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In southwest Atlanta, Black-owned businesses are keeping the history of their neighborhoods alive – and it all starts with a cup of coffee. Black-owned cafés and cooperatives in the area, many ...
The Black Side: a partial history of the business, religious, and educational side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. (1894) Dorsey, Allison. To build our lives together: Community formation in Black Atlanta, 1875-1906 (University of Georgia Press, 2004) online. Ferguson, Karen Jane. Black politics in New Deal Atlanta (Univ of North Carolina Press ...
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.
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.
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39% of Black-owned businesses were owned by Black women in 2021, while men owned 53%. In the 2023 fiscal year, the SBA backed 4,781 loans to Black-owned businesses, totaling $1.45 billion.
Fearless Fund, an Atlanta-based venture capital firm, was sued last week for discrimination for considering only businesses owned by Black women for a grant program.
The restaurant is known for continuing the cooking traditions of MacKenzie and her successor, Margaret Lupo, who owned the Tea Room from 1962 until 1994. It has hosted many famous visitors, including Dalai Lama , John Lewis , James Brown , Beyonce , Hillary Clinton , Alan Jackson , and Jimmy Carter , who ate at Mary Mac's so frequently he had a ...