Mills Godwin with activist black attorneys like Oliver W. Hill and Samuel W. Tucker bred a “conservatively” moderate element that was represented on the Richmond school board by the likes of board president (and later Supreme Court Justice) Lewis F. Powell.

Powell attempted to chart a course between the extreme factions, a course that Pratt accurately describes as “tokenism”, since only a handful of blacks was ever admitted to Richmond’s schools until the 1970 school busing decree.

Pratt demonstrates howthe impact of school desegregation was felt beyond the schools, in the demographics of the city itself. Because of the glacial slowness of the integration process, intransigent whites had time to flee the city school system and to establish their children in private or suburbs.