Built by the People Themselves

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Built by the People Themselves is written by Lindsey Bestebreurtje and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1643364995 (ISBN 10) and 9781643364995 (ISBN 13).

The story of how racial segregation and suburbanization shaped lives, the built environment, and the law in Arlington In Built by the People Themselves, Lindsey Bestebreurtje traces the history of the Black community in Arlington, Virginia, from the first days of emancipation through the civil rights era in the twentieth century. A core insight of her account is how common people developed strategies to survive and thrive despite systems of oppression in the Jim Crow South. Moving beyond the standard story of suburbanization that focuses on elite white community developers, Bestebreurtje analyzes African American–led community development and its effects on Arlington County.