5775139 The Black Belt is a region of the U.S. state of Alabama. The term originally referred to the region's rich, black soil, much of it in the soil...

formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States Black Belt (region of Alabama), a geographic and socio-political region of Alabama Black Belt (region...

The Black Belt in the American South refers to the social history, especially concerning slavery and black workers, of the geological region known as the...

Press)[1] Winemiller,Terance L. "Black Belt Region in Alabama" Encyclopedia of Alabama (September 2009)[2] "Black Belt Prairie" NASA Earth Observatory[3]...

as the Black Belt Black Belt (region of Alabama), a section of Alabama (and extending into Mississippi) having a particular concentration of African-Americans...

Wilcox counties in the Black Belt region of Alabama. The Center for the Study of the Black Belt at the University of West Alabama serves as the local coordinating...

The Bible Belt is a region of the Southern United States and one Midwestern state, the state of Missouri, in all of which socially conservative Protestant...

of U.S. states and territories by African-American population List of U.S. cities with large Black populations Black Belt (region of Alabama) List of...

Recreation Sites Interactive Map of Park & Recreation Sites Encyclopedia of Alabama: Cultural Geography Encyclopedia of Alabama: Black Belt Region in Alabama...

Perry County is a county located in the Black Belt region in the central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8...

Sun Belt is a region of the United States generally considered stretching across the Southeast and Southwest. Another rough definition of the region is...

The Cotton Belt is a region of the Southern United States where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the late 18th century into the 20th century...

of the Alabama General Assembly on January 20, 1830. The county is named for South Carolina statesman William Lowndes. It is part of the Black Belt,...

high incidence of stroke and other forms of cardiovascular disease. It is usually defined as a 11-state region consisting of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia...

40% of those under age 18 and 36.10% of those age 65 or over. Sumter County is part of the so-called Black Belt region of central Alabama. The region has...

Americans in Alabama or Black Alabamians are residents of the state of Alabama who are of African American ancestry. They have a history in Alabama from the...

defined geographic region, it generally includes all Alabama counties south of the Black Belt. In that view, South Alabama consists of just the two counties...

were the nearby "Black Belt" counties of Bullock, Lowndes, Sumter, and Wilcox in Alabama, the majority-black Mississippi counties of Claiborne, Holmes...

first brought to Alabama when the region was part of the French Louisiana Colony. During the colonial era, Indian slavery in Alabama soon became surpassed...

is a historical region of west-central Alabama in the United States, which was once dominated by thickets of Arundinaria, a type of bamboo, or cane,...

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County is located in what has become known as the Black Belt region of the west-central portion of the state. The name referred to its fertile soil, and...

also within the Black Belt region. Demopolis was founded in the early 1800s after the fall of Napoleon's empire. It was named by a group of French expatriates...

Bavaria on December 3, 1800, during Napoleon's campaign. Situated in Alabama's Black Belt and having a naturally rich soil, the county was developed by planters...

Belt. The Black Belt has since become better known as a sociocultural region; in this context it is a term used for much of the Cotton Belt, which had...

considered within the Black Belt of the South. It has had a majority-black population since before the American Civil War. For thousands of years, this area...

Central Alabama is a region in the state of Alabama. It is sometimes considered part of North Alabama because both regions are mountainous, but in some...

by blacks. This is one of the reasons the black belt region started. The Black Belt of Chicago was the chain of neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago...

the home of the University of West Alabama. After leaving Livingston, the highway travels through the Black Belt region of Alabama, one of the state’s...

(2010) Online. Winemiller, Terance L. "Black Belt Region in Alabama" Encyclopedia of Alabama (2009) online Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association...