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darktown
noun
a neighbourhood populated largely by black people US, 1916- The black ghettos of the “Darktown” slums in every Southern city were the consequence mainly of hte Negro’s economic status, his relegation to the lowest rung of the ladder. — C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 1974 “It might be a window peeper who’s been working Darktown lately.” — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 54, 1992 Lorenzo had guessed as much, Gannon being the mostly white blue-collar town bordering the so-called Darktown section of Dempsy. — Richard Price, Freedomland, p. 37, 1998
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