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Awesome Black Concentration Camps: Did The Government Purposefully Create Ghettos To Keep Whites And Blacks Segregated? Austin Neighborhoods, African American Family, Breathtaking Photography, Gordon Parks, My Hood, Chicago Photos, Century City, Chicago City, The Windy City

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure.The term was originally used in Venice to describe the part of the city to which Jews were restricted and segregated. The story of how America’s ghettos came to be is one that has misled many over the ...

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This photo, taken in the old Brooklyn neighborhood, was typical of the image often presented of Charlotte's historically black neighborhood near uptown. In reality, the area was made up of mixed-income residences and businesses. Poverty did exist, but so did spacious brick homes, movie theaters, corner stores, churches and professional buildings. Black Neighborhood, Brick Homes, Brooklyn Neighborhoods, Demolition Man, Black Life, Water Purification System, Grace Jones, Movie Theaters, Urban Renewal

In Charlotte’s recent history, numerous black neighborhoods have been torn down or sliced in half by highways in the name of progress. Much of this occurred in the 1960s and ’70s, as Charlotte embarked on an “urban renewal” plan that destroyed its largest black neighborhood – a community known as Brooklyn.

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Madam C J Walker, Dream Flat, City Neighborhood, Radio Video, Harlem New York, York Travel, Audre Lorde, New York Travel Guide, Cultural Capital

While the New York City neighborhood of Harlem is widely celebrated as a historic stronghold of Black culture, where artists of the Harlem Renaissance and activists of the civil rights movement made a home, visitors are rarely informed of the women who contributed to its storied legacy. These sites are where Billie Holiday, Audre Lorde, and Madam C.J. Walker, among others, made their historic marks as long ago as the mid-1800s.

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