CENTRAL LOCATION: 12th and Jefferson Streets

BOUNDARIES: Girard Avenue to Cecil B. Moore Avenue (formerly Columbia Avenue) and 10th Street to 13th Street

Construction of a residential community of more than 600 homes during the 1960s, as the result of planning and organizing by a coalition of African-American churches and civic groups.

Yorktown home driveway with residents
   

 

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