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  2. The Philadelphia Negro - Wikipedia

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    In order to collect survey data, Du Bois and his wife moved into the 7th ward of Philadelphia; he then distributed the survey in impoverished quarters on Saint Mary Street, from 1896 to 1897. With his only appointed assistant, Isabel Eaton, Du Bois employed "archival research, descriptive statistics, and questionnaires."

  3. History of African Americans in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Using statistics Du Bois created from his survey data, Du Bois compared the occupation, income, education, family size, health, drug use, criminal activity, and suffrage of black and white residents living in the Seventh Ward and to Philadelphia's other wards. [26]

  4. Frenchmen Street - Wikipedia

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    Frenchmen Street is in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana.It is best known for the three-block section in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood which since the 1980s has developed as the center of many popular live-music venues, [1] including Cafe Negril, Favela Chic, Vaso, Apple Barrel, Blue Nile, Snug Harbor, the Spotted Cat, and the Maison.

  5. William ‘Bill’ Beavers, former 7th Ward Alderman and Cook ...

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    Beavers was elected as 7th Ward Alderman in 1983 and served in that position until 2006. He was then elected as Commissioner for the 4th District of Cook County, serving in that position from 2006-13.

  6. Opal Lee - Wikipedia

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    The Flakes later moved to the 7th Ward of Fort Worth, also known as Terrell Heights. [9] [10] In June 1939, her parents bought a house in the 900 block of East Annie Street, then a mostly white area. On June 19, 1939, 500 white rioters vandalized and burned down their home. Lee was twelve years old at the time. [11]

  7. This Musician Asks Kids to Trade Their Guns in for Trumpets ...

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    Shamarr Allen was dozing at home one evening last July when he was startled awake by a TV news item. There had been a shooting among a group of children in the 7th Ward of New Orleans, only a few ...

  8. Angel Cruz - Wikipedia

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    Cruz is the Ward Leader of the 7th Ward Democratic Executive Committee. [4] References External links. Pennsylvania House of Representatives - Angel Cruz, Jr. ...

  9. Emilie Davis - Wikipedia

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    Emilie "Emily" Frances Davis (February 18, 1839 – December 26, 1889) was a free African American woman living in Philadelphia during the American Civil War.She wrote three pocket diaries for the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 recounting her perspective on the Emancipation Proclamation, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the mourning of President Lincoln. [1]