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Former North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company and Mechanics and Farmers Bank building. Black Wall Street was the hub of African-American businesses and financial services in Durham, North Carolina, during the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is located on Parrish Street. [1] It was home to Mechanics and Farmers Bank and North Carolina Mutually
Hayti (pronounced "HAY-tie"), also called Hayti District, is the historic African-American community that is now part of the city of Durham, North Carolina. [1] It was founded as an independent black community shortly after the American Civil War on the southern edge of Durham by freedmen coming to work in tobacco warehouses and related jobs in the city.
The Moore Square Historic District is a registered historic district located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the district is centered on Moore Square, one of two surviving four-acre (1.6 hm) parks from Raleigh's original 1792 plan. [2]
Owned by Mike Potter, best known for creating the annual beer festival Blacktoberfest, Proximity will hold its grand opening Friday, Dec. 15, at its taproom and production space at 491 S. Driver St.
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Support Black-owned restaurants in Raleigh and Wake with this list that covers seafood, barbecue, Jamaican food, coffee and much more.
It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in North Carolina was the Journal of Freedom of Raleigh, which published its first issue on September 30, 1865. [1] The African American press in North Carolina has historically been centered on a few large cities such as Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro. [2]
The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company headquarters in Durham N.C. By far the most prominent black entrepreneur of the century of was Charles Clinton Spaulding (1874 – 1952), president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in Durham, North Carolina. [29] [30] It was the nation's largest black-owned business. It operated a ...