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Rooms for rent
Newspaper advertisement for rooms to be rented including Christian, Masters, and Locust Streets, among others.
Negro Homes More Widely Distributed In Philadelphia Than Elsewhere
Between 1917 and 1928, Philadelphia experienced an increase in African American home owners. Despite traditionally low wages for Black workers, this increase in home ownership reveals their determination to save whatever they could to settle their…
Colored Citizens Own Much Property: Don't Have to Live in Slum Dives and Dilapidated Shacks
This newspaper article details how black Philadephians now own more than eight million dollars worth of property. This has increased from one million dollars over the past 18 years, due to the Great Migration. Additionally, the article details…