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The Land Was Ours

How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

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The Land Was Ours

How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of beachfront property in the Chesapeake, along the Carolina shores, and around the Gulf of Mexico was owned and populated by African Americans. Blending social and environmental history, Andrew W. Kahrl tells the story of African American–owned beaches in the twentieth century. By reconstructing African American life along the coast, Kahrl demonstrates just how important these properties were for African American communities and leisure, as well as for economic empowerment, especially during the era of the Jim Crow South. However, in the wake of the civil rights movement and amid the growing prosperity of the Sunbelt, many African Americans fell victim to effective campaigns to dispossess black landowners of their properties and beaches. Kahrl makes a signal contribution to our understanding of African American landowners and real-estate developers, as well as the development of coastal capitalism along the southern seaboard, tying the creation of overdeveloped, unsustainable coastlines to the unmaking of black communities and cultures along the shore. The result is a skillful appraisal of the ambiguous legacy of racial progress in the Sunbelt.

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1469628732

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The Land Was Ours

How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

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Free the Beaches

The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

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Free the Beaches

The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

The story of our separate and unequal America in the making, and one man's fight against it During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America's most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one‑time presidential candidate Ned Coll of Connecticut, a state that permitted public access to a mere seven miles of its 253‑mile shoreline. Nearly all of the state's coast was held privately, for the most part by white, wealthy residents. This book is the first to tell the story of the controversial protester who gathered a band of determined African American mothers and children and challenged the racist, exclusionary tactics of homeowners in a state synonymous with liberalism. Coll's legacy of remarkable successes--and failures--illuminates how our nation's fragile coasts have not only become more exclusive in subsequent decades but also have suffered greater environmental destruction and erosion as a result of that private ownership.

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Yale University Press

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0300215142

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9780300215144

The Black Tax

150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

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150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

Andrew Kahrl's enraging national assessment of legal and financial dispossession proves that African Americans property owners have long been beset by racist practices, invisible obstacles, and hidden traps that leave them vulnerable to economic predation. Kahrl focuses specially on how property taxes have been used to swindle African Americans out of their land, with the cooperation of public officials and courts. These racist regimes fund and reinforce inequity, with blacks paying more in taxes than whites as they lose tremendous inheritable wealth to whites. There is something more fundamental than the "forty acres" of settlement lore: the taxes on them"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022673059X

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9780226730592

The Black Tax

150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

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150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America

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Free the Beaches

The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline

By: Andrew W. Kahrl

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The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America's Most Exclusive Shoreline

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“A well-documented—and dispiriting—history of prejudice and inequality . . . An unsparing exposé of white supremacy among Northern elites.” —Kirkus Reviews During the long, hot summers of the late 1960s and 1970s, one man began a campaign to open some of America’s most exclusive beaches to minorities and the urban poor. That man was anti-poverty activist and one-time presidential candidate Ned Coll of Connecticut, a state that permitted public access to a mere seven miles of its 253-mile shoreline. Nearly all of the state’s coast was held privately, for the most part by white, wealthy residents. This book is the first to tell the story of the controversial protester who gathered a band of determined African American mothers and children and challenged the racist, exclusionary tactics of homeowners in a state synonymous with liberalism. Coll’s legacy of remarkable successes—and failures—illuminates how our nation’s fragile coasts have not only become more exclusive in subsequent decades but also have suffered greater environmental destruction and erosion as a result of that private ownership. Winner of the Homer D. Babbidge Award, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Connecticut History Winner of the 2019 Connecticut Book Awards, non-fiction category, sponsored by Connecticut Center for the Book “This is a life story brimming with humanity and a great antidote to life under global capitalism, in which privatization is all the rage. Andrew Kahrl’s book is sure to have a sorely needed humanizing effect on all its readers.” —Ted Steinberg, award-winning author of Gotham Unbound: The Ecological History of Greater New York

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Yale University Press

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0300235410

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9780300235418

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

By: Andrew Dickson White,Perfect Library

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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II", by Andrew Dickson White. Andrew Dickson White was a diplomat, historian and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University (1832-1918).

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1507804768

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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

By: Andrew Dickson White,Perfect Library

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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume I", by Andrew Dickson White. Andrew Dickson White was a diplomat, historian and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University (1832-1918).

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Book's by Andrew W. Kahrl

The Land Was Ours

The Land Was Ours

The Land Was Ours

The Land Was Ours

Free the Beaches

Free the Beaches

The Black Tax

The Black Tax

The Black Tax

The Black Tax

Free the Beaches

Free the Beaches

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

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