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This is the 1809 Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah, Kentucky, that served as a welcome hostel for black visitors to the city before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War, when slavery and then rigid racial segregation prevailed in many parts of the mid-South

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2020 07 15.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. America
  3. B.B. King
  4. Cab Calloway
  5. Chitlin Circuit
  6. Color
  7. Digital Photographs
  8. Duke Ellington
  9. Hotel Metropolitan
  10. Kentucky
  11. Louis Armstrong
  12. Mc Cracken County
  13. Ohio River
  14. Paducah
  15. Paducah African American Museum
  16. Tennessee River
  17. United States

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