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Chris Asch
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Rosalyn Brown's review
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital:
"Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital is an extraordinary deep dive into the complex history of Washington, D.C. The book moves seamlessly through time, covering the city’s origins on Native American land, its coloni"
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Declan G's review
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital:
"A great book. Answered a vast array of questions I had about DC history, from why home rule was taken away in the first place to why Adrian Fenty lost reelection in 2010. It cites a lot of other books focused on more specific aspects of DC history, s"
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Ryan Winegardner's review
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital:
"Expansive survey of many of America’s essential problems through DC, a microcosm of attempts to control politics and race and the many forms of resistance to these attempts. Greatly appreciated the dense research in grassroots and community organizat"
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BeerBaconBooks's review
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital:
"An amazingly detailed history of Washington DC! If you’re looking for the history of DC, this is the book you wanna read."
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“The warm friendliness that accompanied interracial interactions in town now seemed to be simply a cordial veneer covering latent animosity.”
― The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
― The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
