Trip Down My Memory Lane
Post is 2 years old (2019) and that makes it Black History!! It went with an article from MSNBC about Gentrification.
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Listen and learn.
Yes this happens about every 50 years. My grandparents purchased a house on Bloodworth street from a white couple when they moved in the 1940's...when many African Americans were living in the county or Oberlin or Smoky Hollow. I came home from St. Agnes to Washington Terrace apartments about 8 years after they were built. Madonna Acres and Golden Acres, Biltmore Hills and Rochester Heights were built for middle class African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
Desegregation of the Raleigh communities wasn't an easy thing. There were streets that became dividing lines of race and class. Streets like New Bern Avenue and Person Street. There were areas that the white middle class didn't want to live in and that the African American middle class didn't want to live in.
In the 1960s, when "Urban Renewal"...
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Born at St. Agnes Hospital on the grounds of St. Augustine's College (now University) to a pharmacist and educator who were family fierce and community proud, I have heard, read, and researched Raleigh's Black history for most of my life. Join me here. I'll share what I have learned with you!
