Alley Life in Washington

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Alley Life in Washington is written by James Borchert and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252054903 (ISBN 10) and 9780252054907 (ISBN 13).

Forgotten today, established Black communities once existed in the alleyways of Washington, D.C., even in neighborhoods as familiar as Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. James Borchert's study delves into the lives and folkways of the largely alley dwellers and how their communities changed from before the Civil War, to the late 1890s era when almost 20,000 people lived in alley houses, to the effects of reform and gentrification in the mid-twentieth century.