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Rapp Road and the Great Migration

Categories: History, NYS History, People

On this episode of A New York Minute In History podcast, hosts Devin and Lauren delve into the history of Albany County’s Rapp Road Community, an African American neighborhood built by southern immigrants who moved north for a better life in the late 1920s. The Rapp Road Community Historic District was designated to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.