Chapter 2 “God Led Me to Albany”

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Shubuta, Mississippi: Home of the Red Artesian Well 9
7. “God Led Me to Albany” 31
8. “Whatever We Needed, He Could Get It” 69
9. Change Comes to Rapp Road 89
10. “I Needed to Let People Know the Community Was Here” 105
11. Looking Back at the Rapp Road Experience 127
12. Appendixes
13. Map of the United States 132
14. WPA Photographs of Mississippi, circa 1930 133
15. Appendix 3 136
16. Detail of Albany Ward Map, 1930 137
17. Abridged List of African American Housing Conditions in Albany, New York, circa 1928 138
18. Rent Charges for African American Housing in Albany, New York, circa 1928 140
19. Photographs of Albany’s South End, circa 1940 142
20. Photographs of Rapp Road Community Members 144
21. List of Original Landowners and Purchase Dates of Land on Rapp Road, Albany, New York 148
22. Photographs of Rapp Road Houses, circa 1990 150
23. Photographs of Fields on Rapp Road 155
24. Comparison Photographs of Shubuta and Rapp Road 156
25. Maps on and around the Rapp Road Community 160
26. Notes 163
27. Works Cited 181
28. Index 187