Darktown was an African-American neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia.
Darktown was characterized in the 1930s as a "hell-hole of squalor, degradation, sickness, crime and misery".
The term "darktown" was also used generically in Atlanta and the rest of the South to refer to African-American districts.
Currier and Ives produced a series of popular racist-caricature lithographs under the title Darktown Comics, ostensibly set in a Black town.
[3][4][5][6] It is used as such in the title of the famous song "Darktown Strutters' Ball" and 1899 Charles Hale song At a Darktown Cakewalk.