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Black Bottom, Philadelphia — Wikipedia

Wikipedia. 'Black Bottom, Philadelphia.'

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wikipedia-black-bottom-philadelphia
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Encyclopedia entry summarizing the boundaries (between 32nd and 40th Streets in West Philadelphia), the 1959 founding of the West Philadelphia Corporation by Penn, Drexel, the University of the Sciences, and Presbyterian Hospital, and displacement estimates ranging from 4,496 to over 15,000 residents during the Black Bottom’s mid-1960s clearance. Cites Dr. Walter Palmer’s Black Bottom Project as a primary source. Used in this casefile to triangulate displacement-figure ranges and to anchor the broader civic-noun usage of “Black Bottom” in West Philadelphia.

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2026-05-06

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