EXCERPTS FROM "EMERALD STREET: A HISTORY OF HIP HOP IN SEATTLE" BY DAUDI ABE
Any discussion about the roots of Seattle hip-hop must begin in the Central District (CD), the traditional home of Seattle’s African American community. As Dr. Quintard Taylor wrote in his book, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era , “Black Seattle through much of the twentieth century was synonymous with the Central District, a four-square-mile section near the geographic center of the isthmus that constitutes the city.” Although...
