Urbanization & Upbuilding Black Durham (1900-1950)
While Durham County was still largely farmland, the first decades of the 1900s saw incredible urban growth as the city's population swelled from less than 7,000 in 1900 to more than 60,000 in 1940. The rapidly expanding city came of age during the Jim Crow era (1896-1964), a time defined by a racial caste system shaped by both laws and social ...
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