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The Following is a list of resources relating to the Germantown Area, most are about racial relations and community engagement.
Germantown has been a vibrant neighborhood, and still is today (in different ways).
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Germantown red-line

UNITED THEY LEND

Philadelphia Daily News (PA) - Tuesday, June 10, 1986

Keep in mind that many of the locations you are visiting are in former "red-line" areas, areas where banks would not lend money at all, or made it extremely difficult. I include this as a description of the ingenuity of Germantown-and other "disadvantaged" areas of Philadelphia.
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