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The Fourth Avenue district
1900
Birmingham, Alabama
Chris Pruitt · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Segregation produced a self-contained Black business district of theatres, banks, doctors and insurance offices a few blocks from downtown. A. G. Gaston built a fortune here from a funeral home and later bankrolled the movement that broke the system his wealth depended on.
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