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BLACK WALL STREET

In the early decades of the 1900s, Durham acquired national reputation for entrepreneurship. Businesses owned by African Americans lined Parrish Street. Among them were N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. (moved to Parrish, 1906), led by John Merrick, Dr. Aaron Moore, & C. C. Spaulding, and Mechanics and Farmers Bank (1907), led by R. B. Fitzgerald and W. G. Pearson.

G-116Durham County

Where it stands. US 15/501 South Business (Mangum Street) at Parrish Street in Durham

African American historyWork and industry
Always ding dinging Dame Grundy into my ears - What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think?
Thomas MortonSpeed the Plough (1798), Act I, scene i.Born in Durham, nearby. Carolina Quotes record

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