Government-Local-Black Community
Gentrification, Integration or Displacement?: The Seattle Story
In the following article, Henry W. McGee, Jr., a Seattle University Professor of Law and Central District resident, discusses the...
Oak Hill, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1920-1950)
The Oak Hill neighborhood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had in the first decade of the 20th Century been the residence...
Sinclair Park, Kitsap County, Washington (1943-1948)
Bremerton, Washington became a major employment center during World War II when the Puget Sound Navy Yard expanded to meet wartime...
Five Points, Denver, Colorado (ca. 1885- )
Denver, Colorado’s Five Points community originated in the 1880s as an upper middle-class neighborhood for professional and business men. The...
Davis Bend, Mississippi (1865-1887)
Davis Bend, Mississippi was an all-black town near Vicksburg, sometimes referred to as Davis Bend colony. It was a 4,000-acre...
