Racist City Directories: 1870–1960
Is the letter “C” behind your name in City Phone Directory?
6 min readMar 10, 2023
Did you know there was once the letter C after every Colored/Black name and/or business in the phone book of eleven states: Alabama, Parts of Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D. C., and West Virginia?
