Black Broadway in Washington, DC

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Briana A. Thomas
Arcadia Publishing

Known as Black Broadway, from the early 1900s to the 1950s, African Americans plagued by Jim Crow laws in other parts of town built businesses in this "city within a city". Read about Washington's Greater U Street's early triumphs of emancipation through to its recent struggles of gentrification.

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