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This is a list of African American neighborhoods , containing cities, districts, and neighborhoods in the US that are predominantly African American , or are strongly associated with African American culture , either currently or historically.
Neighborhoods
The city hosts the Atlanta University Center, the largest consortium of historically Black colleges and universities in the country.
Birmingham was a focal point of the civil rights movement, and where the Birmingham campaign took place.
Many important black historical figures have lived in Boston and other parts of Massachusetts
Chicago
Cook County
Eastside Cleveland which includes Hough, St. Clair, Superior, and Glenville.
93rd and WOODHILL, MILES and Down THE Way (king kennedy,case court and 30th projects), East 116th
buckeye road, westside : 2-fifth street (west 25th hood, and the rock)
Here the 12th Street Riot and Detroit Race Riot (1943) took place.
Home of the racially charged East St. Louis Riot .
Frankfort
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers was based here, and was murdered as well. The Freedom Ride also visited here, as the farthest out place they went.
Was a stop on the Underground Railroad .
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Long Beach
The 1979 death of Arthur McDuffie at the hands of white Miami-Dade police officers led to one of the worst race riots in American history.
Features three of the leading historically black colleges and universities in the United States.
New York City
Long Island
Rockland County
Westchester County
Orange County
Langston University is the only historically black college in the state.
Frankfort, NE
City Neighborhoods
Suburbs
Washington has had a significant black population since the city's creation. It was the first major[clarification needed city in America to become majority black and the first major city in America to have a majority black police department.
References
See also
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Sports
Athletic associations
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