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Briana Thomas
Black Broadway in Washington, DC
9781467139298
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Before chain coffee shops and luxury high-rises, before desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington’s Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway.
From the early 1900s into the 1950s, African-Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town were free to own businesses on U Street and built what was often described as a “city within a city.” Stores, banks, and barbershops along with theaters, restaurants and hotels crowned a neighborhood know for Black affluence. U Street competed with Harlem in its heyday, and showed Black culture to the world.
Local author and journalist Briana A. Thomas narrates U Street’s rich and unique history from the early triumph of Emancipation to the days of Civil Rights pioneer Mary Church Terrell and music giant Duke Ellington through the recent struggles of gentrification.
Phineas T. Barnum
The Art of Money Getting
9781557094940
Regular price $12.95 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Wealth Secrets from the Greatest Showman
After a wonderful career in which he made and lost fortunes, captivated Kings and Queens, and used his genius, wit and eloquence to entertain millions, P.T. Barnum wrote golden rules for making money. Published in 1880, the Greatest Showman’s The Art of Money Getting reveals his secrets for accumulating vast sums of wealth and issues a program anyone can follow to become rich. Join Barnum and discover a historical treasure of America’s unceasing chase for personal wealth.
