Chatham, Ontario
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Chatham is an unincorporated community and the most populous settlement in the municipality of Chatham-Kent in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Formerly an independent city within Kent County, Chatham wa
Downtown Chatham
First Presbyterian Church
Kiwanis Theatre
Kingston Park
Black mecca
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A black mecca, in the United States, is a city to which African Americans, particularly singles, professionals, and middle-class families, are drawn to live, due to some or all of the following factor
Chatham, Ontario
…one of the major termini of the Underground Railroad and as a site of intense abolitionist activity—a role for which it has sometimes been called the "Black Mecca of Canada". Following the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, Britain's colonies in Canada became a safe haven for Black people fleeing…
New York City was considered the first Black mecca
1971 Ebony magazine portraying Atlanta as a Black Mecca
Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta
"Harlem, Mecca of the New Negro", March 1925 issue of Survey Graphic