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  2. American ghettos - Wikipedia

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    Protest sign at a housing project in Detroit, 1942. Ghettos in the United States are typically urban neighborhoods perceived as being high in crime and poverty. The origins of these areas are specific to the United States and its laws, which created ghettos through both legislation and private efforts to segregate America for political, economic, social, and ideological reasons: de jure [1 ...

  3. African-American neighborhood - Wikipedia

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    The Great Migration was the movement of more than one million African Americans out of rural Southern United States from 1914 to 1940. Most African Americans who participated in the migration moved to large industrial cities such as New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C ...

  4. San Juan Hill, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    The area's musical history continues today at Jazz at Lincoln Center. [6] Historian Marcy S. Sacks writes that San Juan Hill had many tenement basement clubs ranging from dives to higher-level clubs. And that there were also poolrooms, saloons, dance halls, and bordellos. [7] [page needed] Before there was Harlem, there was San Juan Hill.

  5. Black Bottom, Detroit - Wikipedia

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    This project was cancelled and moved to a different location downtown in 2021. [25] The site remains empty with no concrete plans as of early 2024. In September 2022, the Federal Highway Administration awarded Detroit a $104-million grant for the I-375 project which would demolish the current 1.062 mile-long sunken highway to construct a ...

  6. English Avenue and Vine City - Wikipedia

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    The area south of Simpson Road — today's Vine City — was settled at the end of the 1800s by large land owners, and a predominantly African-American residential area was established, though there were also white subdivisions, schools, and churches. A mix of social classes were present.

  7. Her nails miraculously look like they were freshly perfected by her NY-based manicurist. In the accompanying caption, she wrote, “Finished product great assist from @viccaputo. TY ...

  8. Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Hell's Kitchen, also known as Clinton, or Midtown West on real estate listings is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States.It is considered to be bordered by 34th Street (or 41st Street) to the south, 59th Street to the north, Eighth Avenue to the east, and the Hudson River to the west.

  9. The hidden dangers of acrylic nails and why you might ... - AOL

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    Pay close attention to how strong and think your nails are. Extremely thin nails may not be the best for acrylics. 4. It might be hard to spot, but infection below the nail bed can become all too ...