Black Metropolis Commercial Geography (35th/State vs. 47th Street)

CTL-E-0918 · Policy · 1908-1950

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Black-owned commercial core on east State between 35th and 39th (1908-1931); the 47th Street district was principally white-developed and financed.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:policy-commercial-geography; source research type(s): policy.

Sources

NPS (1985); Semmes (2006)

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