Prohibited from patronizing white restaurants, movie theaters, and personal service establishments, blacks developed businesses in those areas to serve their community.

They also offered professional services (medical and legal) to the black community.

Although now somewhat diminished by the demolition of some structures and the dispersal of black life that has come with integration and suburban expansion, important structures remain which document what was once the center of commercial activity in black Birmingham.

"[2] It includes works by architects Robert R. Taylor, Louis H. Persley, Walter T. Woods and others.

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