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Black Men Built the Capitol, Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.

Black Men Built the Capitol, Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C.

by Jesse J. Holland

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 192 PAGES

A ground-breaking account of Washington D.C.'s rich African American history including a look at the previously uncredited men who built many of the capitol's most important buildings and monuments.  (WDC23, $14.95)


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