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Darktown

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{{other uses|Darktown (disambiguation)}}Darktown was an African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. It stretched from Peachtree Street and Collins Street (now Courtland Street), past Butler Ave. (now Jesse Hill Jr. Ave.) to Jackson Street.^[1] It referred to the blocks above Auburn Avenue in what is now Downtown Atlanta and the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. Darktown was characterized in the 1930s as a "hell-hole of squalor, degradation, sickness, crime and misery".^[2]

The term "darktown" was also used generically in Atlanta and the rest of the South to refer to African-American districts. It is used as such in the title of the famous song Darktown Strutters' Ball and 1899 Charles Hale song, At a Darktown Cakewalk.

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References

1. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=tKsZr8Jte-MC Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary By Stephen Calt, p.69]
2. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=hZYGqOZbWcoC The separate city: Black communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968, p.130, Christopher Silver, John V. Moeser]
3. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=hZYGqOZbWcoC The separate city: Black communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968, p.130, Christopher Silver, John V. Moeser]

3 : Former shantytowns and slums in Atlanta|African-American history in Atlanta|Old Fourth Ward

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