Walking tour explores history of Gary’s Midtown

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Walking tour explores history of Gary’s Midtown

… which was the largest African American cooperative in the country … It was the largest African American grocery store in the … Preservation, said the first African Americans came from Pittsburgh to … father opened the first African American art gallery at 1900 …

Source: The Times of Northwest Indiana | Munster, IN | nwitimes.com

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