Page 5 - Reflections On Pine
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Understanding our community & our Civil Rights History
• Community
– Segregatedcommunities,schoolsandbusinesses
– Blacksnotallowedtoshopordineinwhiteowned establishments
– BlacknotallowedtorideinAmbulance
• Medical services offered in the basement of the
hospital
– WhitesshoppedonRaceSt.
• a very popular business district where people came from all over the shore to shop
– Blackpeoplecreatedaself-sustainingcommunity and commerce district on Pine St.
• Often referred to as another Black Wall street
