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Guest's Corner: A piece of Paris history | Lifestyles


Decades of history, resilience and pride live at the intersection of 5th Street NE and East Tudor Street. Known to many as Guest’s Corner, the neighborhood was a bustling hub for the Black community in Paris dating back to the 1920s when Paris was segregated and Black residents and business owners founded a place for themselves in an often hostile environment.
“We called it ‘Little Black Paris,’” said Mary Desmond, who spent her youth at Guest’s Corner.
Paris native Elbert Desmond, Mary’s husband of 65 years, said the land was gifted to the community by a businessman, George Guest, for whom the neighborhood is named, in the early 20th century, and Black businesses began to flourish there through the 1950s. ....

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