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209 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Topeka at the turn of the 20th Century -- The Great Depression and Topeka's Mexican community -- Settling in years : early life of Mexicans in the Bottoms -- World War II : Bottom's boys go off to war -- The Hill Packing Company -- Growing up in the Bottoms during the 1940's and 1950's -- The Great Topeka Flood of 1951 -- The birth of rock n' roll, the Bottoms, and the 1950's -- School days -- Race, ethnicity and cultural diversity in the Bottoms -- A chronology of Topeka's urban renewal project -- The Bottoms reunions. |
| Summary |
"More than one half century ago, in early March of 1956, the city of Topeka, Kansas, took the first step in a long, slow, obstacle-filled road to implement a landmark urban renewal program that eventually targeted a twenty-seven square block area known to many of the people who lived there as "The Bottoms." As things turned out, by December of 193, almost all of the residents of the Bottoms has been dispossessed and relocated. In addition, by June of 1964, virtually all of the buildings in the area had been razed and the vacant lots were being rapidly sold to developers. Thus, in the space of eight short years, a neighborhood that had existed in Topeka, Kansas since before the city was chartered in 1857, was completely demolished and relegated to history and the memories of the people who once lived there."--Inside jacket. |
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Topeka (Kan.) -- History.
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Mexican Americans -- Kansas -- Topeka -- History.
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Mexican Americans. (OCoLC)fst01019072
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Kansas -- Topeka.
(OCoLC)fst01207212
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780985282578 |
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0985282576 |
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