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[[File:Decatur Street 19020713 AC.jpg|thumb|300px|''[[Atlanta Constitution]]'' 1902 exposé on black nightlife in Decatur Street]]
'''Decatur Street''' is one of the original 7 streets of [[Atlanta, Georgia]]; it was also a famous (and infamous) entertainment area from the 1850s through the early 20th century.

==History==
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In 1854 the first theater in the city, the Athenaeum, opened on Decatur near Peachtree Street.

In the early 20th century, it included an [[African American]] entertainment district. In 1906 it was the trigger point of the [[Atlanta Race Riot]]; allegations that the street's dive bars, frequented by blacks, were showing nude pictures of white women and "troublesome Negro vagrants" were hanging around there were among the allegations whipping up anti-black sentiment among poor whites.

After the riot, the ''Atlanta Constitution'' regularly ran stories documenting city efforts to clean up the street's dance halls, saloons, and dives; [[ragtime|ragtime music]]; whiskey and drug peddling.

In 1909 the city nearly changed the name of the street to East Main Street in an effort to clean up the street's reputation.<ref>''Atlanta Constitution'', Dec. 28, 1909</ref>
At the start of the 1920s it was commemorated in the [[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]] song "Decatur Street Blues."

Today, Decatur Street cuts across the [[Georgia State University]] campus in the downtown area, while farther east it was part of a 1940s urban-renewal area that became [[Grady Homes]], which were demolished in 2005 and replaced by the Ashley Auburn Pointe [[Atlanta mixed-income communities|mixed-income community]], now considered part of the [[Sweet Auburn]] neighborhood as it is officially defined. Its span across the Georgia State University campus includes a [[skyway]] that connects the two sides of its [[Library of Congress Classification|LCC]]-collated library, with the southern side housing only one class: [[Library of Congress Classification:Class Q -- Science|Class Q -- Science]], and the northern side houses all the others.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Decatur Street Atlanta 1864.jpg|Decatur Street, late 1864
File:Decatur Street 19080110 AC.jpg|''Atlanta Constitution'' 1908 article about a proposal to "regenerate" Decatur Street
File:Decatur Street 19091228 AC.jpg|''Atlanta Constitution'' 1909 article about Decatur Street
File:Decatur Street 19120823 AC.jpg|''Atlanta Constitution'' 1912 article about Decatur Street
</gallery>

==See also==
* ((portal-inline|Georgia (U.S. state)))

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
* ((Commons category-inline|Decatur Street, Atlanta))
((Former Atlanta neighborhoods))
((Atlanta history))

[[Category:Roads in Atlanta]]
[[Category:Entertainment districts in the United States]]
[[Category:Streets of African American history]]

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