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There are restaurants and coffee shops for sure, but also clothing stores, convenience stores, barbershops, a record store, a yoga studio, event spaces, plenty of residential and even a funeral home.
[1] After he received his freedom and small inheritance, Stanly opened his own barber shop that catered to the wealthy white business people and politicians who were friends of his well-known family. He was popularly known as “Barber Jack.” [ 2 ] Stephen F. Miller, a local lawyer, described Stanly at the time as "a man of dignified presence ...
Ada, Oklahoma, began allowing Black people to open restaurants, barber shops, stores, and hotels by court order as to offer places where "negro witnesses might stay during the [court] session". [130] When threats to those people went unanswered, unnamed parties blew up a Black restaurant with dynamite, seriously injuring one occupant. [130]
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.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday demanded that BRICS member countries commit to not creating a new currency or supporting another currency that would replace the United States dollar ...
Alonzo Herndon. Alonzo "Lon" Franklin Herndon (June 26, 1858 Walton County, Georgia – July 21, 1927) was an African-American entrepreneur and businessman in Atlanta, Georgia.
Barber Farm, also known as Luckland, is a historic farm complex and national historic district located near Cleveland, Rowan County, North Carolina. The Jacob Barber House was built about 1855, and is a two-story, single-pile, three-bay vernacular Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a one-story rear ell and a one-story shed roofed rear ...