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Sweet Auburn, the richest Black street in America
1910
Auburn Avenue, Atlanta
Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
After 1906 Black business concentrated on this half-mile, and by the 1950s Fortune called it the richest Negro street in the world. The Atlanta Daily World, the country's first Black daily, published here from 1928.
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