“Removing the Danger in a Business Way”: the History and Memory of Quakertown, Denton, Texas
Description:
Overall this thesis analyzes a strain of the white supremacist vision in Denton, Texas via a case study of a former middle-class black neighborhood. This former community, Quakertown, was removed by white city officials and leaders in the early 1920s and was replaced with a public city park. Nearly a century later, the story of Quakertown is celebrated in Denton and is remembered through many sites of memory such as a museum, various texts, and several city, county, and state historical markers…
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Date:
August 2015
Creator:
Stallings, Chelsea
Partner:
UNT Libraries