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Article: And Grace Will Lead Me Home--African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas,.(Book review)
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And Grace Will Lead Me Home--African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas,
1865-1928
Michelle M. Mears
Texas Tech U. Press
Lubbock, TX
9780896726543 $45.00 www.ttup.ttu.edu
Thanks to "archival collections [offering] substantial resources," Mears is able to give an unprecedented view of the African American communities in Austin from their beginnings at the end of the Civil War until their were broken up from large-scale city planning in the 1920s. These communities were established on the outskirts of the city usually in conjunction with land owned by blacks where freed slaves felt more secure than in the ...