Memorializing Center Street, a beloved Black-owned business district and neighborhood in Des Moines : vimarsana.com

“There was a Black community on the east side, a Black community on the south side,” said Richard Duncan, who lived in the neighborhood when he was younger and is considered a historian by many who know Center Street. “But everyone came to Center Street.”

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