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The Sweet Auburn Historic District is a historic African-American neighborhood along and surrounding Auburn Avenue, east of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States.The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the "richest Negro street in the world," one of the largest concentrations of African-American businesses in the United States.
He's following in the footsteps of Watkins – the first Black woman in Atlanta to become a licensed real estate broker and founder of Lottie Watkins Enterprises in 1960, according to her obituary ...
The New Black Wall Street opened in 2021 is a 125,000-square-foot marketplace in Stonecrest that houses over 100 Black merchants and entertainment. [42] The marketplace is inspired by the popular Black business district that was based in Tulsa, Oklahoma .
Underground Atlanta, Inc. was incorporated May 2, 1967, and began acquiring options to lease buildings under Central Ave, Pryor, Whitehall, Hunter, Alabama, and Wall Street viaducts. Fuller and Paterson purchased all the corporation's stock in October 1967 and construction began in November 1968. [8]
"Beautiful, bustling, and Black"—that was how author, attorney, and activist Hannibal B. Johnson described Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District in his book "Black Wall Street: From Riot to ...
President Trump on Friday unveiled his "Platinum Plan" at an event in Atlanta, which is aimed at investing $500 billion in Black communities. ... 6 percent margin in a July NBC News/Wall Street ...
Racial segregation in Atlanta has known many phases after the freeing of the slaves in 1865: a period of relative integration of businesses and residences; Jim Crow laws and official residential and de facto business segregation after the Atlanta Race Riot of 1906; blockbusting and black residential expansion starting in the 1950s; and gradual integration from the late 1960s onwards.
Here's who secured Wall Street bragging rights in every key business in 2017 Alipay expands US network with 35,000 new merchants The CEO of a $20 billion financial data company tells us why he won ...