Editor's note: During May, the staff of The Daily Advertiser, will bring you a series of articles that look at Lafayette and Acadiana’s past focused on segregation and racial inequities. We’ll give you an honest, fair and often uncomfortable view where we as a community have been and where we are today. Our hope is that in those uncomfortable moments we’ll find solutions and resolve to take concrete actions that will unite our community. On either side of University Avenue, just outside downtown Lafayette, a decades-long history of racial segregation is laid bare. The once vibrant Four Corners, where University Avenue meets Cameron Street, stands at the division of some of the city’s earliest neighborhoods, separated by race, as a visualization of the decline of Lafayette’s predominantly Black northside.