Well into the twentieth century, pockets of African-American residents were scattered across the western side of Wilson. This map will help you visualize the locations of these communities should you see their names.
residential segregation
A good bargain for some thrifty colored person.
Wilson Daily Times, 4 November 1944.
Residential segregation did not happen organically. By the early 1900s, specific areas of Wilson were designated colored (white was default), and realtors like George A. Barfoot sold the houses within them accordingly. (Barfoot, C.C. Powell, and other white realtors came to own large swaths of housing in East Wilson as a result of wide-scale loan defaults by Black property owners during the Depression.) By the 1920s, several pockets of African-American settlement west of the A.C.L. railroad and north of Hines Street were deliberately cleared to make way for upscale white neighborhoods, creating strict residential segregation patterns that held for much of the rest of the 20th century.