Ben Hill is a predominantly black community with many black-owned businesses.
The last black-owned business closed in the 1970s, when the street was bulldozed and replaced with the park.
He also publicly advocated more support for black-owned businesses in the area.
Pass this jobs bill, and every small business owner in America, including 100,000 black-owned businesses, will get a tax cut.
Demonstrators have complained about the lack of black-owned businesses in the area.
I've even had journalists decline to write about a client because it was a black-owned business.
As the campaign notes, the Clinton administration has made a concerted effort to create new, black-owned businesses.
Within a few years it would become one of the most prominent black-owned businesses in the South.
From then through the 1960s, the area was dominated by black-owned businesses, churches and social centers.
Beginning in the 1950's, the neighborhood went into decline, and many black-owned businesses moved to 125th Street.