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black belt
noun- a neighbourhood of black families that circles a city or area US
- But Washington’s Black Belt is no belt at all. It is sprawled all over[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 37, 1951
- He had got on the subway–there had been no subway in Chicago in the old days–and then had ridden out on the El, shooting along the express tracks, looking out at the same old deteriorating buildings of the Black Belt[.] — James T. Farrell, Kilroy was Here, p. 63, 1954
- Once they had gone together to a chicken shack in the black belt, hot-fried chicken-in-the-basket. — Chester Himes, The Primitive, p. 61, 1955
- The Black Belt is there. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 167, 1958
- Unlike other areas in the black belt, Macon County remained rela-tively free of overt acts of violence and intimidation during the forties and fifties. — Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power, p. 129, 1967
- Growing up in Hyde Park, the University of Chicago’s stockade on the edge of the Black Belt, Paul led a quietly schizzy life. — Albert Goldman, Freak Show, p. 105, 1968
- [T]he Black belt had the Blackstone Rangers, the largest gang of juvenile delinquents on earth[.] — Norman Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, p. 87, 1968
- There are more people starving in the U.S., in the Black Belt of southeastern U.S. in all the large cities, in the Appalachian Mountains and grape fields of California than in any other country on earth with the possible exception of India. — George Jackson, Soledad Brother, p. 261, April 1970
- To be able to go over into the black belt in the South Side of Chicago; there wasn’t anything then that knocked me out more. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 36, 1990
- in the US Army, a senior drill instructor US
Not a reference to martial arts, simply to the uniform. Vietnam war usage. - — Linda Reinberg, In the Field, p. 23, 1991
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