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46 of Alabama's 80 majority-African American municipalities (57.5%) are located within the Black Belt. As of the 2000 census, [6] Alabama's 18-county Black Belt region had a population of 589,041 (13.25% of the state's total population).
The Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area includes several natural landmarks. The entirety of Tuskegee National Forest is located in Macon County, while Talladega National Forest overlaps with part of the heritage area in Bibb, Perry, Hale and Dallas counties. Part of the Bartram Trail runs through the Tuskegee National Forest.
The Reference Book on Regional Well-Being: U.S. Regions, the Black Belt, Appalachia. (Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State University, 1996) online. Highly detailed Statistics from 1990 census. Winemiller, Terance L. "Black Belt Region in Alabama" Encyclopedia of Alabama (2009) online; Yafa, Stephen.
Largest ancestry groups in Alabama by county [14] [15] Historically, African Americans were brought to Alabama as slaves, in greatest numbers in the cotton-producing plantation region known as the Black Belt. This region remains predominantly African American, where many freedmen settled to work at agriculture after the Civil War.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, argued that the new map kept communities of interest intact, unifying the state’s so-called Black Belt, named for its fertile black soil.
Pages in category "Black Belt (U.S. region)" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total. ... Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area; Allendale ...
Gee's Bend (officially called Boykin) is an isolated, rural community of about seven hundred residents, southwest of Selma, in the Black Belt of Alabama.The area is named after Joseph Gee, a planter from North Carolina who acquired 6,000 acres of land and established a cotton plantation in 1816 with seventeen enslaved people.
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