Dr. James Sistrunk helped build a thriving community in Broward County — a local Black Wall Street.
The history of these districts is a history of both extraordinary Black achievement and the structural forces that repeatedly extracted or destroyed the wealth they created.
Remembering them is not nostalgia. It is evidence of what was possible, and a map of where the groundwater was poisoned.
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