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Atlantic Beach, the Black Pearl
1934
Atlantic Beach, South Carolina
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
A Black businessman bought oceanfront in the 1930s and sold lots to Black families, creating one of the very few Atlantic beaches they could legally use. It incorporated in 1966 and has stayed independent and majority Black-owned ever since, refusing repeated annexation offers and keeping the streets that neighbouring towns barricaded at the boundary. Four blocks wide, and the only town of its kind left on the coast.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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