A small neighborhood in northern Frankfort, Kentucky, Crawfish Bottom was located on fifty acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River. ‘Craw’s’ reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city’s Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Douglas A. Boyd’s Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimatel...
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Douglas A. Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky, is a coeditor of Community Memories: A Glimpse of African Americ...
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Taal Engels ● Formaat EPUB ● Pagina’s 240 ● ISBN 9780813140124 ● Bestandsgrootte 4.1 MB ● Uitgeverij The University Press of Kentucky ● Stad Lexington ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2011 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 2479939 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Adobe DRM
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