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[king lincoln district - history and facts]
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king lincoln district zip codes 43215 &
43203
Where did the King Lincoln and
Bronzeville Neighborhood Association (KLABNA) get its name?
Everyone knows that the Martin Luther King
Junior Arts Complex anchors the Northwest Border of our
Neighborhood Association and that the Lincoln Theater sits
squarely in the Southwest, but what, exactly, is Bronzeville?
Around the turn of the century, the eastside of
Columbus was, essentially, a segregated African-American
community within the state capital.
Its original residents were descendants of
runaway slaves and free blacks who found their way to Franklin
County before the Civil War.
At the turn of the twentieth century, because of
racism, southern crop failure, and the lure of jobs, a second
wave of African-Americans traveled north to cities like
Columbus.
The northern migration continued for most of the
twentieth century. In the early 1900s, African-Americans
established a business district on East Long Street. They built
churches, homes, and theaters in the surrounding areas. Children
from the region were not encouraged to integrate into the
Columbus Public Schools. The name "Bronzeville" in Chicago and
was borrowed by African-Americans in Columbus.
In 1909, Columbus developed the first of five
completely segregated schools in Bronzeville neighborhoods.
These schools were taught and attended by African-Americans
only. By 1950, all residents within the Bronzeville boundaries
were African-Americans. With the I-71 highway project, the
neighborhood was cut in half. In the late 1990s, Reverend
William-Amanze M. Pinckney revived the name and started a
neighborhood association which has since turned into the
King-Lincoln Bronzeville Neighborhood Association.
Today the neighborhood is made up of an exciting
and eclectic community well aware of the rich history of our
community. Today Bronzeville is black, white, straight, gay,
rich and poor. These aren't polar opposites here, they are one
face on a diverse community that is primed to reclaim our prized
urban legacy.
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