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Gum Springs: The Triumph of a Black Community

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Title: Gum Springs: The Triumph of a Black Community
Repository: City of Fairfax Library - Virginia Room
975.529 C
Date Created: 1990
Creator: By: John Terry Chase
Description: This book tells the history of Gum Springs from its creation by West Ford until the late 1980s at the time it was written. The book explores the challenges Gum Springs faced throughout the middle of the 20th century, and discusses the work by the community to always improve itself even in the face of these challenges.
Research Themes: Gum Springs
Black Organizing
Saunders B. Moon Community Action Association
Black Geographies
Poverty Programs
Housing
Education
Slow Violence
Displacement in place
Community organization
Community resistance
Type: Book
Relation: A history of Gum Springs, Virginia: a report of a case of leadership in a black enclave; Neighborhood Analysis: Gum Springs, Mount Vernon District, Fairfax County, Virginia
Bibliographic Citation: Chase, John Terry. Gum Springs: The Triumph of a Black Community. Fairfax, Virginia: Heritage Resources Program of the Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning, 1990.

Item sets: NORTHERN VIRGINIA ARCHIVE OF BLACK COMMUNITY RESISTANCE

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