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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.
It is one of two places of the same name in Raleigh on the National Register of Historic Places, the other being the much larger Masonic Temple Building, Fayetteville Street (Raleigh, North Carolina), which was also built in 1907. [1] Today it is occupied by Widow's Son Lodge #4 and Excelsior Lodge #21 as well as barber shops and a beauty salon ...
Walker can point up and down the street to where different businesses were located: Black and white barber shops and beauty parlors, a furniture store, clothiers, a Black laundry, Black-owned ...
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]
Vice President Kamala Harris should seek to earn the vote of Black men by visiting barbershops and discussing issues that affect them, as a new NAACP poll reveals that over one quarter of Black ...
Lincoln Heights (mostly burned down in September 2022 fire; parts of Weed have some Black residents but fewer compared to mid-20th century when most of the Black community worked on the railroads). Mono Lake and nearby Bishop, Mammoth Lakes and Round Valley developed large Black percentages near the NV state line.
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Advertisement for Soul City, ca. 1970. Soul City is a community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States.It was a planned community first proposed in 1969 by Floyd McKissick, [1] a civil rights leader and director of the Congress of Racial Equality.