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List Of African-American Neighborhoods
The list contains the names of cities, districts, and neighborhoods in the U.S. that are predominantly African American or that are strongly associated with African-American culture— either currently or historically. Included are areas that contain high concentrations of blacks or African Americans. Not counted are Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Latinos, Afro-Asian, Afro-Indian, Afro-Polynesian, West African, and Sub-Saharan African immigrants. The largest African-American community is in Atlanta, Georgia; followed by Washington, DC; Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Detroit, Michigan. About 80 percent of the city population is African-American. A quarter of Metro Detroit ( Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties) are African-American. Neighborhoods and Master Planned Communities Alabama Birmingham * 16th Street * East Thomas * Ensley * North Birmingham * Smithfield * Titusville Black Belt of Alabama – 18 counties in Alabama, a total of 52% African- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Neighborhood
African-American neighborhoods or black neighborhoods are types of ethnic enclaves found in many cities in the United States. Generally, an African American neighborhood is one where the majority of the people who live there are African American. Some of the earliest African-American neighborhoods were in New Orleans, Mobile, Atlanta, and other cities throughout the American South, as well as in New York City. In 1830, there were 14,000 " Free negroes" living in New York City. The formation of black neighborhoods is closely linked to the history of segregation in the United States, either through formal laws or as a product of social norms. Black neighborhoods have played an important role in the development of African-American culture. Some neighborhoods endured violent attacks. Black residential segregation has been declining in the United States and many black people are moving to white suburbs. Black people continue to live in poorer neighborhoods than white people and Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne County, Michigan
Wayne County is the most populous County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of 2020, the United States census placed its population at 1,793,561, making it the List of the most populous counties in the United States, 19th-most populous county in the United States. The county seat is Detroit. The county was founded in 1796 and organized in 1815. Wayne County is included in the Detroit-Warren, Michigan, Warren-Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn, MI Metro Detroit, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is one of several U.S. counties named after American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War-era general Anthony Wayne. History Wayne County was the Northwest Territory#Counties, sixth county in the Northwest Territory, formed August 15, 1796, from portions of Hamilton County, Ohio#History, territorial Hamilton County, Knox County, Indiana#History, territorial Knox County and unorganized territory. It was named for the U.S. general Anthony Wayne, "Mad Anthony" Wayne. It o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skyline, Alabama
Skyline is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. The town incorporated in 1985.James Kaetz,Skyline" ''Encyclopedia of Alabama'', December 13, 2012. As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 851, up from 843 in 2000. History Skyline began in 1934 as a cooperative farming experiment known as "Cumberland Farms" under President Franklin Roosevelt's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. This was one of 43 such projects attempted nationally in depressed areas. It was soon renamed "Skyline Farms" to avoid confusion with another project in neighboring Tennessee. The experiment lasted for a decade before being sold off to private buyers in 1944.David Campbell,Skyline Farms" ''Encyclopedia of Alabama'', May 22, 2008. The current town of Skyline is located about a mile north of the original farming colony. Geography Skyline is located at (34.802946, -86.123494). The town is situated atop the Cumberland Plateau in western Jackson County. The plateau towns of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prichard, Alabama
Prichard is a city in Mobile County, Alabama, Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population was 19,322 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, and was estimated to be 18,816 in 2023. Prichard borders the north side of Mobile, Alabama, Mobile, as well as the Mobile suburbs of Chickasaw, Alabama, Chickasaw, Saraland, Alabama, Saraland, and the unincorporated sections of Eight Mile, Alabama, Eight Mile. History Prichard began as a settlement in the 1830s, bordering Telegraph Road (known now as U.S. Highway 43). It was named for Cleveland Mason Prichard (1840-1899), who purchased a tract of land (1879) on the east side of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio [GM&O] Railroad track and developed it into a vegetable-shipping point for markets in the North and East. This business model was copied by entrepreneurs throughout Florida, Texas and other states. Newspapers of the time referred to Cleveland Prichard as "The Vegetable King." Cleveland's brother, Hardy, worked with him in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montgomery, Alabama
Montgomery is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama. Named for Continental Army major general Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River on the Gulf Coastal Plain. The population was 200,603 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the List of municipalities in Alabama, third-most populous city in the state, after Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville and Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham, and the List of United States cities by population, 133rd-most populous in the United States. The Montgomery metropolitan area's population in 2022 was 385,460; it is the fourth-largest in the state and 142nd among Metropolitan statistical area, U.S. metropolitan areas. Montgomery is the county seat, seat of Montgomery County, Alabama, Montgomery County. The city was incorporated in 1819 as a merger of two towns situated along the Alabama River. It replaced Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Tuscaloosa as the state capital in 1846, representing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leinkauf Historic District
The Leinkauf Historic District is a historic district in the city of Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... on June 24, 1987. It is roughly bounded by Government, Eslava, Lamar, and Monterey Streets. The district covers and contains 303 contributing buildings. The buildings range in age from the 1820s to early 20th century and cover a variety of 19th- and 20th-century architectural styles. ''See also:'' References 1987 establishments in Alabama Historic districts in Mobile, Alabama National Register of Historic Places in Mobile, Alabama Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alabama {{Alabama-NRHP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Dauphin Street Historic District
The Lower Dauphin Street Historic District is a historic district in the city of Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 1979. The district encompasses all of Dauphin Street from Water Street to Jefferson Street. It covers and contains 736 contributing buildings. The boundaries were increased on February 19, 1982, June 30, 1995, August 14, 1998, and September 3, 2019. The buildings range in age from the 1820s to the 20th century and include the Federal, Greek Revival, Queen Anne, Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style combined its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century It ..., and various other Victorian architectural styles. Gallery Examples of architecture within the Lower Dauphin Street Historic District: Image:Cathedral of Immaculate Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population was 187,041 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. After a successful vote to annex areas west of the city limits in July 2023, Mobile's population increased to 204,689 residents, making it the List of municipalities in Alabama, second-most populous city in Alabama. Mobile is the principal municipality of the Mobile metropolitan area. Alabama's only saltwater port, Mobile is located on the Mobile River at the head of Mobile Bay on the north-central Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast. The Port of Mobile has always played a key role in the economic health of the city, beginning with the settlement as an important trading center between the French colonization of the Americas, French colonists and Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans, down to its current role as the 12th-largest port in the United States.Drechsel, Emanuel. ''Mobilian Jargon: Lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobson City, Alabama
Hobson City is a town in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 759. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hobson City became Alabama's first self-governed all-black municipality in 1899 and continues to have an African American majority. The town of Hobson City, originally known as Mooree Quarters, was a Black settlement established in 1868 within a section of Oxford, Alabama. In 1890, a pivotal moment occurred when a Black man ran for Justice of the Peace in Oxford. Mayor Whitehead threatened that if the Black candidate won, he would redraw the town’s boundary lines to exclude Mooree Quarters. When the Black man won the election, the threat was carried out, and in 1896, Mooree Quarters was officially removed from Oxford’s town limits. Under the 1899 Alabama Constitution, voting eligibility was restricted by stringent requirements, including being a male over 21, owning at least 40 acres of land, pay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Belt (region Of Alabama)
The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region's rich, black soil, much of it in the soil order Vertisols. The term took on an additional meaning in the 19th century, when the region was developed for cotton plantation agriculture, in which the workers were enslaved African Americans. After the American Civil War, many freedmen stayed in the area as sharecroppers and tenant farmers, continuing to comprise a majority of the population in many of these counties. The physical geography of the "Black Belt" refers to a much larger region of the Southern United States, stretching from Delaware to Texas but centered on uplands areas of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In the Antebellum and Jim Crow eras, the white elite of the Black Belt dominated Alabama state politics well into the 1960s, a trend that has continued to the current day. As in other Southern states, the white-dominated state legislature of Alabama p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titusville, Birmingham, Alabama
Titusville is a historic neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, United States southeast of Ensley near UAB's campus. It is centered on 6th Avenue South between downtown Birmingham and Elmwood Cemetery. It includes its neighborhood associations with North Titusville, South Titusville, and Woodland Park. History In 1910, Robert Ingersoll Ingalls, Sr. (1882–1951) founded Ingalls Iron Works in Titusville. (He later went on to found Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1938). Since the early twentieth century Titusville has been a neighborhood of middle-class African American families, including architect Wallace Rayfield; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Birmingham mayor William Bell; former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford; Birmingham city councillor Carole Smitherman; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Harold Jackson.Jeremy GrayRich history of Birmingham's Titusville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
North Birmingham is a community of Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States. Currently the North Birmingham community is further subdivided into six neighborhoods: Acipco-Finley, Collegeville, Fairmont, Harriman Park, Hooper City, and North Birmingham. The community consists of the area north of Downtown Birmingham between Village Creek on the south, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad The Louisville and Nashville Railroad , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of ... to the east, Pratt to the west and the jurisdictional boundary to the north. Originally incorporated as the city of North Birmingham in 1902, it was annexed into the City of Birmingham in 1910. References Former municipalities in Alabama Neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama {{JeffersonCountyAL-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
