90 years after many Black Triangle neighborhoods were redlined by the federal government, the process is now happening in reverse in many of the same communities long-distressed or historically black communities are now being transformed by gentrification.
It s happening in Raleigh and in Durham too. We used to have family reunions right here in this yard, said Jackie Manns Hill, from the backyard of a small cottage in Durham s Walltown neighborhood. It s the home built by Hill s ancestor George Wall; the community s namesake who built the first home here.
Hill thinks back fondly to the happy times she spent here as a child. She moved back to Walltown to retire in her grandmother s home a few blocks away from George Wall s homestead. But, the times in this historically-black neighborhood are changing fast.
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) The lines of housing discrimination in the Triangle were often drawn in red. ABC11 s month-long look at the past, present and future of Black history continues with an exploration of redlining and how the foundation of housing inequity was built here at home.
In Durham, part of that story can be told through ABC11 Anchor Joel Brown s very own family tree. To help tell the story of Durham s Walltown neighborhood, he drove there to see his cousins, Jackie Manns-Hill and Annie Smith Vample. All of them are descendants of Walltown s namesake, George Wall. This is your great great grandfather, George Wall and his second wife, Lily Wall, Manns-Hill said holding up a black and white photograph of Wall and his wife standing in front of his one-story wooden house with a brick chimney. The original homeplace that he built on Onslow Street when he worked at Trinity College before it became Duke University.
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