“Although Lincolnsville was primarily a residential community, there were a number of key black-owned businesses and organizations that provided for the commercial and social needs of its inhabitants. Locals and immigrants were the mainstay of the Lincolnsville community, especially those who were employed at the shipyard or were professionals such as teachers, lawyers, and physicians. … In the late 1950s, Portsmouth’s’ city council hose the community as it first urban renewal project. Residents were prohibited from improving their residences. Instead the city chose to level this community that functioned as a city within a city with its own professional, trade, and working classes.”
Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Mae Breckenridge-Haywood, and the African American Historical Society of Portsmouth. Portsmouth, Virginia (Black America Series). Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2003, page 51.
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