Hayti / Black Wall Street Durham
Durham's historic Black district anchored by NC Mutual Life — once the largest Black-owned business in the world.
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From the 1890s to the 1960s, Hayti was a self-sustaining Black community of over 200 businesses. Most of the district was destroyed by urban-renewal demolition for I-147 in the late 1960s; the Hayti Heritage Center preserves what remained.
Location
804 Old Fayetteville St, Durham, NC, USA
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