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Azurest and the Black Hamptons
1947
Sag Harbor, New York
CaptJayRuffins · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
When the rest of the Hamptons would not sell to them, Black families bought wooded lots on the bay side of Sag Harbor and built three beach communities of their own, Azurest, Sag Harbor Hills, Ninevah. Teachers, doctors and artists summered here for generations, Lena Horne and Colin Powell among them, in a stretch of the richest coast in America that belonged to them.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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