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Princeville, NC: The First Black Town They Tried to Erase
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Princeville, North Carolina is the first Black-incorporated town in America — born in 1885, carved from land no one else wanted. But from floods to federal betrayal, it has faced centuries of attempts to erase it.
This is the story of how freedom became a floodplain, how promises were engineered to fail, and why Princeville still stands today.
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