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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church or AME, is a predominantly African-American Methodist denomination based in the United States.
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African-American businesses
African-American businesses, also known as black-owned businesses or black businesses, originated in the days of slavery before 1865.
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African-American middle class
The black middle class consists of black Americans who have middle-class status within the American class structure.
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African-American upper class
The African-American upper class consists of African-American engineers, lawyers, accountants, doctors, politicians, business executives, venture capitalists, CEOs, celebrities, entertainers, entrepreneurs and heirs who have incomes amounting to $200,000 or more.
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Alonzo Herndon
Alonzo Franklin Herndon (June 26, 1858 Walton County, Georgia – July 21, 1927) was an African-American entrepreneur and businessman in Atlanta, Georgia.
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APEX Museum
The APEX Museum ("African American Panoramic Experience") is a museum of history presented from the black perspective.
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Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.
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Atlanta Daily World
The Atlanta Daily World is the oldest black newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1928.
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Atlanta Life
The Atlanta Life Financial Group was founded by Alonzo Herndon in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Atlanta Police Department
The Atlanta Police Department is the law enforcement agency of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. The city shifted from its rural-based Marshal and Deputy Marshal model at the end of the 19th century.
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Atlanta race riot
The Atlanta race riot of 1906 was an attack of armed white mobs against blacks in Atlanta, Georgia (United States), which began the evening of September 22 and lasted through September 24, 1906.
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Atlanta Streetcar
Atlanta Streetcar, or simply the Downtown Loop, is a streetcar line in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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Atlanta University Center
The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUC Consortium) is the largest contiguous consortium of African Americans in higher education in the United States.
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B.B. King
Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.
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Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.
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Big Bethel AME Church
The Big Bethel AME Church is the oldest African-American congregation in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, and according to AME historical documents, it is the mother church of AME in North Georgia.
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Boulevard (Atlanta)
Boulevard is a street in and, as a corridor, a subdistrict, of the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Centennial Olympic Park
Centennial Olympic Park is a public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority.
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Church (building)
A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for worship services.
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Controlled-access highway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.
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Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
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Downtown Atlanta
Downtown Atlanta is the central business district of Georgia, United States.
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Downtown Connector
In Downtown Atlanta, the Downtown Connector or I-75/85 (pronounced "seventy-five eighty-five") is the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through the core of the city.
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Edgewood Avenue
Edgewood Avenue is a street in Atlanta running from Five Points in Downtown Atlanta, eastward through the Old Fourth Ward.
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Four Tops
The Four Tops are a vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan, USA, who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s.
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Freedom Parkway
Freedom Park is one of the largest city parks in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.
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Georgia Railroad and Banking Company
The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company also seen as "GARR", was a historic railroad and banking company that operated in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation
The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation is the country's largest statewide, nonprofit preservation organization with more than 8,000 members.
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Gladys Knight
Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
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Grant Park, Atlanta
Grant Park refers to the oldest city park in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, as well as the Victorian neighborhood surrounding it.
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Henry A. Rucker
Henry Allen Rucker (November 14, 1852--May 11, 1924) was an African American entrepreneur and politician.
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Herndon Building
The Herndon Building was a contributing property in the Sweet Auburn Historic District of Atlanta, Georgia, located across Auburn Avenue from the Odd Fellows Building and Auditorium.
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Homelessness
Homelessness is the circumstance when people are without a permanent dwelling, such as a house or apartment.
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Hosea Williams
Hosea Lorenzo Williams (January 5, 1926 – November 16, 2000), was an American civil rights leader, activist, ordained minister, businessman, philanthropist, scientist, and politician.
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India Arie
India Arie Simpson (born October 3, 1975), best known as India.Arie (sometimes styled as india.arie) is an American singer-songwriter, actress, musician, and record producer.
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Inner city
The inner city or inner town is the central area of a major city or metropolis.
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Investment
In general, to invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future – for example, investment in durable goods, in real estate by the service industry, in factories for manufacturing, in product development, and in research and development.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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John Wesley Dobbs
John Wesley Dobbs (March 26, 1882 – August 30, 1961), an African-American civic and political leader, was often referred to as unofficial "mayor" of Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.
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List of National Historic Landmarks in Georgia (U.S. state)
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Georgia.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
The Martin Luther King Jr.
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Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) is the principal public transport operator in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Fulton County, Georgia
This is a list of properties and districts in Fulton County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
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National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a privately funded, nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that works in the field of historic preservation in the United States.
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Neighborhoods in Atlanta
|Note: many unincorporated communities in DeKalb County and Cobb County, Georgia adjacent to Atlanta, including Druid Hills CDP and North Druid Hills, both in Dekalb County and Cumberland, Georgia and Vinings, Georgia, both in Cobb County use "Atlanta" in their postal address but are not part of the City of Atlanta.
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Neighbourhood
A neighbourhood (British English), or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences), is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area.
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events.
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North Avenue (Atlanta)
North Avenue is a major avenue in Atlanta, Georgia that divides Downtown Atlanta from Midtown Atlanta.
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Oakland, Atlanta
Oakland (not to be confused with Oakland City in southwestern Atlanta) is an officially recognized neighborhood of Atlanta consisting of only four blocks.
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Odd Fellows Building and Auditorium
The Odd Fellows Building and Auditorium, located at 228—250 Auburn Avenue, N.E. in the Sweet Auburn Historic District of Atlanta, Georgia, are historic buildings built in 1912 and 1913, respectively, as the headquarters of the District Grand Lodge No.
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Office
An office is generally a room or other area where administrative work is done by an organization's users in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization.
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Old Fourth Ward
The Old Fourth Ward, often abbreviated O4W, is an intown neighborhood on the eastside of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1728 – 4 April 1774) was an Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his plays The Good-Natur'd Man (1768) and She Stoops to Conquer (1771, first performed in 1773).
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Outkast
Outkast (stylized as OutKast) is an American hip hop duo formed in 1991 in East Point, Georgia, composed of Atlanta-based rappers André "André 3000" Benjamin (formerly known as Dré) and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton.
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Police officer
A police officer, also known as an officer, policeman, policewoman, cop, police agent, or a police employee is a warranted law employee of a police force.
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Ponce de Leon Avenue
Ponce de Leon Avenue, often simply called Ponce, provides a link between Atlanta, Decatur, Clarkston, and Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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Public domain
The public domain consists of all the creative works to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.
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Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman (born December 10, 1985), sometimes credited as Raven, also known mononymously as Raven-Symoné, is an American actress, singer, songwriter, model, television personality, dancer, rapper and producer.
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Shermantown (Atlanta)
Shermantown was a late 19th-century African-American shantytown in what is now the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Slavery
Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.
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Sten Lex
Sten (born 1982, Rome) and Lex (born 1982, Taranto), known as Sten & Lex, are two Italian street artists.
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Street art in Atlanta
In recent years, Atlanta has become one of the USA's best cities for street art.
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Sweet Auburn Curb Market
The Sweet Auburn Curb Market is a historic municipal market located at 209 Edgewood Avenue, S.W., in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
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The Deserted Village
The Deserted Village is a poem by Oliver Goldsmith published in 1770.
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The Tams
The Tams are an American vocal group from Atlanta, Georgia, who enjoyed their greatest chart success in the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s.
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Urban decay
Urban decay (also known as urban rot and urban blight) is the process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.
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Usher (musician)
Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), is an American singer, songwriter and dancer.
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Walton County, Georgia
Walton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak
The 2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak was a tornado outbreak that affected the Southeastern United States on March 14–15, 2008.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Auburn
