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  2. Durham residents ask for city’s help to renovate historic ...

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    They want $500,000 to breathe new life into the century-old home of NC’s first Black funeral director. Durham residents ask for city’s help to renovate historic Black home into hotel Skip to ...

  3. Alexander Funeral Home - Wikipedia

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    The Alexander Funeral Home is the oldest African American owned business in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Alexander Funeral Home was founded by Zechariah Alexander in 1914 when Alexander bought half of Coles and Smith Undertakes. In 1927 Alexander purchased the remaining part of the business and changed the name to the Alexander Funeral Home.

  4. Hayti, Durham, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. List of African-American historic places in North Carolina

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    Alamance - Buncombe - Burke - Caswell - Cumberland - Durham - Forsyth - Franklin - Guilford - Granville - Iredell - Johnston - Mecklenburg - Polk - Rockingham - Rowan - Vance - Wake - Warren - Wilson Some of these sites are on the National Register of Historic Places ( NR ) as independent sites or as part of larger historic district .

  6. A lifetime of racism makes Alzheimer’s more prevalent in ...

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    It will be, Jessica Guthrie says, in a Black-owned funeral home, with the songs of her ancestors. Constance has lived 74 years, many of them good, as a Black woman, a mother, educator and ...

  7. A funeral fit for a princess: Durham men honor city’s ... - AOL

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  8. Black-owned business - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, black-owned businesses (or black businesses), also known as African American businesses, originated in the days of slavery before 1865. Emancipation and civil rights permitted businessmen to operate inside the American legal structure starting in the Reconstruction Era (1863–77) and afterwards.

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