West Ninth Street

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West Ninth Street in Little Rock, Arkansas (Pulaski County) is a Historic Black business district and surrounding neighborhood. Today the district is largely derelict due to Urban Renewal and the Interstate 630 project.

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Bush, A. E., and P. L. Dorman. History of the Mosaic Templars of America: Its Founders and Officials. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008.

Lost West Ninth Street. Roberts Library of Arkansas History and Art, Central Arkansas Library System. https://robertslibrary.org/lost-west-ninth-street/ (accessed November 4, 2021).

Love, Berna J. End of the Line: A History of Little Rock's West Ninth Street. Little Rock: Center for Arkansas Studies, 2003.

Smith, Shanika. “The Success and Decline of Little Rock’s West Ninth Street.” Pulaski County Historical Review 67 (Summer 2019): 41–50.

Sorrows, Devin Matthew. “Life along the Color Line in Little Rock: An Archeological Investigation of Two Sites on South Arch Street.” MA thesis, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2019.

———. “Memory Unearthed: An Archeological Investigation of Two Sites on Little Rock’s Historic West Ninth Street.” Pulaski County Historical Review 68 (Fall 2020): 66–70.

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