Black Wall Street - Durham NC
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Black Wall Street-In the early decades of the 1900's Durham acquired national reputation for entrepreneurship. Businesses owned by African Americans lined Parrish Street.
Waymark Code: WM16WT3
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 10/19/2022
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LOCATION: Intersection of North Mangum Street (Business U.S. 501) and West Parrish Street, Durham NC 27701
TEXT ON THE NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL MARKER:
Black Wall Street
In the early decades of the 1900's Durham acquired national reputation for entrepreneurship. Businesses owned by African Americans lined Parrish Street. Among them were N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. (moved to Parrish, 1906), led by John Merrick. Dr. Aaron Moore, & C.C. Spaulding and Mechanics and Farmers Bank (1907), led by R.B. Fitzgerald and W.G. Pearson.
Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)
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