upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Catherine will publish Walking the Uptown, a book exploring West Chester’s West End, a historic African American neighborhood and birthplace of Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin. This is the second publication by Catherine about the West End that will focus on the early black business community and industrial job sites of African Americans from the mid-1800s to the 1960s. Walking the Uptown will also include landmarks related to Bayard Rustin, such as the restaurants and theaters where Rustin encouraged sit-ins and other forms of activism.